While the U.N.decision could well be a turning point for how the international community approaches instances of forced sterilization—defined as “the involuntary or coerced removal of a person’s ...
Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her will. Decades later, the 46-year-old Indigenous woman is still fighting for ...
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole and bully women in a farming community in Peru's highlands to come with them for ...
Peru has reopened a criminal investigation against ex-President Alberto Fujimori on charges he and three of his former aides led a 1990s government program that forcibly sterilized thousands of poor ...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is on trial for his role in a 1990s government program in which many Indigenous women in poor communities say they were forcibly sterilized ...
A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, Texas, noticed a shift among her patients. Texas had passed a law in 2021, commonly known as the Heartbeat Act, banning ...
LIMA (Reuters) - Human rights group Amnesty International pressed Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Thursday to track down scores of poor Andean women who might have been forcibly sterilized by ...
Demonstrators depicting female victims of forced sterilization during former President Alberto Fujimori’s government protest in front of the Superior Court, in Lima, Peru, Dec. 9, 2019 (AP photo by ...
More young, child-free women are pursuing the permanent form of contraception. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, noticed a shift among ...
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