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BOLIVIA WOMEN'S COLLABORATIVE REPORT
TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON TORTURE REGARDING
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE,
FEMICIDE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, JUSTICE
In January of 2013,
WHO/ PAHO pointed out that Bolivia is the Latin America country with the
highest level of violence and indicates that the 53% of women claim to have
suffered some type of physical or sexual violence.
UN Committee on
Torture Session including Review of the Report of Bolivia: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=790&Lang=en
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Direct Link to Full 9-Page Women's
Collaborative Report to the UN - April 15, 2013:
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VI. SUGGESTION OF RECOMMENDATIONS
· To implement Single System for Complaint Registration,disaggregated by sex and age, to give visibility to the magnitude of the violence against women in all the national territory, since the data in civil society only reach, for the moment, the urban area.
· To install, as soon as possible, Specialized Courts of Violence to Women, to be able to track cases causes.
· To design and implement a basic training curriculum and awareness to operators and administrators of justice in human rights of women.
· To implement a Law on Sexual and Reproductive Rights that incorporates in its articles a free and safe service for the interruption of pregnancy when the woman so requires. As well the strengthening in the execution of programs and policies of family planning and reproductive health to provide effective access to women and adolescents, especially in rural areas, to the information on the care and health services, particularly in the area of reproductive health and affordable contraceptive methods.
· To take effective measures to solve the problem of the high rate of maternal mortality by ensuring the adequate medical care during pregnancy, childbirth, and proceed to the regulation of the legal provisions in force, concerning the right to therapeutic abortion in women and enable women to access to quality services for the attention of the complications derived from unsafe abortions in conditions of risk.
· To implement specific strategies and public policies that have an impact on a change in attitudes of the population as a whole, in the
denaturalization of violence against girls and adolescents, as well as the promotion of policies for prevention and sensitive and timely care for the victims of these crimes. Also, the State must install systems and mechanisms of community protection.
· To
make viable reforms to the Criminal Code, the Code for Children and
Adolescents, and implement protocols of care without re-victimization at the
· To give free comprehensive coverage of the services in physical, sexual and reproductive and mental health to women victims of sexual violence.
· To amend the Criminal Code with regard to the court order as a requirement for women who are pregnant, according to article 266°, to access to safe abortion in health facilities.
· Ensure
that women, children and adolescents in situations of sexual violence can
access emergency
oral contraception.