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Women in Peru represent a minority in both numbers and legal rights. Although historically somewhat equal to men, after the Spanish conquest the culture in what is now Peru became increasingly patriarchal .
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The Flora Tristán Peruvian Women's Center (Spanish: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán or CMP Flora Tristán) is a feminist non-governmental organization established in Lima in 1979 in defense of women's human rights and equality. It has Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). [1]
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Lourdes Huanca Atencio was born in Tacna, a city in the South of Peru, in 1968. [1] She is a member of Peru's Aimara tribe, and her family is from Puno, Peru. [5] She lived with her father until she was eight years old at which point she was sent to live with her mother and step-father. [2]
Another group of organizations, CARE-Peru and Physicians for Human Rights, have both supported monitoring accountability and maintenance for health rights and access within Peru. [17] Today, CARE works to structure their programs around discriminated and vulnerable populations like women, indigenous groups and rural populations, in order to ...
According to Peru's National Statistics Institute 2014 survey, 32.3% of Peruvian women had at some point experienced physical violence from a spouse or partner, [4] and 11.9% had experienced such in the previous 12 months. [5] The country's national human rights ombudsman's office has estimated that every month 10 women are killed by their ...