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Take Action: Justice For Peruvian Women Forced Into Sterilization
Help bring justice for the hundreds of thousands of women who were forcibly sterilized in Peru from 1990 to 2000.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 1,407
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
Between the years of 1990 and 2000, terrible atrocities were committed against women in Peru. President at the time Alberto Fujimori was at the heart of a campaign to sterilize women as a form of extreme birth control.
Most of the women targeted were poor and from impoverished areas, and therefore had little access to family planning resources or help that could otherwise protect them from the forced sterilization. It's clear that President Fujimori preyed on these women. Many times, the women couldn't even choose whether they wanted the procedure done or not.
The UN needs to step up and redress this terrible assault on human rights — Fujimori hasn't been punished for these crimes nor have the women been given assistance.
Tell the UN: devise a plan to rectify Fujimori's gross attacks on human rights in Peru.
Dear UN representatives:
From 1990 to 2000, hundreds of thousands of women in Peru experienced forced sterilizations on behalf of Peru's president at the time Alberto Fujimori. The sterilizations were a part of his aggressive family planning plan, aimed to cut birth rates significantly.
Over this period of time, sterilizations were performed by unqualified people and often without anesthetics. As a result, many of the women suffered permanent physical and emotional stress.
The UN still has not taken steps to rectify this situation — whether it be holding Fujimori responsible or providing assistance to the affected women.
It's your job to make sure this injustice does not go unpunished. Stand up for human rights.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Loraine Lindsey
May 12, 2013
John Moszyk
May 9, 2013
Barbara Cote
May 9, 2013
catalina burks
May 8, 2013
Tracey McGill
May 8, 2013
Elizabeth Melton
May 7, 2013
Frances Mackiewicz
May 5, 2013
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May 5, 2013
Ana Alvarez
May 4, 2013
Jean Naples
May 4, 2013
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May 3, 2013
Mary Thomas
May 3, 2013
Pamela Spacek
May 3, 2013
Linda Borell
May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
noelle crawford
May 3, 2013
Imaan Bee
May 2, 2013
Elisabeth Rodda
May 1, 2013
christine harajchi
Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
Phillip J Crabill
Apr 28, 2013
Terry Tedesco-Kerrick
Apr 27, 2013
Beth Malone
Apr 27, 2013
Karolina Kunka
Apr 27, 2013
karen ambrose
Apr 26, 2013
Jonathan Neiss
Apr 26, 2013
sandra patterson
Apr 25, 2013
Gabor Petry
Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
Stephen Cardwell
Apr 24, 2013
David Ferger
Apr 24, 2013
Farah Hage Ali
Apr 24, 2013
alicia masia moreno
Apr 24, 2013
cecilia olea
the justice for these women must be taken now,
Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
Daniela Mess.
Apr 23, 2013
Anita Coolidge
Apr 23, 2013
Lois Jordan
Apr 23, 2013
John Richkus
Apr 23, 2013
Karen Miller
Apr 23, 2013
Kenny Velasquez
Apr 23, 2013
Teresa García
Apr 23, 2013
Lynn Walker
Apr 23, 2013
Heidi Hoffmann
Apr 23, 2013
Selva Carnevale
Apr 23, 2013
Bob Thomas
Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
michela m
Apr 23, 2013
Sheila Ward
Apr 23, 2013
robert zank
