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.

“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.