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January 22, 2025 Dispatches

UN Committee Said Ecuador, Nicaragua Violated Girls’ Rights

Girls Were Denied Abortion, Forced into Motherhood

Niñas no Madres movement performance, Quito, Ecuador, May 2019.
January 17, 2025 Dispatches

Ecuador High Court Upholds Rights of Trans Student

School Found to Violate Rights to Equality, Education, Best Interests of the Child

The Constitutional Court building, in Quito, Ecuador, February 7, 2024.
January 17, 2025 Commentary

Ecuador Needs a Different Approach to Fighting Organized Crime

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December 16, 2024 Statement

Ecuador: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

98th Session

September 11, 2024 News Release

Ecuador: Government Should End Criminalization of Abortion

Amicus Brief Stresses International Obligations to Ensure Access

Women from different organizations that are part of the Justa Libertad movement raise green scarves outside the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in Quito, March 19, 2024.
September 11, 2024 News Release

Americas: Limited Protection for People Fleeing Venezuela, Haiti

Limited Access to Asylum, Integration Pushes People to the Darién Gap

SENAFRONT officers coordinate the departure of “piraguas,” wooden canoes made from hollowed-out tree trunks
August 30, 2024 Amicus Briefing

Amicus Curiae in Action of Unconstitutionality 22-24-IN Against Article 149 of the Criminal Code of Ecuador

August 29, 2024 Amicus Briefing

Amicus Curiae in the Monitoring of the State of Ecuador’s Compliance in Paola Guzmán Albarracín y otras vs. Ecuador

August 29, 2024 News Release

Ecuador Sets Plan to End Sexual Violence in Schools

Implementation Requires Adequate Resources, Meaningful Civil Society Involvement

Students return to school after the government of Ecuador temporarily suspended in-person lessons in response to a series of violent events at the beginning of the year in Quito, Ecuador, January 24, 2024.
August 23, 2024 Statement

Children's Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

July 24, 2024 News Release

Ecuador: Slow Progress to End Sexual Violence in Schools

Accelerate Measures to Prevent Abuses, End Impunity

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May 22, 2024 Letter

Letter to President Noboa on “internal armed conflict” and human rights violations in Ecuador

May 22, 2024 News Release

Ecuador: Unchecked Abuses Since ‘Armed Conflict’ Announcement

Baseless Policy Endangers Rights, Fails to Address Criminal Violence

Soldiers briefly detain a youth to walk him to an area to check if he has gang-related tattoos as they patrol the south side of Quito, Ecuador, Friday January 12, 2024..
April 15, 2024 Dispatches

Justa Libertad: A Movement to Decriminalize Abortion in Ecuador

The Green Wave Continues to Make Strides in Latin America

Women from different organizations that are part of the Justa Libertad movement raise green scarves outside the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in Quito, March 19, 2024.
April 4, 2024 Dispatches

Child Rights Abuses Go Unchallenged due to UN Funding Crisis

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Cancels Upcoming Session

Children look at books in an elementary school in the village of Bisober, Tigray on December 9, 2020. The school was occupied by Tigray Special Forces and also damaged after fighting broke out between Ethiopian and Tigray forces in November 2020.

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