Emily Wright reports for Women and Girls: Bolivia: Home to Latin America’s Highest Rates of Sexual Violence Bolivia has the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America with one in every three women experiencing some kind of sexual abuse before the age of 18. One activist is trying to change that by challenging stereotypes…
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No alcohol, no violence: life inside the Bolivian community led by women
Amy Booth reports fro The Guardian: No alcohol, no violence: life inside the Bolivian community led by women The barrio of Maria Auxiliadora slopes up one of the many hills in the dusty mountain bowl surrounding Cochabamba, Bolivia. Visually, there is little to distinguish it from the other barrios of the city’s working-class southern periphery:…
Activists: Bolivia needs to do more to stop killings, violence against women
Humanosphere reports: Activists: Bolivia needs to do more to stop killings, violence against women BY LISA NIKOLAU The number of women killed in Bolivia is on the rise, but activists say there are plenty of actions the government can and should be taking to combat it. Ninety-four women were killed last year, according to the…
Despite Legal Protections, Violence Against Women is Spiking in Bolivia
Linda Farthing reports for World Politics Review: . . . . . . http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/20720/despite-legal-protections-violence-against-women-is-spiking-in-bolivia Article falls short, there is despicable violence from men to women across all social classes … I am particularly disappointed at the author’s neglect to mention the misogynist and macho remarks of the coca grower caudillo who functions as president of…
Can Bolivia’s new measures counteract gender violence?
Peter Lykke reports for Al-Jazeera: Can Bolivia’s new measures counteract gender violence? Bolivia has one of the highest rates of gender violence, with nine in 10 women experiencing it in their lifetime. Brisa de Angulo was raped repeatedly as a teenager by an adult member of her own family. When she finally mastered the courage…
Two Bolivians earn international award, we must stop feminicide!
ANF reports in El Dia: King of Spain on journalism Two Bolivians earn international award “Femicide and violence against women in Bolivia,” prepared by the Bolivian journalists Abdel Padilla Vargas and Jose Luis Mendoza and issued the “City Square” on Radio Fides, November 8, 2014 won the XXXIII edition of the International Journalism Awards King…
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