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Women are a slight minority in Peru; in 2010 they represented 49.9 percent of the population. Women have a life expectancy of 74 years at birth, five years more than men. [32] Latest estimates suggest that the population of Peru is Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%. [33]
In the early 20th-century, the issue was beginning to be lifted in public debate by pioneering women's activists such as Maria Jesus Alvarado, Zoila Aurora Cáceres, Adela Montesinos, Elvira Garcia y Garcia and Magda Portal, and Maria Jesus Alvarado was the first Peruvian woman to support women's suffrage in public in 1911. The Parliament first ...
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Abortion has been generally illegal in Peru since 1924. [2] A woman who consents to an abortion can be sentenced to up to two years in prison. A person who performs an illegal abortion can be sentenced to one to six years in prison. [2] About 19% of Peruvian women have had an abortion according to the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. [3]
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In 2020, protests began in Peru over the deaths of Judith Machaca and Noemí Escobar, two women whose bodies were found in a well; a public outcry followed when Santiago Pace, a police officer who confessed to murdering both women and being a member of a sex trafficking ring operating from within the Peruvian police, was released from custody ...