Technology gives survivors of forced sterilization a voice (Peru)
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Technology gives survivors of forced sterilization a voice
Published on November 1, 2013 by Vanessa Baird
Mobile phones and ancient Inca technology are coming together to enable survivors of forced sterilization to tell their stories and campaign for justice.
Next year is likely to see a re-opening of the legal case concerning Peru’s scandalous sterilization of 300,000 women – many of them forced or without their informed consent.
And the Quipu Living Documentary project – as the experimental communications initiative is called – could play a key role in helping the women achieve justice.
The sterilizations took place in the 1990s, under the government of Alberto Fujimori. Survivors still have serious mental and physical problems as a result of the programme, which was supported by USAID. Poor and indigenous people were especially targeted.
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