This article proposes how social documentary can function as a tool for symbolic reporting and redress, as well as a vehicle for the empowerment of victims. Hope Huayama, Vice-President of the Association of Women Affected by Enforced sterilisations (AMAEF) and leader of the Association of Peasant Women in Huancabamba Province (AMBHA), is one of the most emblematic cases of forced sterilisation in Huancabamba province. In the documentary A sterile voice (2012), which I reaffirmed as part of my doctoral research, Esperanza Huayama gives his testimony for the first time. Today, he actively participates in protest marches in Lima and in meetings with parliamentarians, gives interviews to different public and independent media and interviewed with judges who took the case. He has travelled to Spain and England by bringing the voice of sterilised women in the country. She is responsible for representing sterilised women and is aware of the impact on the media of this campaign and how it has become a public figure through the power of social media and the documentary report. Your case – and those of women who make up the Institute for the Support of Women’s Movement (IAMAMC) and AMBH – provided me with evidence of how the case of sterilisations is recalled and how, in Lima’s citizens, there is a hegemonic racist social discourse that allows them to ignore the rights of the populations affected by these policies.