Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations - Asia, World - The Independent: "According to rights groups, victims and health officials, Rakhimbayeva is one of hundreds of Uzbek women who have been surgically sterilized without their knowledge or consent in a program designed to prevent overpopulation from fueling unrest.
Human rights advocates and doctors say autocratic President Islam Karimov this year ramped up a sterilization campaign he initiated in the late 1990s. In a decree issued in February, the Health Ministry ordered all medical facilities to 'strengthen control over the medical examination of women of childbearing age.'"
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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