Republic of Ecuador

• State Department - Country Documents
• Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (LLOC)
  • Family Reunification Laws in Selected Jurisdictions - July 2014

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU104732.FE - Treatment of and state protection provided to asylum seekers, particularly Colombians; processing time for asylum applications; whether refugees are eligible for permanent residence or citizenship; whether a Colombian citizen may obtain Ecuadorian citizenship if they were born in Ecuador (2004-2013) - Jan. 2014
  • ECU43244.E - Whether a Colombian citizen who has an Ecuadorian spouse can be granted status in Ecuador by virtue of marriage; process required to acquire status - December 2004
  • ECU42858.E - Update to ECU26413.E of 24 February 1997 and ECU25202.E of 29 November 1996 on the recovery of Ecuadoran citizenship; whether there is a way to regain citizenship if an Ecuadorian renounced his/her citizenship before 1999 (July 2004) - July 2004

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• Department of Labor - Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

• Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
• Human Rights Watch Report
  • Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations - 2002

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• Election Guide - Recent elections

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• World Directory of Minorities - Overview

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• World Directory of Minorities -Afro-Ecuadorians

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• World Directory of Minorities - Huaorani

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• World Directory of Minorities - Shuar

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• World Directory of Minorities - Quichua

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU103278.FE - Domestic violence, legislation and protection available to victims - November 2009
  • ECU102423.E - Whether the Police Station for Women and Families (Comisaría de la Mujer y la Familia) investigates complaints against police or other state officials for domestic violence - March 2007
  • ECU102424.FE - Procedures for reporting domestic violence to the police stations for women and families; the "help certificate" (boleta de auxillo) - March 2007
  • ECU43446.E - State protection available to women victims of domestic violence (March 2000 - March 2005) - April 2005

• Amnesty International
  • Unprotected in Ecuador: Venezuelan refugee women survivors of gender-based violence - Nov. 2022
• Human Rights Watch
  • Rape Victims As Criminals - Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador - Aug. 2013

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) - Ecuador: An Overview - May 2019

• Amnesty International - 2020
  • Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human right - Mar. 2023
• Freedom House
  • Freedom In the World - 2023, 2022
• Human Rights Watch -  2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU102423.E - Whether the Police Station for Women and Families (Comisaría de la Mujer y la Familia) investigates complaints against police or other state officials for domestic violence - March 2007
  • ECU100775.E - Whether authorities provide effective law enforcement and prosecution of criminals, especially with respect to crimes committed against civilians by guerrillas and paramilitaries from Colombia (2003-2005) - December 2005 

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Foreign Government Reports

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU103278.FE - Domestic violence, legislation and protection available to victims - November 2009

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• University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection

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• Human Rights Watch
  • Rape Victims As Criminals - Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador - Aug. 2013
  • "Why do they want to make me suffer again?" - The Impact of Abortion Prosecutions in Ecuador - July 2021

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

• World Health Organization Page

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• CIA - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
• Congressional Research Service (CRS)

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU41958.E - Names of the mayor of Cañar in 1999 and at present; names of the presidents of the Comision del Castillo de Ingapirca in 1999 and at present - Sep. 2003

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• State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, July - Dec. 2010

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Amnesty International
  • Unprotected in Ecuador: Venezuelan refugee women survivors of gender-based violence - Nov. 2022 

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• State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, July - Dec. 2010

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU100774.E - Situation of homosexuals and availability of state protection (2003 -2005) - Jan. 2006

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ECU100830.FE - Activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) in Ecuador - November 2000

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• Freedom House
  • Freedom Of the Net - 2022, 2021

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• BBC Timeline

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Trafficking in Persons - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

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Terrorism

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Torture

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