Don’t support UN agency’s sterile policy

IN 2001 Galway For Life sought to highlight allegations that the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), an organisation that the Government financially supports, had in the late 1990s been involved in a campaign of compulsory sterilisation of over 100,000 Peruvian women.

Almost all of these women were poor and many were members of the indigenous Indian populations.

We were advised by the Department of Foreign Affairs at that stage that the UNFPA itself had conducted an ‘independent investigation’ of its own activities in Peru and found that no evidence existed to support these allegations.