Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules
Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaignThe highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru on Thursday over the death of its citizen Celia Ramos, who died at the age of 34 in 1997 after undergoing sterilisation...
<p>Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign</p><p>The highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru on Thursday over the death of its citizen <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/22/case-celia-ramos-mother-died-forced-sterilisation-peru-heard-human-rights-court">Celia Ramos</a>, who died at the age of 34 in 1997 after undergoing sterilisation “under coercion”.</p><p>The landmark ruling by the <a href="https://www.corteidh.or.cr/que_es_la_corte.cfm?lang=en">inter-American court of human rights</a> (IACHR) is the first on Peru’s forced sterilisation programme, which operated between 1996 and 2000 and was directed against poor, rural and Indigenous women.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/06/peruvian-state-responsible-for-mothers-death-in-forced-sterilisation-court-rules">Continue reading...</a>
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