Fight for justice: Peruvian women sterilised simply for being ‘poor’
Fight for justice: Peruvian women sterilised simply for being ‘poor’

Fight for justice: Peruvian women sterilised simply for being ‘poor’

Jessica Abetcha

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In Peru, approximately 270,000 women and 22,000 men were sterilised between 1996 and 2000 as the result of a controversial birth control policy. The goal of ex-President Alberto Fujimori and his administration was to reduce poverty. But thousands of indigenous women, who did not always speak Spanish, say they were forcibly sterilised. More than two decades on, victims are still fighting for justice. FRANCE 24's Thomas Nicolon reports.

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