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La Paz, Oct 14 (EFE).- Municipal budgets for investments in gender equality and equity in Bolivia were reduced in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a decrease of 22.5 percent compared to the previous year, according to a study presented Thursday in the Bolivian capital.The data is reflected in the Investment Ranking for Gender Equality and Equity (IIEG) collected by the Gregoria Apaza Women's Promotion Center, the Colectivo Rebeldía, the Women's Coordinator, the Integral Women's Training Institute and Oxfam with funding of the Government of Canada. (Camera: GINA BALDIVIESO).B-ROLL OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE INVESTMENT RANKING FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND EQUITY (IIEG) DATA IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.
La Paz, Mar 11 (EFE) .- (Camera: Yolanda Salazar) A group of indigenous Aymara women from Bolivia proposes to punish infidelity with jail and include it in the law to guarantee a life free of violence, since in their opinion it is a determining factor for many men in rural areas to abandon them and carry out other types of violence against them.FOOTAGE OF AYMARA WOMEN IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
La Paz, Mar 8 (EFE) .- (CAMERA: Gina Baldivieso) Music, singing and dances were part of the four-hour sit-in starring Bolivian artists from different areas who took a space in a central La Paz promenade to raise their voices against sexist violence in the arts and culture.
Lima (Peru), Jun 30 (EFE), (Camera: Mikhail Huacán).- The Continental Network of Indigenous Women (ECMIA) denounces the situation of indigenous women in the Americas since they suffer triple discrimination: women, indigenous and poor. SOUNDBITES OFTARCILA RIVERA, COORDINATOR AT THE CONTINENTAL NETWORK OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN (ECMIA):"As indigenous women, we use the term 'acts of violence' in plural since as you said expulsion from their territories is a form of violence. We also suffer domestic violence, sexual violence, racism - which, for us, is a brutal act of violence that hurts self-esteem- and sadly we have registered for more than 350 rapes (girls and boys) during lockdown."
San Jose, Dec 3 (EFE-EPA) .- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, spoke up Tuesday on the outstanding debt Latin American has with black women, who have been "invisible" and "culturally discriminated against."(CAMERA: Douglas Marín) SOUNDBITES FROM THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, MICHELLE BACHELET, AND THE VICE PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA, EPSY CAMPBELLMICHELLE BACHELET: "During the last decade, our region has witnessed unprecedented growth in the number of women in positions of power. It is not enough, but it is an important growth. Despite this growth, the political presence of women in Decision-making positions remains low if we consider that women represent 50 percent of the population, and even more worrying is that in this process of the feminization of democracy in Latin America, it has not benefited all equally. An insufficient number of indigenous and Afro-descendant women have managed to reach positions of decision-making, public office and be part of the lists of political parties, that number is unable to reflect the demographic weight of Afro-descendant women in our countries. Invisibility of Afro-descendant women in decision-making strata is a consequence of Structural discrimination in our Latin American societies. Discrimination against access to quality education, higher education, health services, decent work, and salary. This lack of access to human rights is the reflection of even more complex and pernicious discrimination created by the intersection between gender, skin color, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. "EPSY CAMPBELL: "Afro-descendant women, as you know, face an absolutely complex reality with a proven disadvantage with respect to the general population and women in particular. In the whole region, this situation is observed with higher unemployment rates, with less access to productive resources, with structural and institutional violence, in access to health, housing, and general well-being. I turned out to be the first Afro-descendant woman vice president of the continent, several of you have turn out to be the first to open the doors, historically those issues have to stay in the past, it has to be normal for Afro-descendant women, indigenous women, rural women to participate actively in decision-making at national and international level. Today our representation in public and political life throughout the region is absolutely symbolic, and it is insignificant if we take as a reference that in the American continent and the Caribbean 200 million people of African descent live here, we represent a third of the population of this region."
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