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 OWL International news

Sterilization as indispensable condition of humanitarian aid rendering.

25-07-2002 www.euronews.net.

  The former President of Peru Alberto Fuhimori is accused of conducting an illegal campaign on birth control in Peru.
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Convention on liquidation of all forms of discrimination against women (1981)

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