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Indigenous women are learning taekwondo moves to protect themselves against attacks by partners or family members LA PAZ, June 3 (Reuters) - Lucrecia Huayhua has survived domestic violence for most of her life. Now, with other indigenous Aymara women in Bolivia s highlands, she is taking things into her own hands with taekwondo classes to learn self-defense. In the high-altitude cities of La Paz and El Alto, indigenous cholita women, who have long faced discrimination, train wearing their distinctive billowing skirts and bowler hats as part of a female empowerment drive by the Warmi Power project. The women learn self-defense to protect themselves against domestic violence attacks, most often by partners or other family members. UN Women data shows eight out of ten Bolivian women suffer some type of violence during the lifetime.

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