Peru report

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Freedom House welcomes the decision of the Peruvian Congress to repeal a legislative decree that threatened to consolidate impunity for human rights violations and commends Peruvian human rights organizations and the local media for their efforts to prevent the implementation of this policy. Legislative Decree 1097 allowed for a statute of limitations in cases of alleged crimes committed by the military during Peru’s brutal internal conflict. A majority of these cases remain stagnant, often due to the refusal of the military to provide key information needed to advance the proceedings.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/article/repeal-decree-law-peru-win-human-rights

Freedom House: Repeal of Decree Law in Peru A Win for Human Rights

http://www.idea.int/vt/country_view.cfm?CountryCode=PE

The table below shows the statistics from recent elections in Peru.

Voter turnout data for Peru (Parliamentary, Presidential) | Voter Turnout | International IDEA

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Peru is an electoral democracy. Elections in 2006 were generally free and fair, according to international observers. Complaints focused on poor logistics and information distribution in rural areas, as well as the disenfranchisement of the roughly one million Peruvians who lacked identification documents.

Freedom House: Freedom in the World 2011 - Peru

http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2011/peru

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With governments committing huge sums to tackle the world's most pressing problems, from the instability of financial markets to climate change and poverty, corruption remains an obstacle to achieving much needed progress. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).

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