UN COMPLICIT IN FORCED STERILIZATIONS

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UN COMPLICIT IN FORCED STERILIZATIONS

Posted By: Kent <Send E-Mail>

Friday, 25 November 2005, 7:48 a.m.

U.N. Complicit in Forced Sterilizations

 

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1417

U.N., U.S. and NGOs Promoted Forced Sterilizations in Peru

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=28415

Taxpayers Stuck With Tab for U.N. ´Forced Abortions´

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/21/154753.shtml

 

In 1995, just before the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, a law was

passed that authorized sterilization as a means of family planning. Many

thought it was very courageous of President Alberto Fujimori (in power since

1990) to take on the powerful Roman Catholic Church. At the time, the law

was applauded by women as a step forward, as a tool that enabled them to

decide about their own body. Women's organizations collaborated with the

health ministry in setting up health centers and family planning services.

Now critics claim that the ministry has been waging a massive sterilization

campaign in which women, and particularly poor and indigenous women, have

been pressured and bribed or deceived into accepting surgery for tubal

ligation. Growing evidence suggests that the sterilization law has been

arbitrarily applied to reduce the birth rate as a way to combat poverty

rather than as an expression of women's reproductive rights.

The methods of the Program for Reproductive Health and Family Planning are

questionable. It encourages " sterilization campaigns " and " sterilization

fairs " where women are 'captured' to be sterilized. Physicians are forced to

comply with a minimum quota of tubal ligations per month. Health workers are

trained to capture as many women for sterilization as possible. For each

sterilized woman they get about $5-11 and if they fail to produce the

minimum number of women, they are likely to get fired. The setting of

targets very easily encourages coercive practices. Pilar (not her real

name), a health worker in Piura (northern Peru) says: " Women are hardly ever

informed about alternatives to tubal ligations, nor are they given full

information about its implications. In most cases they are not told that the

ligations are usually definite and irreversible. And many of the women are

very young, some as young as 20. "

http://www.cwpe.org/issues/population_html/schmidt.html

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