Useful Information

OHCHR in Ecuador
2013-2014
2006-2007

Publications

	OHCHR Report 2015
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Ecuador

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Ecuador and UN Charter-based Bodies

Ecuador and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education - Mission to Ecuador (A/HRC/23/35/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to Ecuador (A/HRC/17/28/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences - Mission to Ecuador (A/HRC/15/20/Add.3)

Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights - Mission to Norway and Ecuador (A/HRC/14/21/Add.1)

Report of the Working Group of experts on people of African descent - Visit to Ecuador (A/HRC/13/59)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2016) CAT/C/ECU/CO/7

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2016) CCPR/C/ECU/CO/6

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2015) CEDAW/C/ECU/CO/8-9

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2014) CRPD/C/ECU/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2012) E/C.12/ECU/CO/3

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2012) CERD/C/ECU/CO/20-22

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding observations (2010) CMW/C/ECU/CO/2

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/OPAC/ECU/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/OPSC/ECU/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/ECU/CO/4

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Human Rights Adviser in Ecuador

OHCHR deployed a Human Rights Adviser (HRA) to the UN Resident Coordinator and UN Country Team (UNCT) in Ecuador in May 2007, with the aim of assisting the UNCT in implementing capacity-building projects on human rights in the judiciary and supporting the UNCT on human rights-based programming. Although the initial mandate focused on supporting the judiciary and later the constitutional reform process, since 2010, the HRA has also prioritized working on mainstreaming human rights in the Government-led national planning development process.
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