Line Bareiro
Line Bareiro is a Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist.Life
Line Bareiro studied at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, gaining a Masters in political science in 1979 and working as a research assistant to Dieter Nohlen. Returning to Paraguay she worked with the NGO Paraguayo de Datos until its suppression by Alfredo Stroessner in 1982. She was a founder member of the Centro de Documentación e Estudios in 1985, and active in the women's movement Coordinación de Mujeres del Paraguay, founded in 1987. After Stroessner's overthrow in 1989, she was a founder member of Decidamos, a citizen advocacy group of NGOs.
In 2010 Bareiro was elected to the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, to serve on the committee from 2011 until 2014.Works
- Alquimistas: documentos para otra historia de las mujeres, 1993
- Hacia una cultura para la democracia en el Paraguay, 1994
- Campesinas frente a la pobreza : condiciones de vida de las familias organizadas de la Cordillera, 1994
- Ciudadanas: una memoria inconstante, 1997
- El costo de la libertad : asesinato y heridas en el marzo paraguayo, 1999
- . In Peter Lambert & Andrew Nickson, The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay, Springer, pp. 87–.
