Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ordered Peru to pay reparations to the family of Celia Ramos, a mother of three whose death resulted from a campaign of forced sterilisations during the 1990s.

EDGEWOOD, N. M. (AP) -- In the 1970s, the U. S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the opportunity to start or grow families.