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“What is forced sterilization and coerced sterilization?

Forced sterilization is when a person is sterilized (via tubal ligation) without their knowledge or informed consent.

“Sterilization under coercion” is when people give their consent for the procedure, but on the basis of incorrect information (i.e. women being told the procedure is reversable) or other coercive tactics such as intimidation or that conditions are attached to sterilization, such as financial incentives or access to health services.

Forced and coerced sterilizations are a form of gender-based violence and torture.

What rights are violated when a person is forcibly or coercively sterilized? 

Forced or coerced sterilization violates the rights to equality, non-discrimination, physical integrity, health, and security, and constitutes violence against women. In some cases, this could constitute torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or violation of the right to life.

International standards recognize the right of all women and girls to live free from violence and discrimination; to make decisions about reproduction free from discrimination, coercion or violence; to make free choices about the number, spacing and timing of their children; and to have access to sexual and reproductive health information and services.

Forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women is also an assault on the cultural integrity of societies that have already endured grave human rights violations including forced assimilation. Measures to prevent births within national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups are explicated prohibited by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."

 Amnesty International. (2018, November 13). Indigenous women in Canada continue to be coercively or forcibly sterilized

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