Bolivia: Information on the protection and assistance available to adult female victims of sexual abuse
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 August 1996 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | BOL24705.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Bolivia: Information on the protection and assistance available to adult female victims of sexual abuse, 1 August 1996, BOL24705.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abaa1c.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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Please find attached documents providing information on, and criticism of the legal status of incest and other forms of sexual and domestic violence, as well as information on women's associations and organizations in Bolivia.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
Encyclopedia of Women's Associations Worldwide. 1993. Edited by Jacqueline K. Barrett. London: Gale Research International Ltd. pp. 116-18.
Montaño, Julieta and Montaño, Sonia. 1993. "Reforms in Bolivia's Legislation Regarding the Offense of Rape," Women: Watched and Punished. Edited by Roxana Vasquez. Lima: Latin American Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights, pp. 135-43.
Montaño, Julieta. 1986. "Bolivia: Legal Assistance to Poor Women," Empowerment and the Law: Strategies of Third World Women. Edited by Margaret Schuler. Washington, DC: OEF International, pp. 326-28.
Montaño, Sonia. 1992. "Long Live the Differences, With Equal Rights: A Campaign to End Violence Against Women in Bolivia," Freedom from Violence: Women's Strategies From Around the World. Edited by Margaret Schuler. Washington: OEF International, pp. 213-27.
International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW). December 1994. 1995 IWRAW to CEDAW Country Reports on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mauritius, Norway, Peru, Russian Federation, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Uganda. Minneapolis, MN: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, pp. 5-11.