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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]
Vargas has pushed for reproductive rights for women in Peru and is recognized internationally as a leading Peruvian women's rights campaigner. [2] As a researcher, Vargas has studied social movements of the Southern Cone and the role of women in economic development. [1]
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 ...
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]
The court declared "inapplicable" an article of the Peruvian Civil Code of 1984 on the family, which refers to marriage as the voluntary union between man and woman. It is likely that an appeal ...
[61] [62] On 4 February 2023, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in favor of Crissthian Olivera, concluding that the Peruvian State had violated Articles 8.1, 11, 24, and 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights, in relation to Article 1.1 of the same instrument.
Peruvian women's rights activists (1 C, 6 P) F. Feminism in Peru (2 C) P. Prostitution in Peru (1 C, 3 P) V. Violence against women in Peru (6 P) W. Women's suffrage ...
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