Line Bareiro
Olinda María Selva Bareiro Bobadilla,[a] (30 August 1950 – 1 August 2026), known as Line Bareiro, was a Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist.[1][2]
Life
[edit]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 (BPD) 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 (CMP), founded in 1987. After Stroessner's overthrow in 1989, she was a founder member of Decidamos, a citizen advocacy group of NGOs.[1]
In 2010 Bareiro was elected to the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), to serve on the committee from 2011 until 2014.[1]
Bareiro died on 1 August 2026, aged 75.[3]
Works
[edit]- (ed. with Clyde Soto & Mary Monte) Alquimistas: documentos para otra historia de las mujeres, 1993
- (ed. with Ticio Escobar & Saúl Sosnowski) Hacia una cultura para la democracia en el Paraguay, 1994
- (ed. with Celsa Vega) Campesinas frente a la pobreza : condiciones de vida de las familias organizadas de la Cordillera, 1994
- (ed. with Clyde Soto) Ciudadanas: una memoria inconstante, 1997
- (ed.) El costo de la libertad : asesinato y heridas en el marzo paraguayo, 1999
- (with Clyde Soto) Women. In Peter Lambert & Andrew Nickson, The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay, Springer, pp. 87–.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ In this Hispanic American name, the first or paternal surname is Bareiro and the second or maternal family name is Bobadilla.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Nickson, R. Andrew (2015). "Bareiro, Line (1950–)". Historical Dictionary of Paraguay. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8108-7964-5.
- ↑ "Line Bareiro". Portal Guaraní (in Spanish). 1 August 2026.
- ↑ Falleció Line Bareiro, referente histórica del feminismo en Paraguay (in Spanish)
- 1950 births
- 2026 deaths
- Paraguayan women's rights activists
- Paraguayan human rights activists
- Women human rights activists
- Paraguayan feminists
- Paraguayan political scientists
- Women political scientists
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Organization founders
- Paraguayan officials of the United Nations
- Paraguayan expatriates in Germany
- 20th-century political scientists
- 21st-century political scientists