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Demonstrators shout slogans and march to protest against gender violence, particularly against women's disappearances and femicide in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, January 31, 2022
FEMICIDE has been declared a state issue in Bolivia where the government has established a commission formed by seven women to oversee cases in which criminals are released by the judicial system.
The response was prompted following the killing of women by Richard Choque, a convicted rapist and murderer who was freed in 2019 on health grounds just four years into his 30-year sentence.
He was held under house arrest but went on to commit further crimes, including the murder of a teenager, sparking outage and protests outside his home in El Alto.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
