Peru Judged for Its Policy of Forced Sterilization in the 1990s

Peru faces the accusations of forced sterilization. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights meets in Guatemala to try the case of Célia Ramos, a woman from a rural community who suffered a ligature of forced tubes in 1997 before dying a few days later as a result of the complications of the operation. For the more than 300,000 victims of Peruvian politics in the late 1990s, this is a highly anticipated trial.

In mid-1997, during the regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru, a peasant named Celia Ramos Durand began to receive visits from health officials at her home in La Legua, Catacoas village, an area of extreme poverty in Piura. She treated them reluctantly and for education, but repeated that she did not. Celia was a full-time mother of three daughters: Marisela, 10, Emilia, 8 and Marcia, 5 years old. She was 34 years old and energetic, the pillar of t…

The Celia Ramos case arrives at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the hope of justice On May 22, a historic hearing began in Guatemala: for the first time, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) judges the State of Peru for the death of a woman after forced sterilization in the Fujimori government. This is the case of Celia Ramos, a 33-year-old woman who died in 1997 after undergoing tubal ligature surgery without her consent…

"We want the truth to be known. No one is going to bring Mom back to us, but there must be justice and reparations from the State," Marisela Monzón Ramos told the judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on May 22nd, who were reviewing the case of her mother, Celia Ramos, a Peruvian woman who died in 1997 after undergoing a sterilization that her family claims was forced during the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori. R…

Celia Ramos was one of the fatal victims of the questionable practice promoted by the Fujimori regime.