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IX. Acknowledgements

Angela Heimburger, Americas researcher for the Women’s Rights Division, wrote this report based on research conducted in Peru in June, July, and December 2007 by Angela Heimburger and Marianne Møllmann. Janet Walsh, deputy director of the Women’s Rights Division; Daniel Wilkinson, deputy director of the Americas Division; Lois Whitman, executive director of the Children’s Rights Division; Aisling Reidy, senior legal counsel; and Ian Gorvin, senior program officer reviewed this report. Rachel Jacobson, Emily Allen, Fitzroy Hepkins, Jose Martinez, Andrea Holley, and Grace Choi provided production assistance.

We are grateful to the many individuals and organizations who contributed to this research with their time, expertise, and information, though they are too numerous to mention individually. Many of them are the ones who continue to struggle for justice for women in Peru on a daily basis. Human Rights Watch sincerely thanks all of the courageous women who shared their experiences with us to inform this report.

We appreciate the feedback on this report provided by Alicia Ely Yamin of Harvard Law School; Lilian Sepúlveda, legal advisor, Center for Reproductive Rights; and others. Human Rights Watch assumes full responsibility for any errors or omissions in this report.

The Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges the financial support from Arcadia, the Moriah Fund, the Oak Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Banky-LaRocque Foundation, the Schooner Foundation, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, the Frog Crossing Foundation, the Chicago Foundation for Women, and the members of the Advisory Committee of the Women’s Rights Division.