Peru's Indigenous Women Bring Forced Sterilizations Case to UN

[Judi Lynn]

Published 10 May 2017


Sterilizations have a dark and controversial history in the country, and efforts to bring justice and representation to thousands of victims who live in disenfranchised and resource-scare communities has been a slow road.

Peru’s National Organization of Indigenous Andean and Amazonian Women, ONAMIAP, brought the case of mass sterilizations which occurred during the second term of former dictator Alberto Fujimori to the United Nations earlier this week.

Between 1995 to 2000, the right-wing leader oversaw forced sterilizations that affected over 270,000 women and 24,000 men, according to ONAMIAP.

ONAMIAP launched the initiative on the last day of the 16th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that took place in New York between April 24 to May 5.

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Perus-Indigenous-Women-Bring-Forced-Sterilizations-Case-to-UN-20170510-0022.html

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Forced sterilisation haunts Peruvian women decades on
By Javier Lizarzaburu
Lima
2 December 2015


Twenty years ago she was growing potatoes and corn and bringing up her children in her native Huayllacocha, a village in the Andes four hours by car from the provincial capital, Cuzco.

But she told me her life changed forever one day in 1996.

A doctor suggested Ms Huillca, who was heavily pregnant at the time, visit a health clinic in the town of Izcuchaca.

'Nightmare'
She told the BBC that the nightmare started straight after she gave birth.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34855804