US EditionHuman Rights Court Orders Peru to Pay Compensation for a 1997 Forced Sterilization Death
The court found Peru responsible for coercing Celia Ramos into sterilization and negligent care leading to her death, ordering $340,000 in reparations to her family.
- On Thursday, the Inter-American Court ordered Peru to pay reparations for Celia Ramos, who died on July 22, 1997, after a coerced sterilization at age 34.
- Under the administration of the late President Alberto Fujimori, the program targeted impoverished and Indigenous women, coercing Ramos into a tubal ligation at a state health center.
- Medical records show the procedure was performed under negligent conditions without medical equipment and medication, Ramos had a severe allergic reaction and delayed transfer to the intensive care unit; the state bypassed a formal autopsy, the court said.
- On Thursday, the court ordered Peru to pay reparations, prompting demonstrations in Lima on March 6, 2026, while the ministry of justice did not immediately respond.
- The court's first ruling on forced sterilizations sets a regional precedent, and after Alberto Fujimori's death in 2024 and the August 2024 indictment overturn, focus shifts to former health ministers and other high‑ranking former officials.
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By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO LIMA (AP) — The daughters of a Peruvian woman who died nearly 30 years ago from a forced sterilization under a family planning program that sterilized more than 300,000 poor women called on Peru to comply with the ruling issued the previous day by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on a date close to International Women's Day. Marisela Monzón, 39, was just 10 years old and the eldest of three sisters when, in 1997, her…
Human rights court orders Peru to pay compensation for a 1997 forced sterilization death
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment and ordered Peru to pay reparations for the death of a mother of three who died in 1997 as part of a forced sterilization program under the administration of the late Alberto Fujimori.
The international court called the medical procedure Celia Edith Ramos Durand a case of reproductive violence within a state policy.
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