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…
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Bolivia Church Clashes With Govt in Scathing Attack on Drug Corruption
InSight Crime reports: Bolivia Church Clashes With Govt in Scathing Attack on Drug Corruption Written by Mimi Yagoub A pastoral letter by members of Bolivia’s Catholic Church has spoken out against drug trafficking and consumption in the country, controversially laying part of the blame on the nation’s “corrupt” government and security forces. The letter by…
Body of Slain Woman Found Buried in Bolivian Prison Cell
Associated Press reports for ABC News: Body of Slain Woman Found Buried in Bolivian Prison Cell An inmate apparently killed his ex-wife and buried her beneath his cell in Bolivia’s largest prison — with nobody taking notice for nearly a year, officials said Thursday. Chief prosecutor Gomer Padilla told The Associated Press that the body…
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…
Bolivia struggles with gender-based violence
Bolivia struggles with gender-based violence The death of María Isabel Pillco illustrates how far the country has to go in changing a culture of domestic abuse April 30, 2015 5:00AM ET by Sara Shahriari LA PAZ, Bolivia — María Isabel Pillco’s body lay on a table in the city morgue. A doctor was conducting an…
Bolivian Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra is honored by the USA
The USA gave a recognition award to Ms. Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra, Founder and Director, Oficina Jurídica para la Mujer (Bolivia), here some excerpts of a well deserved award! [Our Julieta Montano is third from the right] [… now follows the remarks made about our Bolivian pride:] [by] DEPUTY SECRETARY HIGGINBOTTOM: … Rosa Julieta Montano…
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