Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Reader in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has co-organised and will be speaking at an event, ‘Forced Sterilisations in Peru and the Search of Justice’, to be held at the Human Rights Action Centre in London, at 18.00 on Wednesday 21 June 2017.

The event is organised in conjunction with the Peru Support Group, Amnesty International as well as the University.

Between 1996 and 1998, some 200,000 women and around 30,000 men were forcefully sterilised, many without their consent or understanding what the procedure meant for their fertility. The victims have been campaigning for justice and reparation for two decades. The meeting is an opportunity to learn more about what this policy consisted of as well as its longer-term consequences.

At the event, human rights defender Esperanza Huayama, president of the Association of Forcibly Sterilised Women, from the region of Huancabamba in Piura, Peru, who will be speaking about her experience in seeking justice and reparation.

The event is free to attend, and you can register online.