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• Women (Bolivia)

  Feminism, labor and precarity in Bolivia

  20 June, by CHAVEZ Marxa N., LOPEZ PARDO Claudia

  Stencil and drawing with in and pencil crayons @ Lorena K for Ojalá.
  The neoliberal period began in Bolivia in 1985, a year forever inscribed in popular memory. The population did not passively accept the changes in capital accumulation but responded with widespread mobilization and protest. (…)

• Women (Bolivia)

  Culture of domestic abuse: Bolivia struggles with gender-based violence

  30 April 2015, by SHAHRIARI Sara

  The death of María Isabel Pillco illustrates how far the country has to go in changing a culture of domestic abuse.
  LA PAZ, Bolivia — María Isabel Pillco’s body lay on a table in the city morgue. A doctor was conducting an autopsy on it, peeling back layers of skin and tissue. It was early (…)

• Women (Bolivia)

  Violent attacks against elected female leaders: Bolivian women battle against culture of harassment

  12 March 2014, by BBC

  Bolivian women have been staging protests against the high levels of violence inflicted on women.
  Two years after the murder of an outspoken female councillor ushered in new legislation outlawing political violence against women in Bolivia, campaigners say a culture of harassment remains, as (…)