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 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.