A Breeze of Hope

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A Breeze of Hope (Spanish: Una Brisa de Esperanza) is a Bolivian nonprofit charitable organization that provides free legal, social, and psychological support to victims of sexual violence.^[1] The charitable organization is globally partnered with Equality Now. Over the course of 14 years, the organization's legal team has prosecuted 500 abuse cases.^[2]

Brisa de Ángulo, an advocate and survivor of sexual abuse, founded A Breeze of Hope in 2004 to address the urgent need for support and justice for sexually abused children in Bolivia.^[3] She experienced repeated rape by a family member at 16, and her decision to report the abuse was met with intimidation and blame from her community, extended family, and the authorities.^[4]

In 2013, A Breeze of Hope's advocacy before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights successfully pressured the Bolivian government to repeal the Rape-Marriage law, a law that pardoned sexual aggressors of their crimes if they married their victims.^[5] The first school-based study on the scope of sexual violence against children and adolescents in Bolivia was undertaken in 2009 by the A Breeze of Hope Foundation in collaboration with the Bolivian Ministry of Education and Towson University.^[6] They discovered that 1 in 3 girls said they had experienced sexual assault before turning 18.^{[citation needed]}