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Peru

Peru has a population estimated at 29.2 million (UN, 2009) with an area of 1.28 million sq km (496,225 sq miles). The capital is Lima. The major languages are Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.

Peru endured a brutal war against Maoist rebels in which up to 69,000 people were killed in the 1980s and 1990s. Investigators have blamed the rebels for many of the killings, but the military has also been implicated. Despite the near destruction of the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrilla groups, violence in the form of murders and gang warfare is still a problem and has been linked to the drug trade.

  • Peru ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on September 13, 1982
  • Peru does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
  • Peru does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate

Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM

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  • February 14, 2012 (CBS News)
    PERU: Justice delayed for Peru sterilization victims Flores is among more than 2,000 women who issued formal complaints about being forcibly sterilized under a program created by then-President Alberto Fujimori to dramatically lower Peru's birth rate.
  • December 6, 2011 (BBC News)
    PERU: Women Fight for Justice on Forced Sterilisation Peru's government has reopened an investigation into a controversial birth control programme of sterilisation. The announcement has brought fresh hope to the many women and men who feel their rights were violated. "You give birth like pigs or hamsters!"
  • June 28, 2011 (Narco News)
    COLOMBIA: 'We Didn't Have Our Sons or Daughters For War North Cauca, Colombia, June 24, 2011: The first meeting of indigenous women in resistance for the survival and autonomy of their peoples concluded on Friday, after taking place at a shelter in Huellas Caloto in the Bodega Alta district in the Cauca department of Colombia. For four days, women and men from northern Cauca, joined with around 26 national and international organizations, discussed “weaving a memory with words,” and finished the event with a march to the town of Santander de Quilichao.
  • June 8, 2011 (IPS)
    PERU: Community Defenders in Peru: Planting Hope to Root Out Violence CUZCO, Peru, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) - Where is the justice? In Peru, a nation still struggling to recover from a sordid 20-year cycle of terror and political uncertainty, this simple yet poignant question has become an almost daily litany.
  • April 15, 2011 (IPS)
    PERU: Local Gov'ts Fail to Prioritise Equality for Women Legally, each of Peru's 25 administrative regions must have a plan for promoting equal opportunities for women. But over the last year, only 10 regions have actually allocated resources to the task of overcoming gender inequity, while another 10 have not even drawn up the compulsory equal opportunities plan.

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BBC Countries Profiles

Amnesty International

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

WILPF Perui Section

President/International Board Member

Miryan Quispe Cubillas
Jr. Pablo Bermudez No 214, of. 605-A
Jesus Maria
Lima 11, Peru
Tel : +51 1 330 2823
Fax : +51 1 330 8546
E-mail: miryan_luzq@hotmail.com

WILPF Perui Section

 

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