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Bolivia

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Country Overview

Targeted Groups
Perpetrators
Alert Status
Genocide Stage(s)
  • Indigenous Peoples

  • Women and Children

  • Human Rights and Land/Environmental Defenders

  • Journalists and Media Workers

  • The Bolivian State

  • Unregulated Mining Cooperatives

  • Organised Civilian Groups

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Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 6: Polarization

Details

Bolivia faces socio-political crises fueled by state impunity and judicial politicization following the 2019 Senkata and Sacaba massacres. In the Amazon, lowland Indigenous communities face severe threats from logging, agricultural expansion, and gold mining cooperatives using toxic mercury that bypass TIOC land guarantees and FPIC principles. Additionally, women and children suffer from rampant gender-based violence and femicide, while human rights defenders and journalists endure routine physical violence and criminalization from state security forces and organized civilian groups.

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Resources

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Studies warn of serious contamination in Bolivia's indigenous communities

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Lessons from Bolivia’s fight against mercury, gold mining, and water contamination

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Panorama de la Violencia Basada en Género en Bolivia: datos, tendencias y desafíos estructurales

Page last updated:
09/22/2026
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