CEDAW/C/89/D/170/2021 included in the Registry of Victims of Forced Sterilization and is receiving psychological support. Case of Rosa Loarte Sobrado 2.9 During a health campaign in Pichgas, Huánuco, in October 1996, 35-year-old Rosa Loarte was stopped by medical practitioners who took her, along with a group of other women, to La Unión medical centre, approximately two hours away from her village. The practitioners told the women that all of them had to go, without tell ing them that they would be operated on. Her 8-year-old daughter and her baby waited outside the centre. She states that she is illiterate and did not sign anything. She was put to sleep and when she woke up, the nurses told them: “You won’t be having children now, we’ve cured you”. Upon waking, Rosa felt strong pains in her belly, but the staff immediately sent her home; she had to walk carrying her baby. She did not receive post-operative care. A month after the operation, she moved to Lima. She did not file any form of complaint. When her husband fo und out that she had been sterilized, he abandoned her. In 2016, some women in her village told her that they were gathering information in order to file a complaint. She was entered in the Registry of Victims of Forced Sterilization on 20 December 2016 and her case was included in investigation No. 14-2016 on 15 November 2018, by Decision No. 127. Rosa states that she feels intense pain in her torso and pain in her spine, but she has not received treatment. Case of Elena Rojas Caballero 2.10 In 1996, 30-year-old Elena Rojas, a resident of the Dos de Mayo district, Huánuco, was stopped, along with her sister, by some nurses, who asked her if she received social benefits and ordered her to get into a truck “so that you can have your tubes tied in La Unión, so that you don’t have more children, don’t have lots of children. If you don’t have the surgery we won’t give you your benefits under the ‘Vaso de Leche’ (glass of milk) and ‘Juntos’ (together) programmes”. They were forced into a truck along with other women. At the medical centre in La Unión, Elena was made to sign a document “for medicines”. Subsequently, she was anaesthetized; when she awoke, she felt weak and had intense pain in her abdomen. The staff reiterated that she had been operated on “so that you don’t have more children”, but failed to inform her that she had been sterilized or that it was permanent. She was sent home after four hours without medication or instructions. She did not undergo any post-operative checks. After finding out about the sterilization, her husband abandoned her, telling her that she had “let herself be operated on”, so she had to go and work in the jungle. Six months later, Elena began to suffer severe pain and was diagnosed with uterine cancer, but she could not afford the necessary operation and was forced to beg in order to pay for it. Eventually, a doctor agreed to operate on her, but she could not afford post-operative care. Today, she continues to live with severe pain and in a highly precarious situation, without the knowledge or means to take legal action. She states that, in Huánuco, she received a document inviting her to register as a victim, but, after she moved to Lima in 2016, the various prosecutors’ offices she approached there told her that they did not have jurisdiction. On 6 February 2017, she was entered in the Registry of Victims of Forced Sterilization. Case of Gloria Basilio Huamán 2.11 In 1996, Gloria Basilio Huamán, from Huánuco, reported having been constantly harassed during health campaigns by nurses who told her that her husband, being a farmer, would not be able to support their children, and that, “in the countryside, women breed like rabbits, like guinea pigs, and don’t use contraception”. Despite her refusal, in July 1996, when she was 25 years old, a couple of nurses picked 24-19966 5/19