She travelled for several hours from her remote village to the south-eastern city of Cusco. I could not but be inspired by their strength and determination in the face of decades of government failure to deliver the justice they deserve.Ĭondori had just given birth to her fourth child in 1995 when she went to the hospital for a check-up. On a recent trip to Peru, I met with indigenous rural women who, like Condori, have been fighting for reparations for these atrocities. Inés Condori was one of the estimated 270,000 indigenous women forcefully sterilised by the government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru between 19. GUE/NGL MEP Ángela Vallina (Izquierda Unida, Spain) is the co-rapporteur on the European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 62nd session of the UN Commission on Women to be voted in plenary on Thursday, 1 March 2018. One week ahead of International Women’s Day, Ángela Vallina writes about the need for a “feminism without borders” so that we can learn from each other’s struggles and bring about meaningful change for the next generation of girls in rural areas.
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