Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori

In the second half of the 1990s, the Fujimori  government in Peru implemented a population  policy to sterilize poor, rural and indigenous  women according to quotas. How such a neoMalthusian policy was possible in a post-Cairo,  post-Beijing era of increasing attention for  women’s rights has, howe...

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Main Author: Jelke Boesten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEDLA 2007-04-01
Series:European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Online Access:http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9637/