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Liz Tasa Mujeres, 2ndo premio, 2019

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  • 1 - Las elegidas - cebddd87-4250-4ca...jpg
  • Women victims of forced sterilizations are marginalized within their social environment and are known contemptuously as the "Machorras", thats mean a sterile female. Since fertility is of paramount importance in these communities, many women are abandoned by their husbands because they can not give them more children.<br />
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"At that time when my neighbors found out I had been sterilized they called me in the streets" Machorra ". You are a mule, a capona (referring to a castrated woman like the animal). Why do you think your husband has left you? Surely you have been operated to be with other men ", is the testimony of Dionisia Calderón, one of the victims.
    2 - Machorras - ced71bff-515b-4820-b...jpg
  • In the Andean cosmovision the Paqarinas are the access roads with the world inside<br />
(Ukjupacha), where the germs of creation are concentrated: plants, animals and human<br />
beings. The earth represents one of the sacred beings that make up its universe and to<br />
which it is attributed, mainly, the capacity to allow the reproduction of life as well as<br />
the woman.
    3 - Un útero en la tierra - 08b90b2b...jpg
  • The case of forced sterilization in Peru is a serious violation of women's reproductive rights, constituting a serious case of violence, since it implies aggression and affects their physical integrity and safety<br />
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"They insult you, they say: 'You want to have children like a pigs.' Then they assure you that you will heal quickly, but it is a lie.The scar heals fast outside, but not inside, because we do a very hard job, with a lot of strength ".- Hilaria Supa
    4 - Violencia - b0892cb3-6176-4c4b-a...jpg
  • 5 - La evidencia - c3f2ca1c-8918-44d...jpg
  • Having children  means to they establish the social position corresponding to adulthood. The fertility of men is a sign of virility and domination over their partner, or as an informant man stated: "having sex and many children is a sign of the power and control of a man." In addition, more children allow a stronger work force for the work of family farms. For this reason, men feel threatened by contraceptives, as they give women greater control over conception. This has been one of the  reasons why husbands have left their wifes and look for another family.
    6 - Los hijos - 652a3951-2fa4-43dd-a...jpg
  • Given that their crops and animals represent their only<br />
source of economic income for the women of these<br />
communities who have been affected, some have had to sell<br />
their livestock or land to cover the operating expenses for<br />
extraction of the uterus. The operation can cost between<br />
four thousand soles. Women who can not afford this<br />
operation continue to suffer the consequences of these<br />
operations.
    7 - El ganado - b26edea0-ed67-4a70-8...jpg
  • The Family Planning program was applied mainly in the mountains of Peru, as in Cusco, Piura and also in the Amazon. The majority of those affected did not know how to read or write. The nurses took advantage of that to make them sign the documents where they gave the consent to sterilize them without them being aware. In other cases it was the husband who signed the consent to be sterilized if they did not have to do the vasectomy to him.
    8 - Sin poder - e87d43b6-c5d3-436f-b...jpg
  • 9 - Familia Quispe - 729b5498-c945-4...jpg
  • 10 - Todo se alteró - b830ec67-08c8-...jpg
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