The Attorney General’s Office reported that the highest incidence of these crimes is registered in the central axis of the country. The number is higher than last year.

The Attorney General of the State, Roger Mariaca Montenegro, inaugurated this Monday the Interinstitutional Discussion and Working Groups, aimed at improving coordination between the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the health area in the care of victims of sexual crimes.

The Minister of Justice, César Siles, assured that these two commitments and other challenges posed by the United Nations will be met.

Bolivia reported 50,325 cases of violence against women and minors during 2024, most of them complaints of family or domestic violence, reported Friday the Attorney General’s Office.

With four violent murders of trans women, 2024 has become the most violent year, in which for the first time there was a classification as femicide. Among the few advances of this administration are the administrative ones, which achieved the coverage of health insurance within the free unions.

Karla (name changed for protection) is the mother of a baby girl. She did not choose to have a baby; she was a victim of sexual violence. He was unable to report it at the time, because he is a person with intellectual disabilities, his family found out about the situation when

The departmental prosecutor of Oruro, Aldo Morales, informed this Tuesday about the case of a 16 year-old minor who lost her life after having an abortion in a medical center in the city of Oruro.

In order to reduce the risks of sexual violence against children and adolescents, the non-governmental organization Ipas Bolivia began a digital campaign aimed at this sector.

In order to prevent early and forced child marriages and unions, an awareness campaign is being developed in Bolivia, but focused on the departments of Pando, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Beni.

Two pieces of information set alarm bells ringing about the need for awareness and prevention. Forty-two percent of the accumulated cases of HIV-AIDS are concentrated in Santa Cruz and the increase in cases among adolescents and young people between 15 and 24 years of age is a cause for concern.

This Saturday, more than 100 women from Chile, Peru and Bolivia gathered in the city of Arica to participate in the Binational Meeting of Women for the Elimination of Violence, a key event for the exchange of experiences, strengthening of bonds

With the presentation of a work project, the Education Committee for the prevention of teenage pregnancies in El Alto was formed this Monday.
This commission, formed by several instances,

“The Ministry of Education rejects and repudiates these facts and we will not allow them to go unpunished, we will work from the Departmental and District Directorates of Education to demand the corresponding authorities to investigate and punish according to the laws in force,” said Pary, in an interview with Bolivia Tv.

Senator Virginia Velasco socialized in the city of Cobija, Pando, the draft bill of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights Law at the Teacher Training College. The legislator informed that the purpose of the bill is to establish the legal framework for the adoption of...

A lower participation in the labor market with a high opportunity cost are some of the aspects analyzed in a study on teenage pregnancy in Bolivia, which recommends improving prevention strategies and implementing “comprehensive sexuality education” in the country.

The Ombudsman’s Office, through the Departmental Ombudsman Delegation of Santa Cruz, presented the ombudsman’s report “Interrupted Dreams”, which exposes the violations of the human rights of children and adolescents.

From 2020 to date, in Bolivia, 7,181 complaints were registered for statutory rape, a crime whose validity was observed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court). The body will detect that it is the cause of impunity in crimes that,

The Germán Urquidi Maternity Hospital attends 3 to 5 patients with advanced stage cervical uterine cancer every week. This was reported by the director of the hospital, Antonio Pardo, who also described the current situation as “alarming”.

Bolivia is part of the first Advisory Board on Gender Equity of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), through Ambassador Maira Macdonal, the country’s representative to international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.