Pau* was 11 years old when she and her mother left their native Venezuela to make the exhausting overland journey to Peru. For Pau, the transition was a difficult one. At her new school in the ...

The "For a web without violence" campaign also aligns with the national initiative " Mentes fuertes, mujeres fuertes ", led by the National Institute of Mental Health, which seeks to highlight women’s ...

As the lights turn red, Cindy Novoa launches herself, ball in tow, into one of the busiest intersections in Lima. She brings the ball around the world, then rests it on her forehead, in a sped-up ...

In Peru, women’s rights exist in a strange paradox: on paper, we have the laws, the representation, and the international commitments that promise equality; in reality, our lives tell a different ...

Marlin Mata has awakened from a coma she suffered after throwing herself from a moving bus to escape two men trying to rape her, but Peru is still deep in the nightmare of spiraling violence against ...

It's a grim roster of alerts. A woman, age 19, last spotted in July wearing sky blue jeans, a black sweater and black sneakers. A 16-year-girl missing since she left her home one morning in July. A 14 ...

In the 1990s, Peru reformed its customary laws that limited women’s right to work, access banking and financial services, and own and inherit assets, contributing to a 15 percent increase in women’s ...

When a government team held a “ligation festival” to register women for sterilization in La Legua, Peru, Celia Durand resisted. The 31-year-old mother of three was appalled at the pressure tactics ...

In Peru, communities in the Andes and the Amazon have come together to defend the health of people and families affected by pollution from toxic metals. To achieve this, they have formed the National ...

In Peru, during the government of Alberto Fujimori, 244,234 women and 20,693 men were irreversibly sterilized as part of national family planning policies (1996-1999). These forced surgical procedures ...