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First do no harm: enforced sterilizations and gender justice in Peru

From 1996 to 2000 the Peruvian state subjected an estimated 270,000 women to enforced sterilizations under the guise of ‘family planning’. How did an architecture of impunity sanction large-scale sexual violence? From States of Impunity.

KIMBERLY THEIDON 29 April 2015

https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/kimberly-theidon/first-do-no-harm-enforced-sterilizations-and-gender-justice-in-peru

“Memorias del Caso Peruano de Esterilización Forzada”

Date:
Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 7:00pm
See also: Peru, Andes and Southern Cone Program
Location:
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.
Alejandra Ballón, Peruvian research based artist in different artistic disciplines: installation, drawing, music, performance, painting and new media; Faculty of Arts of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).

Comments by Kimberly Theidon, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cultural Agents Initiative, and Mahindra Humanities Center.

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And now available:

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Tuve el honor de escribir la presentación del libro, con la esperanza que sirva para lograr — por fín — algo de justicia para miles de mujeres Peruanas.

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First Do No Harm: Enforced Sterilizations and Gender Justice in Peru