Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth Commission's Report

Kestenbaum, Jocelyn Getgen

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“…Healthcare workers had to meet quotas imposed by the Ministry of Health and operated in conditions that lacked hygiene, medical knowledge and follow-up care. At least 18 women died as a consequence (Ballón Gutiérrez 2014;Coe 2004;Getgen 2009;Theidon 2014). 21 Most victims originated from small, impoverished Quechua and Aymara-speaking communities.…”

Section: New Directions New Meanings New Victims (From 2000)mentioning

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Peruvian Grassroots Organizations in Times of Violence and Peace. Between Economic Solidarity, Participatory Democracy, and Feminism

Waardt

Ypeij

2016

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The new millennium has meant a new start for Peruvian society. After decades of political violence, economic crisis, and an internal war, democracy was restored, and economic growth resumed. The many grassroots organizations that had been established to address the economic and political crisis seem to have lost their initial raison d'être. Still, they have remained in operation to this very day. In this article, we analyze the history and continued presence of two types of urban grassroots organizations: the communal kitchens and the victim-survivor organizations. Our leading question is: what is the present-day rationale sustaining these grassroots organizations that originated as responses to the political and economic turmoil from the previous decades? As we will argue, insight into the values of economic solidarity, participatory democracy, and gender equality is important to better understand the organization's continuity. They shed light on the organizations' changing roles and diverging meanings that their members attribute to them. Nowadays, members see the organizations as a platform for self-expression. Resumen El nuevo milenio ha significado un nuevo comienzo para la sociedad peruana. Tras décadas de violencia política, crisis económica y una guerra interna, se restauró la democracia y se reanudó el crecimiento económico. Las muchas organizaciones de base que se habían establecido para abordar la crisis económica y política parecen haber perdido su razón de ser inicial. Sin embargo, han seguido funcionando hasta este día. En el presente artículo, analizamos la historia y la presencia continuada de dos tipos de organizaciones urbanas de base: las cocinas comunitarias y las asociaciones de víctimas sobrevivientes. Nuestra pregunta inductiva es: >cuál es la lógica actual que sustenta a estas organizaciones de base que se originaron como respuesta a la agitación política y económica de las décadas previas? Como argumentaremos, el conocimiento de los valores de solidaridad económica, democracia participativa e igualdad de género es importante para comprender mejor la continuidad de la organización. Estos valores arrojan luz sobre los papeles cambiantes y los significados divergentes de las organizaciones que sus miembros les atribuyen. En la actualidad, los miembros ven a las organizaciones como una plataforma para la autoexpresión. Résumé

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Section: New Directions New Meanings New Victims (From 2000)mentioning

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Peruvian Grassroots Organizations in Times of Violence and Peace. Between Economic Solidarity, Participatory Democracy, and Feminism

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Ypeij

2016

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“…58 Moreover, some health workers did not provide women with 48 information regarding other available birth control methods and many times deliberately gave inaccurate information about the risks and consequences of surgical sterilisation. 59 As put by Jaichand and O'Connel, 'the Peruvian State ultimately viewed family planning as a means to reduce poverty rather than to promote women's rights.' 60 The Peruvian Human Rights Ombudsman Office played a vital role in documenting gross human rights violations during the implementation of the programme.…”

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Government-Sponsored Population Policies and Indigenous Peoples

Pereira¹

2015

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

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This paper examines whether indigenous peoples' right to reproductive autonomy can be established from the right to self-determination and to health under international human rights law, and the extent to which their reproductive health rights can be effectively protected against government-sponsored population policies. Historically there have been instances of government population policies targeting specifically or primarily indigenous peoples. This includes the US sterilisation programmes in the 1970s and Australia's removal of Aboriginal children to live with foster white families (1900–1969), as well as in more recent years Peru's family planning programme (1996–2000). The past decade has seen some important developments in this field, in particular the Australian Government's symbolically important ‘apology’ to the ‘Stolen Generation’ in 2008, and the proposal for a state Stolen Generations (Compensation) Bill 2014, which, if adopted, could provide a measure of reparation for past policies. At the global level a number of important initiatives on population policies have developed, the most recent being the second international conference on population and development in Cairo in 2014. This paper argues that the right to self-determination, to health and to prior and informed consent, which includes the right to self-government and autonomy, must also include the indigenous right to reject government policies that subject communities to birth control programmes.

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“…Jocelyn Getgen (2009) vai além da denúncia. Ela argumenta que o mandato da CVR era suficientemente amplo para incluir estes graves casos como violações de direitos humanos por parte do Estado, sendo essa uma restrição, por tanto, de caráter autoimposto e interpretativo, mais que jurídico.…”

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“…Depoimento apresentado na Mesa Diálogos entre saberes: el caso de las esterilizaciones forzadas desde lxs afectadxs, abogadxs, activistxs y academicxs, em 29 de abril de 2007, durante Congresso Internacional da Associação de Estudos Latino-Americanos 2017 (Lasa 2017), ocorrido na cidade de Lima de 28 de abril a 1 de maiode 2017. 187 No ano anterior, em 1995, o Congresso peruano já havia aprovado uma modificação na Lei Nacional de População de 1985 que autorizava o uso da esterilização -Anticoncepção Cirúrgica Voluntária (AQV)como método de planejamento familiar(GETGEN, 2009).…”

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A questão indígena na Comissão da Verdade e Reconciliação do Peru

Fávari¹

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This work aims to analyze the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru (CVR in Portuguese), and discusses the Commission's treatment of the impacts of the armed struggle of the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, PCP-SL) and the response of the Peruvian state for it. The territorial reference of our report is the southern Andean mountain range, particularly the department of Ayacucho. This region has one of the largest Quechua-speaking population in the country, it is where PCP-SL emerged and concentrated its actions, overall in the first six years of the 1980s, when the conflict left more victims and was more violent. For this reason, the focus of this work is the indigenous issue based on the question: howis it presented in the CVR Final Report? In order to interpret the Report, a discourse analysis was conducted on a historical and comparative contextualization of the document, and the selection of categories related to the ethnic-racial colonial horizon of Peruvian society: Indian, indigenous, peasant, mestizo, misti and cholo. Two field trips to Peru were made in order to complement strategies to collect and synthesize other data and information. The creation and work of the Commission have historic importance in the Latin American context. Its Report should be appreciated as an important starting point for new hypotheses, fieldwork and the collective and popular construction of plural and democratic country projects. As for the indigenous issue, the Final Report is the product of decades of dispute over political and intellectual positions, and as such, it presents advances, potentialities, contradictions and limits. The invisibility of the Andean indigenous people and the obscuring of the issue are, therefore, more akin to the problems inherent in these debateswhich preceded the Commission. The CVR is in a context of the depletion of mestizaje discourses as a bet by the political and intellectual elites to solve the pending national question, but it is at a time when the valorization and recognition of differences as potentialities in the construction of a Popular and democratic state is limited.

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Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth Commission's Report

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Peruvian Grassroots Organizations in Times of Violence and Peace. Between Economic Solidarity, Participatory Democracy, and Feminism

Peruvian Grassroots Organizations in Times of Violence and Peace. Between Economic Solidarity, Participatory Democracy, and Feminism

Government-Sponsored Population Policies and Indigenous Peoples

A questão indígena na Comissão da Verdade e Reconciliação do Peru

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