Women and Economy of Peru
Massive Sterilization of Women in PeruIn the 1990’s, during the reign of dictator Alberto Fujimori as many as 200,000 women were estimated to have been forcibly sterilized. The “Technical Secretary” of the forced sterilization campaign was reported in the commission’s report to have been the United Natons Population Fund (UNPFA). The Popular Research Institution reports that Fujimori’s coercive population control campaign took these campaign on as way of stimulating economic growth. The program executed by the Peruvian government was financed by international organizations, mostly the United Nations Population Fund. This campaign targeted the poor women from rural areas of Peru. The women were victimized and treated like dogs, being forced into this by the campaign, many without realizing the repercutions. Peruvian Government officials denied the allegations of feminist movements that called them out on what they had done. They claimed that the campaign did not target specific women and was not done by force. In reality, the campaign targeted poor, rural women who were ignorant of what was being done to them, and they were badly taken advantage of. Peruvian Government claims that all procedured were done unde
According to one source members of the conservative opposition Renovation party have collected more than 1,000 complaints from women who say they were injured by tubal ligations or were pressured into agreeing to the operation. Many cases go undocumented because of ignorance of the language or fear of reprecautions. Many of the Peruvian people are outraged with these events. According to The Shawnee News Star a health care worker in Huaycan states, "Poor women are not cattle to be sterilized by the thousands without telling them what is being done. This never happens to wealthy women." This point of view is share by many others who the governments actions as a violation on its countries poor. The Peruvian reports confirm that the U.S. was right to pull funding of this campaign. The U.S. is forbidden to support organizations that support coercive abortion and sterilization. With evidence that more than 280,000 women were sterilised in the last three years and 110,000 of them in 1997 these reports seem feaseable and plausible. The target of these sterilizations are not only the poor, but the native indiginous people who do not have much of a voice in government and who do not speak the spanish language.
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