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Forced Sterilization of Women in Uzbekistan examines an alleged government sterilization program and reveals a pattern of ongoing, systematic forced sterilizations that have affected tens of thousands of women and have intensified in recent years.The report's testimonial evidence indicates that for the past 13 years the Uzbek government has carried out a sterilization program that is a centrally regulated policy with the apparent aim of controlling population growth.The report's main conclusions include:In Uzbekistan, all women of reproductive age who have delivered two or more children are potential targets of the program.Medical professionals are under pressure to perform the sterilizations as the authoritarian government holds doctors and nurses responsible for fulfilling quotas set by health administrators.While the international community cannot be held responsible for the forced sterilization program, its close cooperation with officials in the sphere of reproductive health and its reluctance to challenge the government's denials about forced sterilization have implicitly allowed the government to continue the practice.

Abstract This article addresses the reports of immigrant Latin American women being forcibly sterilized in the Irwin County ICE detention center through an intersectional approach and by using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on data retrieved from news articles from the past six years and sources on the history of the practice of forced sterilization. How are these women vulnerable to this kind of abuse? The results indicate that immigrant Latin American women are in fact vulnerable to forced sterilization because of their position within the intersecting inequalities of gender, race and status, but that it is exacerbated by the negative discourses by the political elites and media (re)produce about them. Keywords: intersectionality, CDA, forced sterilization, USA

Forced sterilization was common practice in Peru in the 1990s, especially under the national reproductive health and family planning program developed in the midst of the armed conflict (1980–2000). However, in spite of the concomitant serious violations of fundamental rights, this practice was not included in the investigations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Recently published images, videos, testimonies, and texts provide new evidence regarding the role of the armed forces in these eugenic procedures, the largest state-run population control program in the Americas. La esterilización forzada fue una práctica común en el Perú durante la década de 1990, especialmente dentro del marco del programa nacional de salud reproductiva y planificación familiar que se desarrolló en medio del conflicto armado (1980-2000). Sin embargo, a pesar de las concomitantes graves violaciones a los derechos humanos fundamentales, esta práctica no fue incluida en las investigaciones de la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación. Imágenes, videos, testimonios y textos recientemente publicados nos dan nuevas evidencias en torno al papel de las fuerzas armadas en estos procedimientos eugenésicos y lo que fuera el programa estatal de control de población más grande de las Américas.

Women with disabilities in India suffer two-fold discrimination based on gender and disability. Often stigmatized and isolated by society, over 93% of women with disabilities are denied their reproductive rights and are forced into procedures like sterilization to regulate their fertility. In a joint statement released by the United Nations (UN) agencies forced sterilization was … Continued

Der Begriff Intersektionalität wurde 1989 von Kimberlé Crenshaw geprägt. Als solidarische Praxis und kritische Analyseperspektiven auf Bevölkerungspolitik lassen sich intersektionale Perspektiven aber bereits in den Neuen Frauenbwegungen finden. Der Artikel erläutert die Analysebegriffe "Intersektionalität" und "Bio-Macht" und umreißt mit dem Fokus auf Reproduktionspolitiken die Entwicklung intersektionaler Perspektiven auf Bio-Macht in den 1970/80er Jahren. Am Beispiel feministischer Bewegungen im deutschen und US-amerikanischen Kontext wird nachgezeichnet, wie Forderungen nach der Legalisierung von Abtreibung einerseits, der Abschaffung von Zwangssterilisationen andererseits im Protest gegen bevölkerungspolitische Interventionen zusammenkamen und auch die historische Aufarbeitung eugenischer Bio-Politiken inspirierten.

Peru's national health program Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar (PSRPF) aimed to uphold women's reproductive rights and address the scarcity in maternity related services. Despite these objectives, during PSRPF's implementation the respect for women's rights were undermined with the forced sterilization of women predominantly of indigenous, poor, and rural backgrounds. This study considers the forced sterilization of indigenous women as a genocide. Making the case for genocide has not been done previously with this particular case. Using the normative markers of the Genocide Convention, this study categorically sets forced sterilization victims from the state-led-policy as victims of genocide, considering the effects the health malpractice had on victims' reproductive rights and the prevention of births of future indigenous populations. In doing so, this study proves the genocidal intent from the state to destroy in whole or in part, an ethnic minority group.

