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Description of the constitutional regulation on the equality of women and men and its jurisprudential and legislative development, considering general clauses and specific manifestations of equality, particularities, and reflections added in the Bolivian legal construction.
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Official Gazette of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Political constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Promulgated on February 7, 2009.
———. Law No. 045 against racism and all forms of discrimination of October 8, 2010.
———. Law No. 70 Education Law “Avelino Siñani – Elizardo Pérez” of December 20, 2010.
———. Law No. 026 Electoral Regime Law, of June 30, 2010.
———. Law No. 348 comprehensive Law to guarantee women a life free of violence, of March 9, 2013.
———. Law No. 263, comprehensive law against human trafficking and smuggling of July 31, 2012.
———. Law No. 1173, law on “abbreviation of criminal procedure and strengthening of the comprehensive fight against violence against girls, boys, adolescents and women” of May 3, 2019.
———. Law No. 243 Law against harassment and political violence against women of May 28, 2012.
———. Law No. 031 autonomies and decentralization framework “Andrés Ibáñez” of July 19, 2010.
———. Law 18 of the Plurinational Electoral Body of June 17, 2010.
———. Law No. 4021 Transitory Electoral Regime of April 14, 2009.
———. Law 2,771 of citizen groups and indigenous peoples of July 6, 2004.
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———. Supreme Decree No. 29850 December 22, 2008.
———. Supreme Decree No. 3106 of March 8, 2017.
———. Supreme Decree No. 3774, January 16, 2019.
———. Supreme Decree No. 4401, November 26, 2020.
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CEPAL Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Official data compiled by the gender equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OIG). https://oig.cepal.org/es. Accessed 1 Nov 2020.
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———. 2017. Protocol for judging with a gender perspective. Judicial Organ Gender Committee. http://www.stf.jus.br/repositorio/cms/portalStfInternacional/newsletterPortalInternacionalJurisprudencia/aíritu/ProtocoloGneroTSJBolivia.pdf. Accessed 28 Nov 2020.
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———. SC 1846/2004-R. Sucre, of November 30, 2004.
———. SC 0074/2006. Sucre, of September 5, 2006.
———. SC 0739/2010-R. Sucre, July 26, 2010.
———. SC 0993/2010-R. Sucre, of August 23, 2010.
———. SCP 0033/2013 Sucre, of June 22, 2013.
———. SCP 1961/2103 Sucre, of November 4, 2013.
———. SCP 0206/2014 Sucre, February 5, 2014.
———. SCP 0323/2014 Sucre, February 19, 2014.
———. SCP 0173/2014 Sucre, May 14, 2014.
———. SCP 260/2014 Sucre, August 2, 2014.
———. SCP 0394/2018-S2 Sucre, August 3, 2018.
———. SCP 0017/2019-S2 Sucre, March 13, 2019.
Essential Reading
Official Gazette of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. 2009. Political constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Posted in edition. NCPE.
Quintanilla, Juan Carlos Pinto. 2009. Documentary historical encyclopedia of the Bolivian constituent process. Bolivia: Plurinational State of Bolivia.
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Fernández Martinet, I.P. (2022). Gender Equality in Bolivia. In: Cremades, J., Hermida, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31739-7_100-1
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