The missing person is the person who is absent from his/her habitual place of residence for which his/her whereabouts are unknown. Disappearances with a social phenomenon, but not political, that may or may not be related to cases of human trafficking. This is because any missing person can be a potential victim of exploitation.
The National Registry of Information on Missing Persons, created by Law No. 28022, is a capital tool for the fight against this phenomenon.
The objective of this Registry is: “to centralize and organize the information of the whole country in a database that contains unified information about those missing persons and those that were located”.
It is the only tool available in Peru to centralize information related to missing persons.
The State must not neglect the search for any missing person. Through the location of these people, networks of human traffickers can be discovered and dismantled.