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, 1993Hacia una cultura para la democracia en el Paraguay, 1994Campesinas frente a la pobreza : condiciones de vida de las familias organizadas de la Cordillera, 1994Ciudadanas: una memoria inconstante, 1997El costo de la libertad : asesinato y heridas en el marzo paraguayo, 1999