UN rules forcible sterilizations of women in Peru ‘crime against humanity’
by Agence France-Presse in Lima from World news | The Guardian on (#6RVW9)
Country ordered to compensate victims of programme that affected more than 300,000 women in 1990s
A UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a crime against humanity".
Forced sterilisation was part of a programme implemented by Peru's then president Alberto Fujimori during the final four years before he left office in 2000 after a decade in power.
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