UN recommends that Peruvian television remove racist program content

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that Peruvian television remove such characters as "Jacinta the Peasant," as they spread an erroneous image of indigenous women. According to a poll taken by the Department of Justice, 49% of television viewers believe that television programming promotes racist content. Various NGO also denounce that television--in which the state lacks legal power to intervene--promotes ridicule and prejudice towards afrodescendents and young people from Amazonic and Andean regions. teleSUR.