A/HRC/22/15 8. Peru also informed the Human Rights Council of the creation of various institutions which should help to ensure various human rights. These included the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion; the Ministry of Culture, and its Vice-Ministry of Interculturality; the Ministry of the Environment; and the Office of Management of Social Conflict, which now functions under a new title, “Office of the High Commissioner for Dialogue and Sustainability”. 9. Peru expressed its confidence that the creation of these institutions would result in the provision of more efficient and inclusive services and contribute to a more just and coherent society. 10. Peru then provided information regarding recommendations received during the first UPR. the implementation of the 11. On the protection and promotion of the human rights of vulnerable persons, Peru highlighted developments in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and the elderly. 12. With regards to indigenous peoples, it underscored the adoption, in 2011, of the Act on the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation (hereinafter, Prior Consultation Act) and the corresponding regulations, both of which were realized with the participation of representatives of indigenous peoples. 13. Peru also informed the Council that the Plan for Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities 2009–2018 had been approved and that the Congress was also debating a new Law on Persons with Disabilities, inspired by the United Nations convention. 14. Peru noted that a national policy on older persons had been adopted to strengthen policies for the social protection of this population group. A national assistance and solidarity programme, “Pension 65”, was set up with the aim of giving economic subsidies and medical aid to people over 65 living in extreme poverty. 15. Peru provided information on measures adopted to combat discrimination and stated that since 2000 the offence of discrimination was included in the Peruvian Penal Code. 16. With regard to the de facto moratorium on the death penalty, Peru highlighted that the Constitution established the death penalty solely for especially grave offences (terrorism and betrayal of the nation in time of war). It was recalled that the death penalty was last pronounced and carried out in 1979 and that, in that sense, the country was de facto an abolitionist State. 17. Regarding the investigation of cases of human rights violations, Peru stated, that since 2004, the Public Prosecution Service and the judicial power had been using specialized human rights machinery with competence to investigate, prosecute and penalize the crimes of genocide, forced disappearance and torture. From 2005 to 2011, 81 sentences had been handed down by the National Criminal Court. 18. Additionally, major progress has been made in recovering, identifying and restoring to family members the bodies of victims of forced disappearance and extrajudicial execution. From 2002 to 2012, the remains of 2,109 individuals had been recovered, of which 1,074 had been identified and returned to family members. 19. Peru also underscored that the Supreme Court had found that former President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori bore criminal responsibility for the killings in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, and sentenced him to 25 years of deprivation of liberty in a procedure which respected all rules of due process. This sentence was a landmark decision in the protection of human rights and the fight against impunity, as it is the first time in Peru or Latin America that a former president, democratically elected had been found guilty of human rights violations under the domestic judicial system. 4