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Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Peru)

{{Short description|Government ministry of Peru}}

{{Infobox government agency

| agency_name = Ministry of Justice and Human Rights

| nativename_a = {{lang|es|Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos}}

| logo = PCM-Justicia.png

| logo_size = 250px

| picture_width = 250px

| picture = Fiscal de la Nación asiste a sétima reunión del Acuerdo Nacional por la Justicia (34277867364).jpg

| formed = {{start date and age|df=yes|1826}}

| headquarters = 350 Scipión Llona, Miraflores, Lima

| minister1_name = {{ill|Eduardo Arana Ysa|es}}

| website = {{url|https://www.gob.pe/minjus}}

}}{{Politics of Peru}}

The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights ({{langx|es|Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos}}, MINJUSDH) of Peru is the government ministry charged with advising the President of Peru in judicial matters. The ministry is responsible of the national prison system as well as the state's relationship with the Roman Catholic Church in Peru.

{{as of|2023|9|6}}, the minister of justice is {{ill|Eduardo Arana Ysa|es}}.

History

In 2011, a Vice Ministry for Human Rights was created, resulting in the ministry adopting its current name.{{Cite news |title=Se aprobó crear Viceministerio de Derechos Humanos: sepa cómo funcionará |last=Huerto Amado |first=Hans |date=2011-12-01 |url=http://elcomercio.pe/politica/1342126/noticia-se-aprobo-crear-viceministerio-derechos-humanos-sepa-como-funcionara |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202214131/http://elcomercio.pe/politica/1342126/noticia-se-aprobo-crear-viceministerio-derechos-humanos-sepa-como-funcionara |archive-date=2011-12-02 |work=El Comercio}}

Organisation

  • General Secretariat
  • Vice Ministry of Justice
  • Directorate-General of Regulatory Development and Regulatory Quality
  • Directorate-General of Criminological Affairs
  • Directorate-General of Justice and Religious Freedom
  • Directorate-General of Transparency, Access to Public Information, and Personal Data Protection
  • Vice Ministry of Human Rights and Access to Justice
  • Directorate-General of Public Defense and Access to Justice
  • Directorate-General of Human Rights
  • Directorate-General for the Search for Missing Persons

Entities administered by the ministry include:

List of ministers

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! Minister!! Term!! President

