LA PAZ, BOLIVIA/NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 11, 2020 - On August 7th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced that it has referred the case of Brisa Liliana de Ángulo Lozada to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Court).

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA/NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 11, 2020 - On August 7th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced that it has referred the case of Brisa Liliana de Ángulo Lozada to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Court).

Adolescent girls are disproportionately vulnerable to human rights abuses that can have severe and long-lasting consequences. At the same time girls generally lack a support system through which they can protest abuses and attempt to access justice. 

Adolescent girls are disproportionately vulnerable to human rights abuses that can have severe and long-lasting consequences. At the same time girls generally lack a support system through which they can protest abuses and attempt to access justice. 

Adolescent girls are disproportionately vulnerable to human rights abuses that can have severe and long lasting consequences. At the same time girls generally lack a support system through which they can protest abuses and attempt to access justice.

Adolescent girls are disproportionately vulnerable to human rights abuses that can have severe and long lasting consequences. At the same time girls generally lack a support system through which they can protest abuses and attempt to access justice.

In a succinct and powerful judgment the Court found that the government had not only put in place a discriminatory policy prohibiting pregnant girls from school but had also failed to put in place measures to reduce teenage pregnancies in line with their own government policies which were adopted after the civil war.

In a succinct and powerful judgment the Court found that the government had not only put in place a discriminatory policy prohibiting pregnant girls from school but had also failed to put in place measures to reduce teenage pregnancies in line with their own government policies which were adopted after the civil war.

Young people in Bolivia are coming together like never before to call for an end to the country’s epidemic of sexual violence.

Young people in Bolivia are coming together like never before to call for an end to the country’s epidemic of sexual violence.

This submission deals with our concerns with regard to definitions of sexual violence crimes enabling impunity for perpetrators, legal provisions allowing impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence, failure to provide mandatory prosecution for sexual violence, and further harm to adolescent girl survivors of sexual violence and forced marriage. 

This submission deals with our concerns with regard to definitions of sexual violence crimes enabling impunity for perpetrators, legal provisions allowing impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence, failure to provide mandatory prosecution for sexual violence, and further harm to adolescent girl survivors of sexual violence and forced marriage. 

This submission to Bolivia's Universal Periodic Review by the Human Rights Council details concerns regarding Bolivia’s failure to protect adolescent girls from sexual violence and provide survivors access to justice.

This submission to Bolivia's Universal Periodic Review by the Human Rights Council details concerns regarding Bolivia’s failure to protect adolescent girls from sexual violence and provide survivors access to justice.

This past 13-16 of February 2019, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 171 Period of Sessions in Sucre, Bolivia. Equality Now was there meeting with the Commissioners and supporting partner organizations and young survivors of sexual violence to tell Commissioners about the problem of sexual violence against girls, boys and adolescents in Bolivia, and the barriers to justice and care they face. 

This past 13-16 of February 2019, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 171 Period of Sessions in Sucre, Bolivia. Equality Now was there meeting with the Commissioners and supporting partner organizations and young survivors of sexual violence to tell Commissioners about the problem of sexual violence against girls, boys and adolescents in Bolivia, and the barriers to justice and care they face. 

This submission deals with Paraguay’s obligation to address its high prevalence of sexual violence and forced pregnancy against young and adolescent girls under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (“CEDAW”).

This submission deals with Paraguay’s obligation to address its high prevalence of sexual violence and forced pregnancy against young and adolescent girls under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (“CEDAW”).