Peru's national health program Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar (PSRPF) aimed to uphold women's reproductive rights and address the scarcity in maternity related services. Despite these objectives, during PSRPF's implementation the respect for women's rights were undermined with the forced sterilization of women predominantly of indigenous, poor, and rural backgrounds. This study considers the forced sterilization of indigenous women as a genocide. Making the case for genocide has not been done previously with this particular case. Using the normative markers of the Genocide Convention, this study categorically sets forced sterilization victims from the state-led-policy as victims of genocide, considering the effects the health malpractice had on victims' reproductive rights and the prevention of births of future indigenous populations. In doing so, this study proves the genocidal intent from the state to destroy in whole or in part, an ethnic minority group.

AbstractIn the summer of 2020, shocking headlines reverberated across global media outlets, revealing harrowing stories of forced sterilizations and reproductive abuses committed against Uighurs in China and immigrant women in the United States. The simultaneity of these events sheds light on essential aspects of a transnational order characterized by mass surveillance and detention, a defining feature of diverse contemporary political regimes. This article explores how reproductive violence intertwines with systems of detention and mass surveillance through these two cases. I do so by weaving together the decolonial feminist framework of body‐territory and the principles of reproductive justice that allow for a nuanced examination of how the control of the reproductive lives of Uighur and immigrant women reinforce the mechanisms of exclusion and surveillance embedded in state infrastructures. The demand for the right to bear children and to parent them under dignified conditions, free from violence, is increasingly pressing in a world where reproduction has become an instrument of surveillance and containment. This article engages in an ethnographic exploration of electronic paper trails, adopting what Geiger and Ribes aptly termed "trace ethnography."

IntroductionForced and coerced sterilization is an internationally recognized human rights violation reported by women living with HIV (WLHIV) around the globe. Forced sterilization occurs when a person is sterilized without her knowledge or informed consent. Coerced sterilization occurs when misinformation, intimidation tactics, financial incentives or access to health services or employment are used to compel individuals to accept the procedure.MethodsDrawing on community‐based research with 285 WLHIV from four Latin American countries (El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua), we conduct thematic qualitative analysis of reports of how and when healthcare providers pressured women to sterilize and multivariate logistic regression to assess whether social and economic characteristics and fertility history were associated with pressure to sterilize.ResultsA quarter (23%) of the participant WLHIV experienced pressure to sterilize post‐diagnosis. WLHIV who had a pregnancy during which they (and their healthcare providers) knew their HIV diagnosis were almost six times more likely to experience coercive or forced sterilization than WLHIV who did not have a pregnancy with a known diagnosis (OR 5.66 CI 95% 2.35–13.58 p≤0.001). WLHIV reported that healthcare providers told them that living with HIV annulled their right to choose the number and spacing of their children and their contraceptive method, employed misinformation about the consequences of a subsequent pregnancy for women's and children's health, and denied medical services needed to prevent vertical (mother‐to‐child) HIV transmission to coerce women into accepting sterilization. Forced sterilization was practiced during caesarean delivery.ConclusionsThe experiences of WLHIV indicate that HIV‐related stigma and discrimination by healthcare providers is a primary driver of coercive and forced sterilization. WLHIV are particularly vulnerable when seeking maternal health services. Health worker training on HIV and reproductive rights, improving counselling on HIV and sexual and reproductive health for WLHIV, providing State mechanisms to investigate and sanction coercive and forced sterilization, and strengthening civil society to increase WLHIV's capacity to resist coercion to sterilize can contribute to preventing coercive and forced sterilization. Improved access to judicial and non‐judicial mechanisms to procure justice for women who have experienced reproductive rights violations is also needed.

In August 2021, a law took effect in the Czech Republic to compensate people who had been sterilized on Czech territory without their informed consent between 1966 and 2012. This report, authored by an activist and ally who has assisted Romani women with advocating for compensation since 2004, will summarize the issue and describe the current state of the compensation process. Efforts to end these human rights violations have been underway almost since these practices were first reported in the 1970s in the former Czechoslovakia, and these recent developments represent an important breakthrough for civil society, enforcement of human rights, and Romani people. The compensation process opened on 1 January 2022 and will close on 1 January 2025; this report will review its strengths and weaknesses to date.