Peru - October 2024

In its decision on a complaint raised by five women victims of forced sterilization in the 1990s, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) recommended that the Peruvian State provide comprehensive forms of reparations to the complainants, and that it conducts all necessary inquiries into the practice of forced sterilization and implement a broader reparations program for all people affected. The Committee found that the practice of forced sterilization in Peru in the 1990s ‘amounted to sex-based violence and intersectional discrimination’, and recognized that rural, Indigenous and economically marginalized women were particularly affected by the State’s reproductive health and family planning program implemented during those years. Pursuant to the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women, Peru has six months to inform the Committee of the measures adopted to address CEDAW’s decision and recommendations. 

Sources: OHCHR, El Comercio Peru