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| | Women, Peace and Security News: Peru |
 | | Miss Flores, the candidate of the centre-right alliance, National Unity, is the only woman in Peru's presidential race; and, as the April polling day draws near, voters seem increasingly to like her image of integrity. |
 | | In January 2002 then health minister Luis Solari legislated March 26 National Day of the Unborn Child. In May 2003 his successor Fernando Carbone issued a ministerial regulation requiring public health care providers across Peru to keep a registry of conceived persons by demanding that women report their pregnancies from the moment of conception. |
 | | December 4, 2001 - Though international treaties on women's rights are recognized in Latin America and laws are on the books, courts in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru don't always uphold them. |
| www.peacewomen.org /news/Peru/news.html (1320 words) |
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