VOA for Citizen Digital: Bolivia, which has one of South America’s highest rates of women being killed because of their gender, has declared femicide a national priority and will step up efforts to tackle growing violence, a top government rights official said on Tuesday. Since January authorities have recorded 73 femicides – the killing of…
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Girl Abandoned on Queens Street 14 Years Ago Is Trying to Go to College in U.S. — and May Get Some Help from NY Charity
NBC New York reports: A key New York charity, New Yorkers for Children, is considering Valery for a college scholarship one day after seeing her story on News 4 New York By Melissa Russo, Kristina Pavlovic, Hilary Weissman and Evan Stulberger Published Jul 12, 2019 at 6:03 PM | Updated at 10:21 PM EDT on Jul 12, 2019 Her story…
Against femicides: Human Rights activists demand to declare national alert
El Diario reports: Climbing femicides Human Rights activists demand to declare national alert More than 50 institutions ask municipal and departmental governments to activate “measures, actions and economic resources” ORGANIZATIONS OF WOMEN ASK TO DECLARE NATIONAL ALERT FOR FEMICIDES. Through a public statement issued by the Bolivian Chapter of the Inter-American Platform for Human Rights,…
Ogilvy Bolivia’s Banking Ad for BCP was deleted from the source page, as a result of Ogilvy’s clarifying the intend while using colloquial slang.
Erik Oster for AgencySpy: We watch a lot of bad ads over the course of a given year, but every so often something comes around so blatantly offensive that it merits special attention. On the one hand of the spectrum we have the type of work awarded for the Cannes Glass Lion, which was introduced in…
Bolivian Women Fight Gender-Based Violence through Theater
AP reports via VoA: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — On stage, amid the hubbub of a Bolivian street market, women recount their stories of abuse at the hands of men. But the violence depicted in the play isn’t just make-believe for the 22 indigenous actresses: It’s based on their own real-life experiences. “Kusisita,” a work that seeks…
The rapes haunting a community that shuns the 21st Century
Linda Pressly reports for BBC News: In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and girls – including small children – within this small Christian community. So why are Manitoba’s leaders…
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