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Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations

Peruvian ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4294583 ↗
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The Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (Spanish: Ministerio de la Mujer y Poblaciones Vulnerables, MIMP) of Peru is the government ministry in charge of national policy regarding women and vulnerable populations. Its headquarters are located in Lima, Peru.

It is the only ministry in the country's government whose office is exclusive to women. As of 2025, the minister is Fanny Montellanos.

History

The ministry was created on October 29, 1996 and was originally named Ministry of the Promotion of Women and of Human Development (Spanish: Ministerio de Promoción de la Mujer y del Desarrollo Humano, PROMUDEH). Its creation was announced by then-president Alberto Fujimori in Cologne during the 1996 Latin American Week and the German Conference on the Latin American Economy. In 2002 it was renamed as Ministry of Women and Social Development.

Subsequently, on July 11, 2002, Organic Law 27779 amended the organization of the Council of Ministers of Peru, which renamed it the Ministry of Women and Social Development (Spanish: Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social, MIMDES). However, the Latin American Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights had criticised the possible restructuring of the body. In 2012, it received its current name.

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