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Radio 4,08 Jul 2016,11 mins

Forced Sterilisation in Peru

Witness History

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It is 20 years since the Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori launched a family planning programme. He argued that a lower birth rate would drive down poverty but many Peruvian women now claim that they were forcibly sterilised without their permission. Mike Lanchin reports.

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