The Belly Women
Documentary investigation ( 90 min)
directed by Matilda Damoisel
directed by Matilda Damoisel
On behalf of the eradication of poverty and development, many Peruvian women have been hit by a deliberate policy of birth control, their horns ligated irreversibly, in defiance of their consent, in precarious and dangerous to their health. Dozens of women have died of their sterilization.
Thousands are now in irreversible sequelae. And their families live, always in poverty and denial of their rights. "They asked me nothing, they took me like an animal in the operating room. They said: "We cared for thee that thou hast more children. Never again. " The woman who utters these words is called Yoni . It's one of those 300,000 were Peruvian sterilized between 1995 and 2000, all farmers in the Andean highlands and Amazon jungle, India, illiterate, poor ...
Friday 21 January 2011 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
House Latin America
217, Boulevard Saint Germain, 75007 - Paris
Subway: Solferino - Rue du Bac / Buses: 63.68.69.83.84.94
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