1. Women and Economy of Peru
Massive Sterilization of Women in Peru In the 1990's, during the reign of dictator Alberto Fujimori as many as 200,000 women were estimated to have been forcibly sterilized. ... This campaign targeted the poor women from rural areas of Peru. ... 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. ... The target of these sterilizations are not only the poor, but the native indiginous people who do not have ...
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