Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for a former president accused of statutory rape and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales, in office between 2006 and 2019, is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years-old. The girl's parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for unspecified 'political favours', the lawsuit claims" (para 1-3). "According to the lawsuit, the unnamed victim was a member of his political youth guard in 2015, when he is claimed to have started a sexual relationship with her. In 2016, the girl gave...more

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1

"She helps lead the Association of Women in Construction (Asomuc), a group of about 60 builders fighting for equal opportunities and advocating for new legislation" (para 3). "To advocate for the rights of the female workforce, a group of women, who met during training sessions run by Red Hábitat, a non-governmental organisation working on urban resilience, set up Asomuc in December 2014. It achieved legal status in September 2017 and has organised additional training from various organisations in construction work as well as business" (para 9).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1

"Not long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she found herself hiding in the bathroom to escape her male colleagues’ sexist abuse. 'Women in construction are viewed badly,' says Quispe. 'Men say we harm them and distract them. It’s incredible that these attitudes still exist. There is a lot of discrimination, and on top of that women earn a lot less than men'" (para 1-2). "An estimated 21,000 women work in construction in Bolivia, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), amounting to about 4.5% of the 471,000-strong workforce. Almost two thirds are unpaid, says the ILO; some women accompany their husbands. Many are single mothers,...more

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: ASR-PRACTICE-1

"'I studied to be an electrical technician in my 30s as an act of rebellion,' she says. 'When I left school, I wanted to study civil engineering but unfortunately my father didn’t let me. His dream was that I be a secretary. I studied to be a secretary, gave him my certificate and left it there.' Vedia married a few years later and took night classes with the support of her husband, an industrial engineer, before starting construction work" (para 10-11).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"The ombudsman’s office in Bolivia has condemned threats against a 10-year-old rape victim and her family after teachers and school staff tried to prevent the arrest of the alleged rapist, a 39-year-old male headteacher, by trying to invade a local police station and scuffling with police officers. Videos posted on social media show the group gathered outside the police station, trying to pressure the prosecutor and judge to release the alleged perpetrator" (para 1-2). "'We reject all expressions that violate the rights of the victim and her family,' Bolivia’s ombudsman’s office said in a statement, following reports that the family of the victim had received threats and demonstrators had accused...more

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRCM-DATA-1

"In a historic verdict, the inter-American court of human rights found the Bolivian government to be 'internationally responsible' for violating De Angulo’s rights to justice when, aged 15, she was repeatedly raped over a period of months by a relative" (para 13).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"Bolivia has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America. In 2021, the country had one of the highest incidences of femicide in South America. In a 2016 study, 75% of women living in urban areas and 71% in rural areas reported having suffered some type of violence at the hands of their partner" (par. 15).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1

"The life-defining event pushed Diaz to learn how to drive, buy a car and work for Mujeres al Volante (Women at the Wheel), a taxi service exclusively for children, women and older people, for three years" (par. 5). This suggest that women have the ability to learn how to drive (IME - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1

"Linea Lila is one strand of a series of offerings from the Central for Productive and Entrepreneurial Women of El Alto (Cemupe), an organisation founded in response to the murder of a woman. It also provides training in areas such as makeup, nails, flower arranging, baking and food services" (par. 14). This suggest that murder is an issue they are trying to combat (IME - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1, TRAFF-PRACTICE-3

"The first hint that something was wrong came when Jacqueline Diaz received a call at work from a friend. 'You need to come here, to my shop, now. It’s urgent,' she was told. Diaz rushed to her friend’s shop in La Paz, Bolivia, where she found her daughter, Michelle, who was 12 at the time, crying and in shock. That morning, on her way to school, a van had pulled up, the door opened and two men pulled her inside before speeding off. Michelle managed to escape by jumping out of the vehicle when it slowed down going over an unpaved section of road. When she stopped running, she recognised...more

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1, LRCM-PRACTICE-2

"Brisa [victim of sexual violence], like 1 in 3 girls in Bolivia, is a survivor of sexual violence. Raped repeatedly for months by an adult family member when she was 15, Brisa endured three legal trials in Bolivia but did not get the justice she deserved. Instead, she faced inhuman treatment from the Bolivian courts. In 2010, Brisa brought her case in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which later concluded that the State had failed to properly investigate and prosecute her case, and in doing so, violated her internationally protected human rights" (para 3, 4). "Brisa’s [survivor of sexual violence] intention in taking her case to...more

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2, RISW-PRACTICE-1

"Brisa’s [survivor of sexual violence] intention in taking her case to the IACtHR was to request a significant and sustainable change in the laws and the criminal justice system, in education, and in the responsibility of the Bolivian State to prevent and address sexual violence so other survivors will not encounter the same injustices and revictimization that she experienced" (para 7). "It [the verdict in Brisa De Angulo Losada v. Bolivia] is a model decision guaranteeing non-repetition measures by establishing legal changes, implementation, training, and prevention through comprehensive sexual education, alongside other very concrete measures that Bolivia must comply with and implement" (para 9). "'This [the verdict in Brisa De...more

Countries: Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, El Salvador, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Panama, South Korea, Suriname, Thailand, Venezuela
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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Countries: Bolivia
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Bolivia ranks as a Tier 2 Watch List country (85).

Countries: Bolivia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Bolivia who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 42 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).