Bolivia Education
Bolivia (06/05)
Education: Years compulsory--ages 7-14. Literacy--85.5%. Health (2000): Infant mortality rate--57.5. ... The Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR) emerged as a broadly based party. Denied its victory in the 1951 presidential elections, the MNR led the successful 1952 revolution. Under President Victor Paz Estenssoro, the MNR introduced universal adult suffrage, carried out a sweeping land reform, promoted rural education, and nationalized the country's largest tin mines. ... [Read More]
Civic Education Volume--Preface and Contents
The Civic Education volume is designed specifically for language teachers who are turning toward content-based instruction to promote content learning and language learning in their classes. Through the exploration of topics related to civic education, language teachers can help their students master English and simultaneously become more knowledgeable citizens of the world. The combination of improved language skills and increased knowledge can enhance students' studies, work, and ability to become more active and conscientious participants in their communities. [Read More]
Reports, International Education Week 2001
In honor of International Education Week, the U.S. Embassy La Paz put together a lithography exhibit from a 1999 course at the University of California at Long Beach that is touring Bolivia's major cities. International in nature and participation, the exhibit exemplifies the concepts of promoting tolerance and the reduction of conflict by example—the example of aspiring artists from different cultural backgrounds sharing ideas and gaining new perspectives that visually enrich their lives and work. The lithography exhibit is also a springboard to promote greater interest in study in the U.S. and to demonstrate the international nature of education in the U.S. ... [Read More]
U.S.-Bolivia 2001 Agreement, English
of Bolivia; Acting pursuant to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, to which both countries are States Party; and Desiring to reduce the incentive for pillage of certain categories of irreplaceable archaeological material representing the Precolumbian cultures of Bolivia and certain ethnological material from the Colonial and Republican periods of Bolivia; Have agreed as follows: ARTICLE I A. The Gov ... [Read More]
Bolivia Federal Register Notice, 2001
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The value of cultural property, whether archaeological or ethnological in nature, is immeasurable. Such items often constitute the very essence of a society and convey important information concerning a people's origin, history, and traditional setting. The importance and popularity of such items regrettably makes them targets of theft, encourages clandestine looting of archaeological sites, and results in their illegal export and import. The U.S. shares in the international concern for the need to protect endangered cultural property. The appearance in the U.S. of stolen or illegally exported artifacts ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Cameroon is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most trafficking is internal and children are at greatest risk. Traffickers use fraudulent marriage proposals to lure women to Europe, principally France and Switzerland, for exploitation in prostitution. Children are trafficked to the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation. Girls are trafficked internally from Anglophone areas to Francophone cities such as Douala and Yaounde to work in exploitative conditions as domestics, street vendors, or prostitutes. Children are also trafficked for forced labor on cocoa plantations. Children trafficked between Nigeria and Gabon transit Cameroon. Cameroon is a destination country for Nigerian children trafficked and exploited in commercial agriculture, prostitution, and street vending, or in small shops. ... [Read More]
Program Alumni – International Visitor Leadership Program
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Reports, International Education Week 2001
... U.S. Embassy Budapest, Hungarian–American Commission for Educational Exchange (Fulbright Commission) and the Fulbright Educational Advising Center ... International Education ... [Read More]
International Students – Educational Information and Resources
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