Lima (HRNW) — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Peruvian government is responsible for the death of Celia Ramos, a 34-year-old woman who died after undergoing a forced sterilisation procedure in 1997.
According to the court, Ramos was pressured into a sterilisation surgery in a poorly equipped medical facility and died days later after suffering a severe allergic reaction. The ruling is considered historic because it is the first international judgment addressing Peru’s mass sterilisation program (1996–2000) that affected more than 314,000 women, mostly poor and Indigenous.
Human rights advocates say the decision marks an important step toward justice for thousands of victims who were sterilised without proper consent during the government of former president Alberto Fujimori.
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