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Massive Sterilization of Women in Peru In the 1990’s, during the reign of dictator Alberto Fujimori as many as 200,000 women were estimated to have been forcibly sterilized. The “Technical Secretary” of the forced sterilization campaign was reported in the commission’s report to have been the United Natons Population Fund (UNPFA). The Popular Research Institution reports that Fujimori’s coercive population control campaign took these campaign on as way of stimulating economic growth. The program executed by the Peruvian government was financed by international organizations, mostly the United Nations Population Fund. This campaign targeted the poor women from rural areas of Peru. The women were victimized and treated like dogs, being forced into this by the campaign, many without realizing the repercutions. Peruvian Government officials denied the allegations of feminist movements that called them out on what they had done. They claimed that the campaign did not target specific women and was not done by force. In reality, the campaign targeted poor, rural women who were ignorant of what was being done to them, and they were badly taken advantage of. Peruvian Government claims that all procedured were done unde