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FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN BOLIVIA

At Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Bolivia, we commit to continue to put political pressure on our government to ensure that abortion is legal, accessible, safe and available as part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services, seeking the elimination of any regulation that restricts or penalizes it, preventing deaths due to unsafe abortions and ensuring the pre- and post-abortion care and services necessary. We also commit to continue working on the social fabric that...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Mode of engagement:

• Change or creation of legislation

Youth inclusion

Promote the application, execution and implementation of the regulations on youth through the competent bodies of the Plurinational State of Bolivia by 2022, with the aim of addressing, in a comprehensive and inclusive manner, spaces for discussion, information and the creation of technical and technological knowledge for the consolidation of a movement built by young people, which drives budgetary allocation towards specific public policies that are linked to the development of the country...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Implementation of the Pando Departmental Plan for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Pregnancy

The Pando Departmental Plan for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Pregnancy is a public policy that arose from the latent need to reduce the high rates of pregnancy in this vulnerable group. Pando tops the national statistics at 32.4 per cent (INE 2016)

For three years, with UNFPA support, the health, education and justice sectors and the head of the Autonomous Government of Pando have worked to draw up a public policy that aims to help reduce adolescent pregnancy and child...

(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Fulfilment of regional and global commitments adopted with regard to sexual and reproductive rights

Respect, protect and ensure the human rights of all people, without discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or sexual characteristics, to fulfil the various commitments made by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, through the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General’s Office, as well as the monitoring bodies and mechanisms, responding to the periodic recommendations of international organizations and the mandates of international instruments relating to the human...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

ACCESS TO COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION

Urge the Ministry of Education and the competent bodies of the Plurinational State of Bolivia until the 2022 administration to approve public policies with the allocation of sufficient technical and financial resources for the implementation of permanent programmes for secular comprehensive sexuality education at all levels of the regular and alternative education systems in urban and rural areas, from early childhood, respecting the progressive autonomy of children and adolescents by...

(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Move towards the full decriminalization of abortion in Bolivia.

By 2030, improve universal access to sexual and reproductive rights and health for all women, demanding and promoting the elimination of all legal, socioeconomic and cultural barriers and urging the Plurinational State of Bolivia to ensure access to freely available, safe, legal and free-of-charge abortion to all women who require it, whether campesina, indigenous, intercultural, rural, urban, young, adolescent or adult, contributing to a significant reduction and/or elimination of maternal...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Mode of engagement:

• Change or creation of legislation

ICPD AND 2030 AGENDA

In general, we commit to stepping up our efforts to mobilize resources to ensure the funding and effective, accelerated and full implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs).

Zero maternal deaths

We therefore commit to maximizing our efforts to achieve “zero” preventable maternal deaths.

Intersectional actions

We therefore commit to incorporating comprehensive, effective and intersectional actions on health, mental health, and sexual and reproductive rights in the programmes, policies and strategies in the framework of universal health coverage and comprehensive sex education, including the legal termination of pregnancy, in accordance with the regulatory framework in force.

Autonomy, self-determination and self-perception

We therefore commit to supporting the notions of autonomy, self-determination, self-perception and personal bodily integrity, ensuring and promoting the exercise of rights, in particular gender identity and sexual orientation rights, for all people.