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Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs (1845–1852)
José Gregorio Paz-Soldán y Ureta1845–1848rowspan="4" |Ramón Castilla
Matías León Cárdenas1848
Felipe Pardo y Aliaga1848–1849
Manuel Bartolomé Ferreyros de la Mata1849
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Ministers of Justice, Instruction, Charity and Ecclesiastical Affairs (1852–1856)
Bartolomé Herrera Vélez1851–1852rowspan="7" |José Rufino Echenique
Agustín Guillermo Charún1852–1853
José Manuel Tirado1853
José Luis Gómez-Sánchez Rivero1853
Blas José Alzamora Seminario1854–1855
Pedro Gálvez Egúsquiza1855
Juan Manuel del Mar Bernedo1855
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Ministers of Justice, Instruction and Charity (1856–1862)
Jervasio Álvarez y Montaño1856–1857rowspan="4" |Ramón Castilla
Luciano María Cano y Dávila1857–1859
José Fabio Melgar Valdivieso1859–1860
Juan Oviedo1860–1862
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Ministers of Justice, Instruction, Worship and Charity (1862–1896)
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Manuel Pablo Olaechea1896–1897rowspan=3| Nicolás de Piérola
José Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo1897–1898
José Jorge Loayza1898–1899
Eleodoro Romero Salcedo1899–1900rowspan=8| Eduardo López de Romaña
Ezequiel Vega1900
Pedro Carlos Olaechea1900
Rafael Villanueva Cortez1900–1901
Anselmo Barreto León1901
Lizardo Alzamora Mayo1901–1902
José Viterbo Arias1902
Telémaco Orihuela1902
Francisco José Eguiguren Escudero1903–1904Manuel Candamo
Jorge Polar Vargas1904–1906rowspan=2| José Pardo
(1.º gov.)
Carlos A. Washburn Salas1906–1908
Manuel Vicente Villarán Godoy1908–1909rowspan=5| Augusto B. Leguía
(1.º gov.)
Matías León Baltazara1909–1910
Antonio Flores Rondón1910
José Salvador Cavero Ovalle1910
Antonio Flores Rondón1910
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Ministers of Justice, Instruction, Worship and Charity (1911–1935)
Agustín G. Ganoza y Cavero1911–1912Augusto B. Leguía
(1.º gov.)
Francisco Moreyra y Riglos1912–1913rowspan=3| Guillermo Billinghurst
Alfredo Solf y Muro1913
Carlos Paz Soldán y Benavides1913–1914
Rafael Grau Cavero1914rowspan=5| Óscar R. Benavides
(1.º gov.)
Luis Julio Menéndez1914
Aurelio Sousa y Matute1914
Daniel Isaac Castillo1914–1915
Plácido Jiménez1915
Wenceslao Valera Olano1915–1917rowspan=4| José Pardo
(2.º gov.)
Ricardo L. Flores Gaviño1917–1918
Ángel Gustavo Cornejo Bouroncle1918–1919
Federico Panizo Orbegoso1919
Arturo Osores Cabrera1919rowspan=8| Augusto B. Leguía
(2.º gov.)
Alberto Salomón Osorio1919–1920
Óscar C. Barrós Mesinas1920–1922
Julio E. Ego-Aguirre1922–1924
Alejandrino Maguiña1924–1926
Pedro M. Oliveira1926–1929
J. Matías León Carrera1929–1930
José Angel Escalante1930
Arturo Zapata Vélez1930Manuel M. Ponce B.
(Junta Militar)
Armando Sologuren1930rowspan=3| Luis Sánchez Cerro
(Junta Militar)
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero1930–1931
Elías Lozada Benavente1931
José Gálvez Barrenechea1931rowspan=2| David Samanez Ocampo
(Junta Nacional)
Guillermo Garrido Lecca1931–1932
Eufrasio Álvarez1932rowspan=5| Luis Sánchez Cerro
Carlos Sayán Álvarez1932
Ricardo Rivadeneira Barnuevo1932
Alberto Ballón Landa1932
Wenceslao Delgado1932
Wenceslao Delgado1932–1933rowspan=6| Óscar R. Benavides
(2.º gov.)
Daniel Olaechea y Olaechea1933
José de la Riva Agüero y Osma1933–1934
Alberto Rey de Castro y Romaña1934
Carlos Arenas y Loayza1934–1935
Ernesto Montagne Markholz1935
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Ministers of Justice and Worship (1935–1942)
Wenceslao Delgado1935–1936rowspan=6| Óscar R. Benavides
(2.º gov.)
Diómedes Arias Schreiber1936
Felipe de la Barra1936–1937
Diómedes Arias Schreiber1937–1939
Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen1939
José Félix Aramburú y Salinas1939
Mariano Lino Cornejo1939–1942Manuel Prado Ugarteche
(1.º gov.)
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Ministers of Ministers of Justice and Labour (1942–1949)
