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19 media items in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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"Scars of Deception". Documentary.
Interview with María Ysabel Cedano - Forced sterilizations
"Pending justice" - Documentary. Forced sterilizations
"A woman's womb" - Vientre de mujer. Documentary
Sterilized and forgotten (second part). Report
Sterilized and forgotten (first part). Report
Women march demanding laws to curb gender violence
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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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 …
Fujimori and Former Ministers Criminally Charged in the Forced Sterilizations Case
Alberto Fujimori and his former ministers Marino Costa Bauer, Alejandro Aguinaga, and Eduardo Yong Motta are charged before the Primer Juzgado Penal Nacional as indirect perpetrators of the alleged commission …
Criminal Complaint Against Alberto Fujimori and Others Regarding the Forced Sterilizations Case
Criminal complaint formally filed by the Segunda Fiscalía Penal Supraprovincial against Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, Eduardo Yong Motta, Ricardo Luis Costa Bauer, Alejandro Aguinaga, Ulises Jorge Aguilar, Segundo Aliaga Pideno, Octavio …
Ana María Vidal on Forced Sterilizations: The Silence Benefits Keiko
Yesterday the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (of which I am a member) and Demus announced at a press conference that prosecutor Marcelita Gutiérrez decided to extend the investigation into …
PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF FORCED STERILIZATIONS
National protest against the campaign of forced sterilizations during the Fujimori regime.
The Sterilized Bodies of Peruvian Women
President Ollanta Humala raised a hot-button issue during the pre-runoff debates of 2011 aimed at candidate Keiko Fujimori: I refer to the case of forced sterilizations. During the debate, Fujimori …
Quipu Project: An Interactive Documentary That Connects Victims of Forced Sterilizations
Proyecto Quipu connects victims of forced sterilizations through a web forum. Through a free telephone line, participants from Peru can narrate their testimonies, listen to stories shared by others, and …
Legal Report on the Forced Sterilizations Case
Legal opinion on the domestic criminal characterization of acts of surgical sterilization performed by personnel of the Ministerio de Salud during the 1990s on Peruvian women without their valid consent, …
Fifteen Years Have Passed and the State Has Not Prosecuted Forced Sterilization Cases
Since 1999, the State has resisted judicially investigating the abuses committed under the Programa Nacional de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar during Alberto Fujimori's government, even though supranational treaties oblige …
Forced Sterilizations: The Cover-Up Continues
In 1996, during the second government of Alberto Fujimori, the National Program of Reproductive Health and Family Planning was implemented as a public policy to curb birth rates, combat poverty, …
Forced Sterilizations: Justice Waits
The recent announcement by the Attorney General, Dr. José Peláez Bardales, that the cases of forced sterilizations that occurred during the government of Alberto Fujimori will be reopened, has provoked …
Prosecutor's Office Reopens Forced Sterilization Case from the Fujimori Regime
The Lima Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office decided to reopen the investigation into the case of the forced sterilization carried out on María Mestanza Chávez during the government of former President …
BLATANT GENOCIDE
For American researcher Jocelyn E. Getgen of Cornell University, there is no doubt: the forced sterilizations perpetrated during the government of Alberto Fujimori, which violated more than 200,000 indigenous, Quechua-speaking, …
Forced Sterilizations in Peru. Women's Time and Their Memory
This is the story of how this work came to be — how from the political activism of publicizing what the forced sterilizations were, I moved to reflecting on them …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
State Denounced for Favoring Impunity in the Case of Forced Sterilization Victims
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Giulia Tamayo: "Fujimori Ordered the Sterilization of Thousands of Peruvian Women"
Interview with Giulia Tamayo who, threatened by the Fujimori government, had to take refuge in Spain, where she works as head of research and policy at Amnesty International and maintains …
HUMAN RIGHTS, REPRODUCTIVE INEQUALITIES (Translation)
Excerpt from the book "Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits" by Steven W. Mosher. Available at http://www.pop.org/20090123819/human-rights-reproductive-wrongs. The sterilization campaign had begun the previous year. President Alberto Fujimori, elected to …
IACHR Demands Justice for Forced Sterilizations in Peru
The Peruvian State was compelled to punish those responsible for the forced sterilizations that the regime of Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) imposed on more than 2,000 women. This was the ruling …
The Media Controversies in the Mass Sterilization Campaign in Fujimori's Peru (1994-1998)
This thesis analyzes the controversies that developed between 1994 and 1998 in Lima's media regarding the implementation of the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program during the second government of …
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Truth Commission's Final Report
This prestigious law journal from Boston College criticizes the omission in the CVR report of the Family Planning Program implemented by the Fujimori government, which forced the sterilization of 200,000 …
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth Commission's Final Report
ABSTRACT This Article argues that the exclusion of enforced sterilization cases from the Peruvian Truth Commission's (CVR's) investigation and Final Report effectively erases state responsibility and greatly decreases the likelihood …
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 possibilities of …
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 …
The Genocide of Sterilizations
A brilliant analysis by the author on forced sterilizations in Peru and their international repercussions.
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 …
Forced Sterilizations Closed
Special prosecutor Carlos Cáceres definitively archived the investigation into the forced sterilizations carried out in the Peruvian jungle and highlands during the government of Alberto Fujimori. The prosecutor's office holds …
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 …
Sharing Research Experience on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
The author explains that the execution of two investigations entitled "Violence against women in public health services in Peru: silence and complicity" and "Human rights report on the application of …
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 BEHAVED LIKE A HEROD
It is the outcry of the women sterilized in the Asháninka native community, decimated by "family planning."
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 …
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 …
Barren Beliefs: The Sterilization Campaign and Contraception in Peru
The translation of this article also appears in our Hemeroteca under the title "Sterile Beliefs: Sterilization and Contraception in Peru." This paper examines the sociocultural ramifications of a government-mandated sterilization …
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 …
Sterile Beliefs: Sterilization and Contraception in Peru (Translation)
Translation of the article "Barren Beliefs: The Sterilization Campaign and Contraception in Peru," which is also in our press archive. This article examines the socio-cultural ramifications of a government-ordered sterilization …
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
The translation of this article appears in our Hemeroteca under the title: FREE CHOICE OR POVERTY RELIEF? POPULATION POLICIES IN ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S PERU. In 1995, the Peruvian government of Alberto …
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Policies in Alberto Fujimori's Peru (Translation)
Translation of the article titled "Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Popular Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori," which is also in our press archive. This work sets out to examine …
Ombudsman Report No. 111: Oversight of Family Planning Services V Cases Investigated by the Ombudsman's Office
Since June 1997, the year in which the Defensoría del Pueblo recorded the first complaint regarding the case of a woman sterilized without her consent, the defense and promotion of …
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 …