“Can I get pregnant on my first time?”. “How can I take care of myself and how can my sweetheart take care of herself so that she doesn’t get pregnant?”. “What birth control methods can I use?”. Teenagers ask these kinds of questions.

Stabbed, bled to death and forgotten. This is how Noelia, a 21-year-old trans woman, died on April 30 in a hostel in the city of Oruro. She was the victim of the hatred of her aggressor, a teenager with homophobic tendencies who planned the crime days before even meeting her.

In the last nine years, teenage pregnancies decreased from 82,416, in 2015, to 32,660, in 2023, according to data from the National Health Information System (SNIS), of the Ministry of Health. This decrease represents a 39% decrease in teenage pregnancies.

In the 1970’s, women in Bolivia had an average of 7.5 children and today this figure has dropped to 2.1, according to information provided yesterday by the director of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Humberto Arandia, during the presentation of the Population and Housing Census data.

A Google 2023 report detected a case of child sexual exploitation in Bolivia. The case was investigated and a 22-year-old man from the city of La Paz, who allegedly abused underage family members, was apprehended.

Between January 1 and August 18, 30,699 cases of violence related to Law 348, to Guarantee Women a Life Free of Violence were registered. Of this figure, 75% is concentrated in the central axis of the country, i.e. Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba.

The fact that a child or adolescent cannot sleep well, does not want to greet certain people, including family members, isolation, self-injurious behaviors, aggressiveness, poor academic performance and others may be behaviors that derive from sexual violence.

The Bolivian Ombudsman’s Office called on Friday to remain on “national alert” due to the “marked increase” in cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents in the last year. The entity promoted walks on this day in cities such as La Paz and Cochabamba,

A recent report by the Ombudsman’s Office revealed that since 2014, 487 marriages of girls and 4,804 teenage marriages were registered, all with the consent of the underage girls’ parents.

At the Central Affairs Informed Breakfast, the representative of the Casa de la Mujer, Paola García, revealed that some 24,000 complaints of gender violence were received between January and June of this year, an average of 137 per day.

The Bolivian Attorney General’s Office reported on Monday that in the first six months of 2024, 45 femicides and 19 infanticides were reported, and that in most cases the perpetrators are in pretrial detention. The director of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Life and Personal Integrity, Elizabeth Viveros, reported that in the first half of the year there were 45 femicides, of which most are concentrated in La Paz (11).

Bolivia registered 4,804 marriages of adolescents between 16 and 17 years of age in the last 10 years, while marriages of girls between 12 and 15 years of age totaled 487, in addition to 458,246 pregnancies of minors, according to the report “Interrupted Dreams” presented Tuesday by the Ombudsman’s Office.

Inadequate infrastructure, insufficient health care and lack of access to higher education are some of the factors that affect the rights of women prisoners. This situation is due to the lack of a gender focus in the prison system, said researcher and lawyer Luisa Chipana.

In the home of Adriana, a 20-year-old woman, no one knew she was going to have an abortion. Her parents found out shortly before she died from a perforated uterus and severe infection, the result of a botched procedure.

From January 1st to May 29th, 35 women were murdered because of their gender. They were victims of femicide and the department of La Paz is the most dangerous in the country for women. The updated report includes the last two cases of femicides, one occurred in the highlands of La Paz, in the municipality of Achacachi, and the other in Charcas, Chuquisaca.

99.3% of cases of gender violence go unpunished in Bolivia due to rejection, abandonment or dismissal of the complaints, according to activists who have protested against the reform of the law against gender violence proposed by pro-government senators who consider the law to be “anti-men”.

The country, through the Ministry of Health and Sports (MSyD), in coordination with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and an official mission of the Latin American Center for Perinatology, Women’s Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP/SMR), trained facilitators to promote the strategy.

sario (name changed) was discriminated against and mistreated a few years ago, because she needed surgery and they did not want to perform it because she was diagnosed with HIV.

The legal termination of pregnancy (ILE) was consolidated in an 11-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle in a rural community in the municipality of Betanzos. This means that the rape victim was subjected to a surgical abortion procedure in accordance with the regulations in force.