The result of perpetual rights violations by the Bolivian government against its people has fueled a palpable sense of desperation and anger throughout the country. Abuse of women and children is widespread and goes unreported or unpunished. Women's individual, economic, and social rights are inferior, severely limiting their ability to be agents for economic and social change.

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To address these human rights issues, FSD works with community-based organizations in Cochabamba to:

• Develop informational campaigns and workshops regarding citizens' rights for children, adolescents, and women.
• Educate and inform community members about the lives of young girls and women living in the streets of Cochabamba.
• Provide legal counseling and promote civil rights for victims of sexual and physical abuse, as well as those suffering from HIV/AIDS.
• Implement public policy campaigns geared toward health and education reform.
• Lobby government at the municipal, departmental, and national levels with concrete policy proposals regarding human rights, education reform, and public health.
• Provide environmental legal consulting for the purpose of shifting local land use policies.
• Offer holistic sociophysical recuperation, education, counseling, and health support to women and children who suffer from intra-familial abuse.
• Help foster and adoptive families provide homes for abused children.
• Provide training for at-risk girls to assertively exercise their rights and responsibilities.

Read more about Human Rights programs and opportunities initiated by our Community Partners in Bolivia.

For a description of the opportunities available in each development subject we address in Bolivia, click on the links below:

Microfinance & Microenterprise • Environmental Sustainability • Child & Maternal Health
Youth Education & Development • Gender Equity • Applied Technology • Human Rights

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