A/HRC/37/8 Introduction 1. The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, held its twenty-eighth session from 6 to 17 November 2017. The review of Peru was held at the 5th meeting, on 8 November 2017. The delegation of Peru was headed by Vice-Minister of Human Rights and Access to Justice of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Jose Manuel Coloma Marquina. At its 10th meeting, held on 10 November 2017, the Working Group adopted the report on Peru. 2. On 13 February 2017, the Human Rights Council selected the following group of rapporteurs (troika) to facilitate the review of Peru: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Japan and Portugal.1 3. In accordance with paragraph 15 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 and paragraph 5 of the annex to Council resolution 16/21, the following documents were issued for the review of Peru: (a) A national report submitted/written presentation made in accordance with paragraph 15 (a) (A/HRC/WG.6/28/PER/1); (b) A compilation prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in accordance with paragraph 15 (b) (A/HRC/WG.6/28/PER/2); (c) A summary prepared by OHCHR in accordance with paragraph 15 (c) (A/HRC/WG.6/28/PER/3). 4. A list of questions prepared in advance by Belgium, Brazil, Czechia, Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Uruguay was transmitted to Peru through the troika. These questions are available on the extranet of the universal periodic review. I. Summary of the proceedings of the review process A. Presentation by the State under review 5. The head of the delegation noted that Peru was a country that in recent years had developed important efforts to guarantee to its citizens the widest and most effective enjoyment of their fundamental human rights and recognized the political and ethical need to continue to deepen and improve those efforts to overcome the differences and social gaps that still existed in the country. 6. The human rights policy of Peru was a State policy that transcended the temporal scope of its Governments. He noted that the Government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, which had taken office in July 2016, had focused on giving continuity to those policies that had been working and improving policies or formulating new ones where necessary. 7. The national report had been prepared with the participation of all State institutions in charge of implementing the recommendations received during the previous universal periodic review, in 2012. It noted that, although the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights 1 2 At the 25th meeting of the Human Rights Council, held on 22 September 2017, during the thirty-sixth session, under agenda item 6 entitled “Universal periodic review”, the President of the Council asked the Council to consider the agreement reached by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Peru, Sri Lanka and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as outlined in a letter from the Plurinational State of Bolivia dated 20 September 2017, that the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would exchange places in their respective troikas. The Council approved the change in the composition of the troikas of Peru and Sri Lanka, which had initially been selected at the organizational meeting of the Council, held on 13 February 2017.