On October 30, as part of the “Abre los ojos” initiative launched by Bolivisión, Ipas Bolivia, the Ombudsman’s Office, and other public institutions and civil society organizations joined forces to launch the national campaign “¿Quién paga la cuenta?” (Who Pays the...
On Friday, September 25 , the project “University Students in Action: Networks for the Prevention and Care of Vulnerable Populations Free from Violence” concluded in the auditorium of the Social Work Department at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) . The...
On September 28, Ipas Bolivia and the Ombudsman’s Office held an event in La Paz titled “Presentation and Analysis of Plurinational Constitutional Ruling 0111/2026-S3,” an event that brought together institutions and civil society organizations to analyze the scope of...
On September 3, authorities and representatives of public institutions gathered in La Paz for the First National Inter-institutional Roundtable Against Child, Early, and Forced Marriages and Unions (MUITF). The meeting was convened by the Human Rights Commission of...
From September 2 to 4, 2026, Ipas Bolivia held a workshop titled “Training of Trainers (TOT) on Comprehensive Care for Victims of Sexual Violence, Legal Termination of Pregnancy, and Post-Obstetric Contraception.” The workshop brought together 12 health professionals...
From July 20 to 24, Ipas Bolivia hosted representatives from Ipas United States and Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC), as part of a working agenda aimed at strengthening regional coordination and building a collaborative vision that will promote the...
Bogotá, Colombia - November 2025. The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2025) brought together representatives from more than 200 countries in a space for exchange on advances, challenges and innovations in sexual and reproductive health and rights. In...
Bolivia faces a high rate of obstetric violence that puts the health and dignity of thousands of women at risk. With one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America, 59.8% of Bolivian women also face mistreatment and discrimination during pregnancy,...
The Director of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Gender and Juvenile Crimes, Alejandra Rocha, informed on Wednesday that according to the registry of cases entered in the Free Justice Ecosystem of the Public Ministry, from January 1 to June 24, there are 24,126 cases of Gender Violence related to the Integral Law to Guarantee Women a Life Free of Violence in the country.
Bolivia has registered in the last 10 years 4,804 marriages of adolescents between 16 and 17 years of age, while unions of girls between 12 and 15 years of age total 487, in addition to 458,246 pregnancies of minors, according to the report ‘Interrupted Dreams’ presented by the Ombudsman’s Office.
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Bolivia dropped to 2.1 children per woman in 2023, according to data from the Demographic and Health Survey (EDSA) 2023, conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) with the support of the United Nations Population Fund...
For years, a minor was sexually abused by her brother-in-law, with whom she fathered two children, in Oruro. It all began when she was just 14 years old, after her sister, the aggressor's wife, convinced her parents to send her to live with them to help with the...
In the country, the number of women, aged 15-49, who opted for family planning with the use of contraceptive methods increased in the last four years, from 162,803, in 2020, to 246,436, in 2023, representing 51%.
In the country, the number of women, aged 15-49, who opted for family planning with the use of contraceptive methods increased in the last four years, from 162,803, in 2020, to 246,436, in 2023, representing 51%.
Eleven years have passed since a constitutional ruling marked an important step forward in access to Legal Termination of Pregnancy (ILE). However, gaps still exist within the country's health system. The Ombudsman's Office conducted an investigation in 2024,...
The Departmental Legislative Assembly of Santa Cruz authorized the disbursement of Bs 8 million for the construction of a shelter for women and children victims of violence. The project is implemented in compliance with National Law No. 348 and allows for a rapid...
La Paz, April 24, 2025 (ANF) – Beatings in sensitive areas of the body, deprivation of food and water, death threats and rape with objects are some of the tortures that are still practiced in Bolivia against people in police custody.
La Paz, April 20, 2025 (ABI) – Accompanied by severe pain in her lower abdomen, she got her first menstruation when she was barely 12 years old. When she discovered that her underwear was stained with blood, she was frightened and ran to tell her mother.
The lack of comprehensive sexuality education and specific regulations are pending tasks in Bolivia against teenage pregnancy, a problem that in official figures reports decreases, but which is still a cause for concern due to the number of cases that still occur and which mainly involve girls under 14 years of age.
In Bolivia, an average of 19 reports of sexual violence against minors are registered every day. In 2024 alone, 6,868 cases of child sexual abuse and 38 infanticides were reported, according to official data.
