Peru Carried Out 250,000 Forced Sterilizations in the Fujimori Era
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 vast majority of women. This program responded to the National Population Law, which aimed to reduce the fertility rate to 2.5 children per woman by the year 2000. According to the report "Nada Personal," the campaign was directed at the poor rural population of both sexes, but in practice the interventions were performed more on women