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What’s stopping Bolivia from banning child marriage?

26.03.25 | Our Country

Ombudsman: Application of abortion strengthens women’s human rights

24.03.25 | Our Country

Maternal death is invisible and in some contexts only the tip of the iceberg is observed.

08.03.25 | Our Country

Public Prosecutor’s Office carries out technical roundtable on health and sexual violence to strengthen investigations

28.02.25 | Our Country

Gender-based violence: an inescapable challenge in the 2025 electoral process

28.02.25 | Our Country

Campaign to prevent teenage pregnancies begins in El Alto

28.02.25 | Our Country

For a ‘transformative’ agenda, 300 women from all over the country meet in La Paz

20.02.25 | Our Country

Child marriage: In 11 years, 6,001 teenagers aged 16 and 17 got married

04.02.25 | Our Country

In one month, the country has eight femicides and one infanticide

30.01.25 | Our Country

Institutions reinforce comprehensive care for victims of sexual violence

27.01.25 | Our Country

Bolivia considers eliminating marriage between minors under 18 years of age

27.01.25 | Our Country

La Fiscalía de Bolivia registró 50.325 casos de violencia de género durante 2024

The Bolivian Public Prosecutor’s Office registered 50,325 cases of gender violence during 2024.

03.01.25 | Our Country

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The Public Prosecutor’s Office implements five offices to attend to victims of gender violence in La Paz

02.01.25 | Our Country

Bolivia 2024: 4 crímenes de odio y por primera vez un asesinato contra mujer trans se juzgó como femicidio

Bolivia 2024: 4 hate crimes and for the first time a murder against a trans woman was tried as femicide

26.12.24 | Our Country

Madres forzadas y agresores desconocidos: violación a personas con discapacidad

Forced mothers and unknown perpetrators: rape of people with disabilities

22.12.24 | Our Country

Ipas Bolivia promotes the bill against child marriage that is moving forward with the Chamber of Deputies after its approval in the Senate.

16.06.25 | Ipas in Action

Ipas Bolivia leads inter-institutional meeting to reinforce commitment to comprehensive care for victims of sexual violence

23.05.25 | Ipas in Action

RedActora consolidates as a journalistic voice for Sexual and Reproductive Rights

12.05.25 | Ipas in Action

More than 153 cases attended to in Ipas Bolivia’s Mobile Legal Clinics

05.05.25 | Ipas in Action

BOLIVIA TAKES HISTORIC STEP AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE: SENATE APPROVES LAW TO ELIMINATE EXCEPTIONS FROM 16 YEARS OF AGE

23.04.25 | Ipas in Action

Campaign “Neither wives nor concubines. Girls are girls” campaign is relaunched with Bolivision in a live social media event.

11.04.25 | Ipas in Action

Socialization of a bill to eliminate exceptions to marry or register a union before the age of 18 in Bolivia

09.04.25 | Ipas in Action

Brand Day: Ipas Bolivia reinforces consistent use of its institutional identity

08.04.25 | Ipas in Action

Ipas Bolivia and Canada strengthen youth digital leadership to combat gender violence

07.03.25 | Ipas in Action

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La Portada students lead march against violence after Ipas Bolivia trainings

05.03.25 | Ipas in Action

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Ipas Bolivia stresses urgency of actions against sexual violence against girls and adolescents at the MERCOSUR Social Summit

05.03.25 | Ipas in Action

Ipas Bolivia, with support from Sweden, promotes human rights-based journalistic coverage of sexual violence

17.02.25 | Ipas in Action

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Ipas Bolivia and the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz lead discussion to improve attention to sexual crimes

29.01.25 | Ipas in Action

Group of people at an event in Bolivia

What time is it? campaign at FIPAZ 2024: Ipas Bolivia and Red Bolivisión join forces to promote SRHR

14.12.24 | Ipas in Action

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“More healthy men, less violence”: An initiative led by Ipas Bolivia to involve men in violence prevention.

15.11.24 | Ipas in Action

Positive monitoring of compliance with Argentina’s legal abortion law

22.05.25 | International

Latin America and the Caribbean: Every day 30 adolescents and young people become infected with HIV for the first time

22.05.25 | International

“Only one country in the world has fully decriminalized abortion.”

08.12.23 | International

Child marriage in Bolivia: Complaints reach the IACHR

08.12.23 | International

Latin America and the Caribbean: Every day 30 adolescents and young people become infected with HIV for the first time

01.12.23 | International

New rape statistics in Brazil demonstrate the importance of sex education

27.07.23 | International

Positive monitoring of compliance with Argentina’s legal abortion law

26.07.23 | International

United States approved for the first time the sale of a contraceptive pill without prescription

17.07.23 | International

80% of men who attend gender violence programs in CABA do not register new complaints.

19.07.22 | International

Día de la Niñez y Adolescencia de las Américas: CIDH urge a los Estados a garantizar educación libre de violencia sexual

Day of Children and Adolescents of the Americas: IACHR Urges States to Guarantee Education Free of Sexual Violence

20.06.22 | International

Urgen políticas para enfrentar el embarazo adolescente en Latinoamérica, dice un experto

Urgent need for policies to address teen pregnancy in Latin America, says expert

12.05.22 | International

Latin American women are winning the fight for legal abortion

05.05.22 | International

Legal abortion advances, except in the U.S. (and Bolivia)

04.05.22 | International

WHO speaks out in favor of abortion rights

04.05.22 | International

Reproductive rights are the basis for women’s empowerment, says the UN

03.05.22 | International