Guest blog: Development and Human Rights in Bolivia: Advances, Contradictions, and Challenges
Guest blog by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky Former UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. From February 2011 to April 2014 he worked as a Sovereign Debt Expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) coordinating the Expert Group on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing. He has published books and articles on sovereign financing, foreign investment, transitional justice and human rights. In May 2019, when Evo Morales was still in power, I conducted a mission to Bolivia to report on the links between the economy and human rights in the country. In March this year the Bolivian government made it clear at the Human Rights Council that it didn’t like what the report said. I would like to share with you the article just published based on the findings of the report. The article goes attached. Many scholars and social activists consider the economic and social policies implemented during the Evo Morales governments in Bol...