#forced sterilisation

Every country has individual instances of forced sterilisation apparently. And this video is just the movement of prisoners around the country in a totally normal way.

The horrifying deaths of at least 14 women who had undergone surgery at sterilisation camps in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, highlight the violence of the population control policies that the British government is at the forefront of promoting globally.

Czech Anna Adamova is still haunted more than three decades after she was forced into a sterilisation that she says irreparably damaged her life.

A member of the central European country's often marginalised Roma minority, Adamova was about to give birth to her fourth child aged just 22 in 1991 when she says she was pressured into agreeing to be sterilised. Adamova is one of thousands who have applied to the Czech government for compensation, although, she says, this cannot make up for the injustice she suffered. "They ruined my life," the now 55-year-old told AFP in a tiny flat in Ralsko, a former military area northeast of Prague. She says that a social worker had threatened to take away her as yet unborn fourth child if she did not agree to the sterilisation and that afterwards, her partner left her because "the Roma see an infertile woman as useless". She was part of a decades-long sterilisation programme targeting mostly Roma women, which the Czech government has since recognised was unlawful. The Czech Republic is an exception in trying to offer redress for such so-called birth control measures implemented during the communist era. A law passed in 2021 and covering the period between 1966 and 2012 grants compensation worth 300,000 Czech koruna ($14,000) to each person who was unlawfully sterilised.

A UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a “crime against humanity”. Forced sterilisation was part of a programme implemented by Peru’s then president Alberto Fujimori during the final four years before he left office in 2000 after a decade in power. The United Nations committee on the elimination of discrimination against women said hundreds of thousands of people had been affected. The 23-member committee issued its finding after reviewing a joint complaint filed by five victims who were forcibly sterilised between 1996 and 1997. “The victims claimed that the forced sterilisations they underwent had severe and permanent consequences for their physical and mental health,” it said in a statement. The experts denounced Peru’s failure to properly investigate the violations and compensate the victims, urging the country to put in place a “comprehensive reparation programme for victims”. It said “widespread or systematic forced sterilisation could constitute a crime against humanity”.

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by Raffaella Milandri© Between 1970 and 1980, 42% of Native American women were sterilised against their consent. The US government’s plan was signed into law by then President Richard Nixon on 16 March 1970. Eugenics and selection of the dominant race Among the various instruments used by the US government to solve the so-called ‘Indian problem’ we have seen, in my previous articles, the…