Mariano Lino Cornejo1939–1943rowspan="3" |Manuel Prado Ugarteche
(1.º gov.)
Manuel C. Gallagher y Canaval1943–1944
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez1944–1945
Luis Alayza y Paz Soldán1945rowspan="6" |José Luis Bustamante y Rivero
Ismael Bielich Flores1945–1947
José R. Alzamora Freundt1947
Armando Artola del Pozo1947–1948
Alejandro Villalobos Carranza1948
José León Barandiarán1948
Marcial Merino1948–1949rowspan="2" | Junta Militar
Armando Artola del Pozo1949
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Ministers of Justice and Worship (1949–1981)
Augusto Romero Lovo1949–1950Junta Militar
Alberto Freundt Rosell1950–1952rowspan="3" |Manuel A. Odría
Alejandro Freundt Rosell1952–1955
Félix Huamán Izquierdo1955–1956
Augusto Thorndike Galup1956–1958rowspan="6" |Manuel Prado Ugarteche
(2.º gov.)
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez1958
Ulises Montoya Manfredi1958–1959
Raúl Gómez de la Torre Tamayo1959–1960
José Merino Reyna1960–1961
Geraldo Arosemena Garland1961–1962
Juan Orrego Aguinaga1962–1963Junta de govierno
Luis Bedoya Reyes1963rowspan="11" |Fernando Belaunde Terry
(1.º gov.)
Emilio Llosa Ricketts1963–1965
Carlos Fernández Sesarego1965
Valentín Paniagua Corazao1965–1966
Roberto Ramírez del Villar Beaumont1966
Javier de Belaúnde Ruiz de Somocurcio1966–1967
Luis Rodríguez Mariátegui Proaño1967
José Morales Urresti1967–1968
Luis Lazarte Ferreyros1968
Guillermo Hoyos Osores1968
Elías Mendoza Habersperger1968
Alfonso Navarro Romero1968–1969rowspan="2" |Juan Velasco Alvarado
Luis Vargas Caballero1969–1975
Felipe Osterling Parodi1980–1981Fernando Belaunde Terry
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Ministers of Justice (1981–2011)
Enrique Elías Laroza1981–1982rowspan="5" |Fernando Belaunde Terry
(2.º gov.)
Armando Buendía Gutiérrez1982–1983
Ernesto Alayza Grundy1983–1984
Max Arias-Schreiber Pezet1984
Alberto Musso Vento1984–1985
Luis Gonzales Posada1985–1986rowspan="7" |Alan García
(1.º gov.)
Carlos Blancas Bustamante1986–1988
Gonzalo Durand Aspíllaga1988
Camilo Carrillo Gómez1988
César Delgado Barreto1988–1989
María Bockos Heredia de Grillo [1st female]1989–1990
Joffré Fernández Valdivieso1990
Augusto Antonioli Vásquez1990–1991rowspan="7" |Alberto Fujimori
Fernando Vega Santa Gadea1991–1996
Carlos Eduardo Hermoza Moya1996–1997
Alfredo Quispe Correa1997–1999
María Carlota Valenzuela de Puelles1999
Jorge Bustamante Romero1999
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde1999–2000
Diego García-Sayán Larrabure2000–2001Valentín Paniagua
Fernando Olivera Vega2001–2002rowspan="6" |Alejandro Toledo
Fausto Alvarado Dodero2002–2004
Baldo Kresalja Roselló2004
Carlos Gamarra Ugaz2004–2005
Eduardo Salhuana Cavides2005
Alejandro Tudela Chopitea2005–2006
María Zavala Valladares2006–2007rowspan="5" |Alan García
(2.º gov.)
Rosario Fernández Figueroa2007–2009
Aurelio Pastor2009–2010
Víctor García Toma2010
Rosario Fernández Figueroa2010–2011
Francisco Eguiguren Praeli2011Ollanta Humala
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Ministers of Justice and Human Rights
Juan Jiménez Mayor2011–2012rowspan="6" |Ollanta Humala
Eda Adriana Rivas Franchini2012–2013
Daniel Augusto Figallo Rivadeneyra2013–2015
Fredy Otárola Peñaranda2015
Gustavo Adrianzén Olaya2015
Aldo Alejandro Vásquez Ríos2015–2016
María Soledad Pérez Tello de Rodríguez2016–2017rowspan="2" |Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Enrique Mendoza Ramírez2017–2018
Salvador Heresi Chicoma

|2018

| rowspan="4" |Martín Vizcarra

Vicente Zeballos Salinas

|2018–2019

Ana Teresa Revilla

|2019–2020

Fernando Castañeda Portocarrero

|2020

Eduardo Vega Luna

|2020

|Manuel Merino

Delia Muñoz

|2020–2021

|Francisco Sagasti

Aníbal Torres

|2021–2022

| rowspan="3" |Pedro Castillo

Ángel Yldefonso

|2022

Félix Chero

|2022

José Tello Alfaro

|2022–2023

| rowspan="3" |Dina Boluarte

{{ill|Daniel Maurate Romero|es}}

|2023

{{ill|Eduardo Arana Ysa|es}}

|2023–Incumbent

See also

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