American Court of Human Rights is ordering Peru to pay compensation for a woman’s death tied to a forced sterilization ...

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 ...

Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign ...

Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ordered Peru to pay reparations to the family of Celia Ramos, a mother of three whose death resulted from a campaign of forced sterilizations ...