2004
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13 media items in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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FEMMES DU MONDE. I will never be able to have children again.
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE. Sabina Ulca
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE. Hilaria Supa
2004
Femmes du Monde. Antonia Calderon
2004
Femmes du Monde. Victoria Mejilla
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. San Ramón, Chanchamayo
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Yanaoca, Cusco
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Yarinacocha, Coronel Portillo
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Julcán, La Libertad
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN, La Esperanza, Chavín Region (2)
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN, LA ESPERANZA, CHAVÍN REGION
1998
TUBAL LIGATION. Huansancos
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Documents 49
Forced Sterilizations in Peru: Women Await Justice. Although Impunity Borders on Crimes Against Humanity
The allegations of forced sterilizations made by various women and organizations in Peru over these years take on special significance in the efforts of a group of twelve Quechua-speaking peasant …
Torn Wombs
Between 1996 and 2000, during Alberto Fujimori's government, according to reports from the Defensoría del Pueblo, more than 276,272 women and 22,004 men were forcibly sterilized. The victims were from …
Humala Promises Justice for Sterilized Women
Peru's president-elect Ollanta Humala will push for investigations so that justice penalizes those responsible for the compulsory sterilization program targeting women during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), according to …
Did You Know That Fujimori Ordered the Forced Sterilization of Around 300,000 Women, Mostly Indigenous?
The Fujimori government organized a campaign to forcibly sterilize women, most of them indigenous Quechua-speaking women. Deception and threats were employed. This crime is considered genocide by experts in International …
Fujimorismo and Mass Sterilizations
A thesis recently presented at the Universidad Católica reminds us of what Fujimorism in power represented. It is a sharp analysis of the development of state policies of mass sterilization …
U.S. Agencies Involved in Forced Sterilization of Peru's Poor
Amid ever-increasing evidence of coercive government population control efforts and sterilization campaigns in Peru, the Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA) has called for the U.S. government to withdraw …
TESTIMONIES OF FORCED STERILIZATIONS
Our virtual library www.genocidioayacucho.com contains many articles related to Fujimori's genocidal campaign to reduce the indigenous population. The number of women forced into sterilization exceeded 250,000. Here we present some …
EVIDENCE THAT FUJIMORI DID NOT PROMOTE A FAMILY PLANNING CAMPAIGN BUT A METHOD TO ELIMINATE THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION
Fujimori's false rhetoric, claiming that his family planning program would give indigenous people access to the same contraceptive methods as wealthy families in Lima, was simply a campaign to permanently …
FORCED STERILIZATIONS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The lawyer from the "Movimiento Manuela Ramos," Rocío Villanueva, now director of IDEHPUCP, was in charge of investigating forced sterilizations as an official of the Defensoría del Pueblo. From her …
THE TWO FACES OF CIPRIANI
Cardinal Cipriani opposes the morning-after pill, but did not protest the forced sterilization program of 250,000 women ordered by Fujimori
TWO VIDEOS IN ENGLISH ON FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU
PERU: FUJIMORI'S FORCED STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN. (Insight News TV. 11'40'') http://www.insightnewstv.com/d68/ SECRET STERILIZATION- PERU (Journeyman Pictures. 28'43'') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9GtGl4Odk This is an impressive TV document which shows crude testimonies of victims, government …
I KNOW STERILIZATION WAS PERFORMED
This was revealed through the testimonies of affected women. The special prosecutor's office cannot archive the reported cases. NGOs will appeal the decision because crimes against humanity cannot be subject …
UNTOLD TRUTHS: THE EXCLUSION OF FORCED STERILIZATIONS FROM THE FINAL REPORT OF THE PERUVIAN TRUTH COMMISSION
This article argues that the exclusion of forced sterilization cases from the investigation and Final Report of the Truth Commission effectively erases State responsibility and significantly reduces the prospects for …
CVR MINI-BOOKLETS ON FORCED STERILIZATIONS
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Forced Sterilizations from the CVR. This is the title of Jocelyn E. Getgen's article "Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth …
The Genocide of Sterilizations
A brilliant analysis by the author on forced sterilizations in Peru and their international repercussions.
More on Forced Sterilizations
Continuing from the last post on the topic of the genocide of sterilizations, which already contains links to various materials on the subject, in this post I compile additional links …
Fujimori: Only 180 Complained (III)
While sheltered in his golden refuge in Tokyo, former dictator Alberto Fujimori emphatically denied that 300,000 forced sterilizations had been registered during his government because, by his own reckoning, "only …
FUJIMORI BEHAVED LIKE A HEROD
It is the outcry of the women sterilized in the Asháninka native community, decimated by "family planning."
