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#HumanExploitation is an exhibition that seeks to raise awareness among the general public about the problem of trafficking in persons in Peru, for sexual or labor exploitation. I had the opportunity to participate in the exhibition organized by curator Cecilia Larraburre and Universidad del Pacífico in Peru.

Over 450,000 people work as domestic workers in Peru, 95.6% of them women. Over half are employed in Lima and the rest throughout the country. Despite working for their rights and claims for more than 30 years, the conditions they face are framed by inequality and discrimination. Domestic workers are specifically protected by Convention 189 which establishes basic rights and principles. It requires States to take several measures to ensure decent work for domestic workers.

In recent years, Peru has experienced unprecedented economic growth. More than 3.5 million homes are made of precarious materials, 2.5 million lack sewerage, and 7 million lack access to safe drinking water, leaving 60.9% of the population at risk of natural disasters. In light of all of this, the Forum of Spanish NGOs seeks to promote a discussion on the current economic development model and its effects on the lives and projects of the affected populations.

Manta y Vilca is a work based on real events that tells the story of two sisters aged 14 and 16 who face and survive sexual violence in the middle of the internal armed conflict in Huancavelica during 1984.
Manta y Vilca are the names of the towns where the women were kidnapped, tortured and raped en masse. The entire troop passed through them. They got pregnant and were kicked out of their towns when they wanted to report. They survived all that violence, and now they are on trial and have been waiting for justice for more than 30 years.

In October 2016, a chilean woman from the Ahuidanche Mapuche community was subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment when she was forced to give birth in a public health center with her ankles shackled to a stretcher and surrounded by two police officers. Her health was at serious risk because she had been suffering from preeclampsia for quite some time and hadn't been treated promptly.

Men and women have historically had different rights based on the characteristics we associate with each sex. Thus, still in the 20th century, it was considered that women were not suitable to participate in public life and that they should devote themselves solely to the domestic sphere and care of the children, resulting in the fact that women did not have a series of rights, such as studying at university (until 1908) and voting (until 1956), which only men did.

Due to soil contamination or water diversion, mining impacts on the lands worked by women make their situation more difficult because they affect food security. Women run the risk of being left without a home or source of production, because it is men who make decisions about selling their territories to large extractive companies, without consulting their wives and families, which are protected by the General Law of Peasant Communities, which grants land only to qualified "comuneros", or family heads.

The movement embodies a socio-political construction, a walk between feminists and diverse women who share the desire to emancipate themselves, yet remain conscious of the privileges and inequalities of power.

Women are people with rights, not objects, and as such, they have the right to determine their reproductive, life, and future plans. Despite a traumatic event such as rape or sexual abuse, the State still prohibits abortion if someone is pregnant by their relatives or if their pregnancy leads to suicide.

In the emblematic case of Bertha Cáceres, who was assassinated by the Honduran State for her efforts to defend the land of the Lenca people and her opposition to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in Rio Blanco, the Honduran State failed to protect her from constant threats.

Women, girls, and adolescents have one of the most urgent rights to be protected and guaranteed, which is the decriminalization of abortion. In Peru, women may terminate a pregnancy voluntarily if their lives or health are at risk (therapeutic abortion). Pregnancies that result from rape or malformations that are not compatible with life are subject to abortion penalties, exposing women to hiding and health risks, which are particularly harmful to young women and people living in poverty.

The decriminalization of abortion is a matter of human rights, democracy, and social justice. Due to the presence of fundamentalist and discriminatory discourses in public debates that disregard the gender perspective and women's reproductive rights, it is essential for us to discuss arguments that allow us to defend the right to decide as a requisite for a society that guarantees women's dignity and right to live in a violence-free environment.

They are a group of women who are fighting against the mining megaprojects and the contamination of the rivers, as well as the negative impacts they bring to our town.