Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
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Most complaints of disappearance and torture in the department of Ayacucho date from 1983 and 1984; however, only those concerning the first of those years have advanced far enough to …
The Peruvian State faces a new lawsuit in an international forum for human rights violations. The feminist organization DEMUS denounced the State for violating the human rights of women who …
In the 1990s, the government of Alberto Fujimori launched a Family Planning program for birth control, using various contraceptive methods, including voluntary surgical sterilization, which resulted in 270,000 sterilizations, the …
Account of events related to the massacre, which occurred on August 14, 1985, of 69 peasants from the Ayacucho district of Accomarca, extrajudicially executed in the area known as LLoccllapampa …
More than 250,000 cases in a "campaign" where officials were threatened with dismissal if they did not meet "their quota." The former Minister of Health, Fernando Carbone, confirmed that, according …
The Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) submitted to the Public Ministry 47 cases of serious human rights violations to be investigated and reported to the Judiciary. In this …
Allegations about mass forced sterilizations carried out during the government of Alberto Fujimori have once again shaken Peru. As the Minister of Health, Luis Solari, announced, for the first time …
The Peruvian Ministry of Health released a document that would prove the direct involvement of former president Alberto Fujimori in a program of forced sterilization of women living in poverty.
There are nearly 7,000 complaints of forced disappearance. The Defensoría del Pueblo has just published a very important investigation into the phenomenon of forced disappearance in Peru between 1983 and …
Few realized the Pandora's box that the Peruvian congress would open when it legalized sterilization as a method of "family planning" in 1995. Sterilization carried out under unsanitary conditions and …
Representatives of the Peruvian government announced in early June 1998 the collapse of the controversial and deadly national sterilization campaign of that country's Ministry of Health. This article is an …