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Together We Fight
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10 March 2026

During Peru's internal armed conflict, the government of Alberto Fujimori launched a campaign—disguised as a family planning program—that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous‑language‑speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non‑Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilization and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Ñusta Carranza Ko draws on a vast trove of first-person testimony to amplify the neglected voices of victim‑survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on these women's stories and struggles, she argues that the campaign was genocidal.
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Racialized Gender-Based Violence in Peru
Chapter 1. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: The Politics of Victimhood
Chapter 2. Indigenous Women and the Genocide: Peru’s Coercive Sterilization of Indigenous Women
Chapter 3. Then, There Were the Children . . .
Chapter 4. The Other Victims: Victoria Vigo’s Story
Chapter 5. Together We Fight: Role of Activists and Allies in the Fight Against Impunity
Conclusion: Justice, Reproductive Rights, and What Remains
Bibliography
Index