A/HRC/14/7 54. The Ministry of Justice, together with the municipal legal services and women’s organizations, had harmonized, organized and standardized statistics on domestic violence. Bolivia intended to work with the judiciary to expand the coverage of State services providing attention and protection to crime victims. The Ministry of Justice had also developed a proposal to adapt and enrich norms, protocols and procedures concerning attention to victims of sexual violence, as well as a communication strategy for the prevention of gender violence, entitled “No to Violence against Women”. Bolivia planned to reach rural areas, in coordination with municipal governments. 55. Bolivia was working on drafts to modify the Law on Intra-Family Violence and the Law on the Protection of Victims of Crimes against Sexual Freedom, as well as on the revision of the Penal Code and the Family Code, following recommendations made by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Plan of Sexual and Reproductive Health for 2009-2015 is being implemented to respond to the needs of the population, especially women. Bolivia had strengthened its integral healthcare, including the provision of information and services related to contraception, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS. 56. Bolivia had four Government organs - executive, legislative, judiciary and electoral that carried out their work on the basis of independence, separation, coordination and cooperation. The new Constitution had incorporated new mechanisms for ensuring an independent judiciary, including the election of magistrates by direct vote. However, that had required transitional measures that would address the current institutional crisis of the judiciary, which had resulted from the previous, highly politicized system. Bolivia had draft laws for the judiciary, the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal, the Magistrate Council and the organic law of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (Ministerio Publico). Those institutions would carry out a new administration of justice. 57. Freedom of speech, opinion and information were fully recognized in the Constitution. The rights of rectification and reply were also recognized. All were guaranteed through any channel and without prior censorship. Bolivia had 9 television networks, 19 newspapers and hundreds of radio stations and Internet media, all privately owned. However, some private media had abused their role, transmitting content inciting violence, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of hate. In order to prevent excesses, which had been widely verified by national and international bodies, Bolivia had carried out an awareness-raising campaign with journalists. It had condemned all aggression against the press, independently of their affiliation, and had required the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the judiciary to investigate and prosecute such cases. Measures to be taken to prevent such abuses were being considered with all stakeholders and would be in keeping with international standards and the new Constitution regarding working conditions for the press, ethics and self-regulation. 58. Bolivia regretted the fact some human rights defenders had been the victims of attacks and aggression carried out by racist groups in opposition to the current Government, as national and international reports had observed. In compliance with preventive measures set out by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, meetings had been organized between the executive and the judiciary branches at which it had been requested that the investigation be carried out expeditiously. Unfortunately, those processes had been delayed, but the Ministry of the Interior had augmented police protection. 59. In a pluricultural and multilingual country such as Bolivia, action to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination was a necessity. Bolivia had actively participated in the Durban Review Conference. The Ministry of Justice had prepared the report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which had been widely circulated and had included input from civil society. The Constitution forbade all forms of discrimination, and, in that context, Bolivia had considered classifying that crime for 9