Bolivia

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Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people  - Mission to Bolivia (A/HRC/11/11)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food - Preliminary note on the mission to Bolivia (A/HRC/4/30/Add.2)

Report of Independent Expert on structural adjustment policies and foreign debt (15-18/5/2001) (E/CN.4/2003/10)

Report of Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty (E/CN.4/2002/55)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report ot the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right on the activities of her office in Bolivia
(A/HCR/19/21/Add.2)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Bolivia (A/HRC/13/26/Add.2) (Advance Unedited Version)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Bolivia (A/HRC/10/31/Add.2) 

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Most recent concluding observations and reports

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding Observations (2013) 

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2011)

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Country visited in 2010. Report status: Confidential

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding Observations (2009)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding Observations (2008)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2008)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding Observations (2001)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (1997)

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Bolivia has experienced significant social and political unrest in recent years. While the landslide election of President Evo Morales in December 2005, a national referendum and the opening of a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the country’s Constitution have all led to a new political climate, the processes underway have revealed social and political fault lines between the resource-rich lowland departments and the largely poor highland regions of the country, as well as between the traditional political classes and parties and social movements. Those differences are threatening to undermine the Constituent Assembly process,making activities aimed at strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights in the country all the more urgent.
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