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.

  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 days ago

    Now do China with the Uyghur.

    From the article.

    • “She felt strong pains in her abdomen but was immediately discharged and had to walk back home without any post-operative care,” it said.