Safety on the job and at home, for Pakistani workers and Bolivian women
Women are teaching each other taekwondo to protect against gender-based violence
Government data says that 51,000 Bolivian women experienced domestic violence in 2022, and 8 out of 10 women face physical violence sometime in their lives. In the city of El Alto, the Warmi Power taekwondo studio (warmi means “woman” in the Quechua Indigenous language) trains women to defend themselves.
Black belts Laura Roca and Kimberly Nosa have trained 35,000 women around the country.
