http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/9d7495aee21b140b https://verfassungsblog.de/forced-sterilizations-peru-iachr/ Forced Sterilizations on Trial - The Ramos Durand Case Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Macías Ortega, Paulina eng 2025-06-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CEDAW Inter-American Court of Human Rights Inter-American Human Rights System Interamerikanischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | San José (Costa Rica) Peru Peru Reproductive Rights Structural Discrimination Zwangssterilisation forced sterilization reproductive violence Interamerikanischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | San José (Costa Rica) Peru Zwangssterilisation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 22, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a hearing in Ramos Durand et al. v. Peru. This is only the second forced sterilization case before the Court (after I.V. v. Bolivia) and the first addressing a widespread, state-led policy of coercion like Peru’s. For the first time, the IACHR may explicitly characterize forced sterilizations as reproductive violence and thus as a form of gender-based violence, contributing to a broader and more inclusive understanding of reproductive rights violations within the regional human rights framework.