Article 129-C on Sexual Exploitation prohibits the use of violence, threats, deception, manipulation, or other means to force a person to engage in sexual acts with the intent to receive an economic or other benefit. The crime is punishable by 10 to 15 years imprisonment. Aggravating circumstances include committing the crime as part of the tourism industry or where the victim is under the perpetrator’s care or authority. 

Article 129-A of the Peruvian Penal Code prohibits the use of violence, threats, coercion, fraud, deception, abuse of power, or the receipt of any benefits in order to capture, transport, keep or retain another person with the intent to exploit them. The crime is punishable by 8 to 15 years imprisonment. When the crime is committed against a child, it is punishable even if the perpetrator did not use any of the prohibited means listed.

Peruvian Penal Code Title I: Crimes Against Life, Body, and Health, Chapter III: Injuries, Article 122-B: Aggression Against Women or Family Members, prohibits causing bodily injuries that require less than 10 days of medical assistance, or causing any psychological “affectation” that does not qualify as psychological damage, to a woman due to her status as such. The crime is punishable by 1 to 3 years imprisonment and disqualification from professional or other positions.

Law No. 30367 modifies Article 29 of Legislative Decree No. 728, nullifying all employment terminations motivated by pregnancy, childbirth, or lactation if the termination occurs during the pregnancy or within 90 days of the child’s birth. An employer is presumed to have terminated the employee based on the employee’s pregnancy if the employer has no justification for the employee’s termination and was notified of the pregnancy.

The objective of Law No. 30364 is to prevent, eradicate, and penalize all forms of violence against women and family group members, especially those who are particularly vulnerable because of their age or physical attributes (e.g., children, adolescents, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities).

The objective of Law No. 30709 is to prohibit pay discrimination between men and women who have the same type of job. The law requires companies to keep charts detailing job categories, operations, and applicable payment. It recognizes that an employer must guarantee dignified work and a nondiscriminatory work environment. It also specifies that employers must guarantee protection against sexual harassment.

Law 28983 aims to provide a general framework for enacting national policies and legislation that protects women’s right to equality and dignity, and prohibits discrimination in all spheres of life. The law provides that the executive branch shall adopt policies, plans and programs directed at preventing and eliminating violence against women. (Article 6c).

In the case of Bouton v. France, the applicant, a feminist activist who was a member of Femen, was convicted and given a one-month suspended prison sentence (i.e. with probation) for staging a topless protest in a church in December 2013, exposing her breasts with slogans daubed over them, as part of an international action against the Catholic Church’s position on abortion. She was also ordered to pay the parish representative 2,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damages and to pay EUR 1,500 towards the other party’s costs.

In the ECHR Case Drelon v. France, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled on the case of a blood donor in France who refused to answer questions about his sex life, resulting in his exclusion from donation on the grounds of a factor of ineligibility associated with homosexuality. The ECHR ruled that the collection and storage of personal data by the Établissement Français du Sang, based on speculation and lacking any proven factual basis, was a violation of the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

ECHR, Case of A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France, Strasbourg 6 April 2017, (Applications N° 79885/12, 52471/13 et 52596/13) (On French authorities' refusal to allow three transgender individuals to change the gender marker on their birth certificate without having undergone sterilization surgery).