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Women, families, lawyers and activists refused to let these stories disappear.
Lawyer Giulia Tamayo documented testimonies and evidence of coercion in her 1999 report Nada Personal.
Organisations including CLADEM, DEMUS, CEJIL and the Center for Reproductive Rights have continued the fight for truth, justice and reparations.
In 2024, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women found Peru responsible for violations against five survivors and recognised forced sterilisation as gender-based violence.
And in March 2026, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held Peru internationally responsible for the forced sterilisation and death of Celia Ramos.
The Court recognised her case as part of a wider discriminatory state policy and, importantly, recognised forced sterilisation as reproductive violence and institutional violence against women.
Nearly 30 years later, survivors are still fighting.
This is about bodily autonomy, Indigenous women’s rights, racism, reproductive justice and what happens when a government decides that some women’s ability to have children is a problem to be solved.
Source:https://reproductiverights.org/cases/celia-ramos-v-peru-inter-american-court-human-rights
Thank you for reading.
Love, Danielle Danielle Catherine