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Women's organizations noted that alcohol abuse and traditional attitudes toward women aggravated the problems of rape and sexual abuse - particularly in rural areas. [5] In November 2006, the World Health Organization reported that 69 percent of Peruvian women said they had suffered from some form of physical violence in their lives. [5]
Girl with her alpaca near the Plaza de Armas in Cusco, Peru. By law, Peruvian women must be 16 years old to marry; [32] prior to 1999, it was 14. A 2004 survey by the United Nations estimates that 13 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 19 have been married. In some families, the mother is the head of the household. [6]
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 ...
After a long legal battle, Ana Estrada, 47, who suffered from polymyositis, “died on her own terms, in accordance with her idea of dignity and in full control of her autonomy until the end ...
Perón founded Argentina’s first large-scale female political party, the Women's Peronist Party. ... She helped legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage in Uruguay. 37. Gabriela Isler. Gabriela ...
However, by the 1970s, large families were increasingly seen as "culturally primitive", harmful to women's health, and a threat to democratic stability. [6] At that time, Peru was a deeply divided society, with a powerful oligarchy ruling over a largely impoverished majority. [ 11 ]
Hilaria Supa Huamán (born 28 December 1957) is a Peruvian politician, human rights activist, and an active member of several Indigenous women's organizations in Peru and around the world. She was a Congresswoman representing Cusco from 2006-2011, as a member of Ollanta Humala's Partido Nacionalista Peruano party.
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