FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT MARÍA MAMÉRITA MESTANZA CHÁVEZ
Through a petition submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 15, 1999, the non-governmental organizations Estudio para la Defensa de la Mujer (DEMUS), the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de la Mujer (CLADEM), and the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), which subsequently accredited as co-petitioners the Centro Legal para Derechos Reproductivos y Políticas Públicas (CRLP) and the Centro para la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), denounced that the Republic of Peru violated the human rights of María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez by subjecting her by force to a surgical sterilization procedure, which ultimately caused her death.