Caso Eulogia Guzmán y su hijo Sergio Vs. Perú
Eulogia es una mujer quechua que quería tener un parto vertical conforme a sus tradiciones y de la misma forma que había tenido a sus otros cinco hijos, pero El Estado peruano desconoció sus prácticas [...]
Eulogiamanta Sergio wawanmantawan Peru suyuman churapakusqankumanta
Eulogia is a Quechua woman who wanted to have a vertical birth according to her traditions and in the same way she had delivered her other five children, but the Peruvian government ignored her cultural [...]
Case of Eulogia Guzmán and her son Sergio v. Peru
Eulogia is a Quechua woman who wanted to have a vertical birth according to her traditions and in the same way she had delivered her other five children, but the Peruvian government ignored her cultural [...]
Amicus Work: Latin America and the Caribbean
Case of I.V. v. Bolivia Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2016) Issue: Bolivia’s policy of forced sterilization Center Position: Forced sterilization is a human rights violation. I.V., a Bolivian, sued Bolivia when she was sterilized [...]
Peru Apologizes to K.L.
18 years after K.L. was denied an abortion and forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term, Peru offers her an official apology. K.L. was 17 years old and 14 weeks pregnant when she found [...]
New Human Rights Case Filed on Behalf of Peruvian Rape Survivor Denied Emergency Contraception at Public Hospital
New Human Rights Case Filed on Behalf of Peruvian Rape Survivor Denied Emergency Contraception at Public Hospital (PRESS RELEASE) Peru’s ban on the distribution of emergency contraception in public hospitals denied a rape survivor access to [...]
Peruvian Government Publicly Recognizes Human Rights Violations Against Rape Survivor As Part of Landmark U.N. Abortion Case
Peruvian Government Recognizes Human Rights Violations Against Rape Survivor As Part of Landmark U.N. Abortion Case (PRESS RELEASE) The Peruvian government publicly acknowledged the human rights violations suffered by L.C., a rape survivor who was [...]
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Journey to Justice
Journey to Justice Fifteen years after being denied an abortion, a Peruvian woman is paid reparations by the government in a landmark human rights victory. Last week one of our clients, a woman known as [...]
Peruvian Government Gives Monetary Reparations As Part of Historic United Nations Abortion Case
Peruvian Government Gives Monetary Reparations As Part of Historic United Nations Abortion Case (PRESS RELEASE) The Peruvian government has agreed to pay reparations as part of the first United Nations (U.N.) ruling on human rights [...]
Perú Reopens Criminal Investigation Into Mass Forced Sterilizations
Perú Reopens Criminal Investigation Into Mass Forced Sterilizations (PRESS RELEASE) The Peruvian government will reopen its criminal investigation into the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of women and men in the 1990s—according to a [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission
Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Case on the Forced Sterilization of Chilean Woman Living with HIV (PRESS [...]
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