E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.4 page 21 11 Retailers, principally of Aymara origin, who deal in foodstuffs and other items on both sides of the border in accordance with the 1929 Treaty on the Transit of Goods between Tacna and Arica. 12 Adopted by Ministerial Decision No. 1197 of 8 November 2002 (http://www.rree.gob.pe/portal/misrree.nsf/CC5496D58B83899F05256D100064966B). 13 The administrative area of the Peruvian consulate in Geneva includes these three cantons, where it is estimated that 10,000 Peruvians are living. 14 The other activities of this council include the preparation of a useful guide to the protection of Peruvian maids abroad, which was circulated by the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all consulates and advisory councils. 15 This problem was publicly acknowledged by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, when he maintained that diplomatic officials should abandon the notion of the consul as prefect and adopt that of the consul as public servant. Source: press release No. 217-04 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 16 Act No. 28182 of 23 February 2004. 17 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs nevertheless adopted a new Table of Consular Fees (Supreme Decree No. 045-2003-RE) on 26 February 2003, which would seem to have considerably reduced the fees for migration formalities and civil status documents for Peruvians abroad. 18 In 60 per cent of cases of trafficking in children false birth certificates were presented, in 30 per cent authorizations to third parties to process children’s passports were bogus and in 10 per cent other documents, such as the national identity document, were counterfeit. 19 Established recently by Supreme Decree No. 002-2004-IN and composed of representatives of the ministries of the interior, women and social development, health, justice, education, labour and the promotion of employment, and foreign affairs, and two representatives of civil-society institutions specializing in this area. The Ministry of the Interior provides the Working Group with the technical secretariat that implements the Group’s decisions. 20 See also articles 153, 153-A, 179-A and 181-A of the Criminal Code. The Constitution of Peru, in article 2, paragraph 24 (b), prohibits trafficking in persons in any of its forms. 21 Article 27 of Legislative Decree No. 370, Ministry of the Interior Organization Act, adopted on 4 February 1986. 22 Legislative Decree No. 703 of 11 May 1991. 23 They must also comply with the requirements of article 8 of the legislative decision. 24 In 2004, the growth rate was 13.3 per cent.