La cicatriz de Paulina (2011)

Overview

In 1995, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori announced before Congress the beginning of a Family Planning Program at the national level, a program that aimed to improve people's reproductive health. Some feminist organizations initially believed in the president's initiative, since said Program went against the tide of conservative tendencies in the Catholic Church and would allow all women access to different contraceptive methods. However, three years later articles began to appear in the newspapers of the first cases of what seemed to be not a Family Planning Program but forced sterilization campaigns and the women, victims of these methods, began to speak ...

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