Hilaria Supa Huamán

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Hilaria Supa Huamán in the Peruvian Parliament, in costume of the Anta province (Cusco region)

Hilaria Supa Huamán (* 1957 in Wayllaqocha , Anta, Department of the Cusco Region ) in Peru , Quechua farmer, is a Peruvian human rights activist , women's rights activist and politician .

Life

Hilaria Supa was raised by her mother's parents, Helena Huamán, who lived as agricultural laborers on a large landowner's hacienda . Even as a child she saw the landowner abusing her grandfather and raping women. Her grandfather, who fought for the rights of landless farmers, was murdered in 1965. Hilaria was then sent to relatives in Arequipa . When she returned to the hacienda years later, she learned that her grandmother had also passed away.

She became a mother for the first time at a young age - when she was 22, her partner died, with whom she had two daughters and a son. From then on she supported her family as a maid in Cusco , Arequipa and Lima .

She became politically active for the first time in the late 1960s, organizing food distribution for street children together with other women. She subsequently became chairman of the Micaela Bastidas committee in Anta (Cusco department) and took part in the struggles for the return of the indigenous lands, which finally resulted in the land reform under Juan Velasco Alvarado .

In 1991 she became organizational secretary in the newly founded Association of Women in Anta (Federación de Mujeres de Anta FEMCA), where she arranged for school education, the recognition of traditional medicine, and awareness of the pesticide problem in agriculture.

Hilaria Supa has taken part in many international women’s conferences where she consciously used her native Quechua in speeches and called for its increased use. She was also head of the regional farmers' association of Cusco within the national association Confederación Campesina del Perú .

She strongly opposes programs that include the sterilization of women. She accuses the former Minister of Health under Alberto Fujimori , Alejandro Aguinaga , of implementing a program that resulted in the violent sterilization of 363,000 Peruvian women (mostly of indigenous descent). One of her daughters was also forcibly sterilized.

In 2006 she was a candidate of the Union for Peru in the Peruvian elected Parliament, where she served as first deputy in the history of Peru on July 25 their oath in an indigenous language, Quechua , took off, followed by her parliamentary colleague María Sumire , for which both were heavily criticized by the Fujimori supporter Martha Hildebrandt and several other MPs.

In August 2010, Hilaria was elected chairman of the education commission of the Peruvian parliament. While MPRA and Fujimori MPs criticized this, there was support from Peruvian education experts.

In April 2011, Hilaria was elected to the Andean parliament as a candidate for the Gana Perú electoral alliance .

Works

  • Awayu - The Quechua woman Hilaria Supa Huamán talks about her life. Verlag Vision 21. ISBN 3-00-016609-2
    • Original edition: Hilos De Mi Vida - El Testimonio De Hilaria Supa Huamán, Una Campesina Quechua. Willkamayu Editores

Web links

Commons : Hilaria Supa Huamán  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ángel Páez, Schattenblick, IPS daily service from September 6, 2010
  2. ↑ Dina Ludeña Cebrián: Lengua quechua - del miedo y desprecio al respeto y visibilización.
  3. ↑ Mayra Castillo: En el nombre del quechua. El Comercio, March 31, 2007.
  4. ↑ D. Raise: Premiere in the Peruvian Parliament: Quechua native speaker will head education commission. Info Amazon, August 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ Perú: Parlamentaria quechua Hilaria Supa preside Comisión de Educación del Congreso. FATIDA, August 10, 2010.
  6. ^ Propuesta de Hilaria Supa como titular de Comisión de Educación del Congreso fue saludada por educadores . El Comercio, August 6, 2010.
  7. ↑ ONPE finalizó conteo de votos para el Parlamento Andino Rafael Rey Rey, Luis Alberto Adrianzen Merino, Javier Reategui Rosello, Hilaria Supa Huamán y Hildebrando Tapia son los virtualmente electos. tuteve.tv, May 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Supa Huamán, Hilaria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Supa Waman, Hilaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION indigenous women's rights activist of Peru
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wayllaqocha