E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.4 page 13 prevent trafficking in persons. The Cross-sectoral Standing Working Group on Trafficking in Persons19 was also established; its duties include coordinating action to prevent trafficking, promoting the adoption of preventive measures and measures to protect victims and witnesses, and proposing legislative measures for effectively suppressing trafficking. Act No. 28.251 of 7 June 2004 amended article 182 of the Criminal Code and established prison sentences of 5 to 10 years for promoting or facilitating “the recruitment of a person for the purposes of leaving or entering the country or of relocating within the territory of the Republic with a view to having them engage in prostitution, or submitting them to sexual slavery, pornography or other forms of sexual exploitation”. The prison sentence is between 10 and 12 years when one of the following aggravating circumstances exists: the victim is under 18 years of age; violence, threats or abuse are employed; the victim is a spouse, child or grandchild or other relative; or the victim is handed over to a procurer.20 45. The Special Rapporteur was given no official data about trafficking in persons in Peru, but she observed that the attention given by the Peruvian media to an obscure incident in Gabon involving Ms. Ivette Santa María Carty (Miss Peru) had sparked off a public debate on this type of crime. 46. During her visit, the Special Rapporteur had the occasion to meet Ms. Y.O., a 31-year-old Peruvian, who said that she had travelled to Japan in 1998 to work in a plastics company and once there had been forced into prostitution. She had been able to escape but claimed that the Peruvian consular authorities in Japan had told her that they could not give her financial assistance to return to Peru, and had advised her to contact her family. Once back in Peru, Y.O., had been duped by a television channel (Canal 5) into describing her case in exchange for protection. When the Panorama programme was broadcast again, on 4 April 2004, her face had been shown and she had been identified by name without her consent. After this, the Minister for Women had announced that the Ministry for Women and Social Development would provide Y.O. and her family with protection. In a letter dated 3 September 2004 sent to the Ombudsman, however, Y.O. said that she feared for her life since she had been located by the Yakuza, the criminal organization which had captured her, and complained that she felt “completely abandoned” by a State that afforded her no help or protection. She felt that the authorities and security forces had only taken an interest in her case in order to obtain information. 47. The Tacna Prosecutor’s Office reported the existence of employment agencies in the city which used bogus offers of domestic employment to recruit young women who would subsequently be forced into prostitution in Arica and Iquique (both in Chile). The Special Rapporteur was also informed about disappearances of children in rural areas such as Ayacucho, as reported by the Asociación Bartolomé Aripaylla early in 2004. 48. The office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Lima informed the Special Rapporteur about its programmes and activities to support the Peruvian Government in combating trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants. The Organization had prepared, inter alia, a project on international trafficking in women from the Andean region for exploitation in the sex industry, which included investigation activities and a free phone-in service. Through this service, IOM and the NGO Movimiento el Pozo had been advising victims and their families since January 2004 and received complaints of cases of trafficking in women.