1. Report of the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty. A/64/279 dated 11 August 2009, Para. 23.

2. General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/2009. Adopted during the Sixtieth Session. 22 December 2005.

3. INEI. Press Release No. 063, May 2009.

4. Population and Development Series. International migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: trends and profiles of migrants. Series No. 35, CEPAL, Santiago, 2003, Pg.17

5. Source: Peruvian Directorate General of Immigration and Naturalization (DIGEMIN) the Computing and Statistics Unit.

6. General Assembly Resolution A/RES/63/117

7. Resolution AG/RES. 2074 (XXXV-O/05) of 07 June

(The author is Undersecretary for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru)