Line Bareiro

Line Bareiro (born 1950) is a Paraguayan political scientist, civil rights activist and feminist.

[1] 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.