Forced Sterilization, Another Crime of Fujimori
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 …
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 …
Fujimori Behaved Like a Herod (II)
Before the 1990s, in the native communities of Satipo, in the Junín region, the Asháninkas used to parade with their young children in their arms during traditional festivals. Today the …
Fujimori's Indigenous Genocide
Alberto Fujimori, the Japanese Dr. Mengele, carried out a sinister plan in Peru to sterilize, on a massive scale, nearly one million indigenous women. He intended, through demographic control, to …
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
POOR ILLITERATES OF INDIGENOUS ORIGIN, THEY WERE MANIPULATED AND OPERATED ON WILLINGLY OR BY FORCE. TODAY THEY MUST FACE THIS TERRIBLE MUTILATION (Poor illiterate women of indigenous origin, they were …
FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU
In Peru, between 1995 and 2000, the second government of former President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori launched an aggressive nationwide sterilization campaign aimed, in effect, at preventing births in the poorest …
Forced Sterilization of the Indigenous Population in Peru
During the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, a birth-control plan was implemented targeting the poorest sectors of the Peruvian population, essentially indigenous people, which under the pretext of improving living conditions …
Constitutional Complaint Against Fujimori and Several Ministers for Crimes Related to the Forced Sterilization Program
Complaint filed in Congress against Fujimori for crimes related to his forced sterilization program.
¿lman ruwana kashan? What Do We Do Now?
"They don't suffer — they're used to it," says a woman to her son on a collective bus crossing Huancavelica. Coming to terms with the CVR report will mean admitting …
President's Page: Peru Sterilization Campaign
In January 1998, PRI sent researcher David Morrison to Peru to investigate reports that women were being forcibly sterilized. What he discovered was a nationwide campaign, aimed specifically at sterilizing …
The UN, Accomplice in Forced Sterilizations
There is conclusive evidence that the United Nations collaborated in the forced sterilization of poor women in rural areas of Peru between 1995 and 1997. Peruvian parliamentarian and physician Héctor …
Human Rights and Reproductive Wrongs
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher's book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. When the government sterilization team arrived in their little town of La Legua, Peru, Celia Durand …
FINAL REPORT
During the course of the investigation into irregularities in the performance of sterilizations and vasectomies in the country, various difficulties arose. We note that the events under investigation occurred primarily …
FUJIMORI ACCUSED OF GENOCIDE FOR FORCED STERILIZATIONS
At the end of June 2002, the parliamentary report became known regarding the abuses committed by the Fujimori government through its reproductive health programs, which victimized nearly 350,000 Peruvian men …
Alberto Fujimori, 'The Andean Mengele'
The Fujimori government carried out a plan in Peru to forcibly sterilize more than 200,000 indigenous people and the poor. It was supposedly intended, through demographic control, to stabilize the …
Fujimori Ordered the Forced Sterilization of 200,000 Indigenous Women in Peru
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and three former health ministers are to be charged with genocide by the Peruvian Congress. They are accused of having directed a plan of forced …
FINAL REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF VOLUNTARY SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION (VSC)
An important document from the Subcommission of the Congress of Peru that provides full details of the monstrous campaign of forced sterilizations of 314,605 women and 24,563 men. It concludes …
Final Report Concerning Voluntary Surgical Contraception During the Years 1990–2000
Conclusions 1. It is proven that the Ministry of Health carried out the National Program of Family Planning and that 314,605 women and 24,563 men were sterilized from 1990 to …
HISTORY OF FORCED STERILIZATION CAMPAIGNS. THE PERUVIAN CASE
Impressive account of forced sterilization in Peru and other countries for fascist and racial purposes.
Broad Women's Movement – Founding Line
Testimonies of 12 peasant women from Anta submitted to the Human Rights Commission of the Congress of the Republic, the Ministry of Health, and the Attorney General in September 2001. …
Peru: "Festival of Tubal Ligations"
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 …
Fujimori the Sterilizer?
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.
Testimonies of 12 Peasant Women from Anta
Testimonies of 12 peasant women from Anta submitted to the Human Rights Commission of the Congreso de la República, the Ministry of Health, and the Fiscal de la Nación in …
Ombudsman's Report No. 27: The Application of Surgical Contraception and Reproductive Rights II. Cases Investigated by the Ombudsman's Office
From June 1997 to May 1999, the Defensoría del Pueblo received and investigated a total of 157 cases concerning alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Programa de Salud Reproductiva-Planificación …
MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND TUBAL LIGATIONS AND 500 VASECTOMIES WERE PERFORMED IN PUNO
EL COMERCIO of Lima reported last March 8 that approximately 2,117 tubal ligations and 515 vasectomies were performed at the so-called Health Festivals held in 1997 in the rural districts …
Peru's Sterilization Program Targets the Poorest
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 …
UN-PERU: POLICY TO LIMIT BIRTHS
Next Monday, July 6, the Peruvian government will submit its report to the monitoring committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The …
The Collapse of Peru's Forced Sterilization Program
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 …
THE CONTRACEPTION OF THE POOR
More than 250,000 people, predominantly women living in extreme poverty, were sterilized in Peru between 1996 and 1998. In the period 1996-97 alone, there were 200,000, according to the report …
The Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program 1996–2000 Is Approved
Through Ministerial Resolution No. 071-96-SA/DM, the "Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar 1996-2000" was approved, which constitutes the referential and strategic framework for local and national-level actions. Forced sterilizations …