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Quipu project
14 February 2017
In the 1990s, during his 10-year reign as president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori launched a new family planning programme that resulted in the sterilisation of 272,028 women and 22,004 men in only 4 years. University of Bristol scholars, as part of an AHRC-funded research project, have been contributing to the Quipu project that now has a documentary commissioned by The Guardian.
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