120.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal Decree No. 1247 and establish clear procedures in secondary legislation in order to implement the right to free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples, regarding legislative or administrative measures affecting their territories and livelihood, as contained in the Constitution of Ecuador and in the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Right to land
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.18.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the legal provision that designates the husband as the administrator of marital property
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.18.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the provision of the Civil Code that designates the husband as the administrator of marital property
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.17.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal laws criminalizing abortion in cases of rape, incest and severe fetal impairment and eliminate all punitive measures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.17.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Advance in reforming the Criminal Code to decriminalize abortion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to ensure that all operations of intelligence agencies are monitored by an independent oversight mechanism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Privacy
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.15.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure civil society organizations are able to operate freely, including groups that may be critical of the Government, by amending or repealing Presidential Decrees Nos. 16 and 739
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.15.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform Presidential Decrees Nos. 16 and 739 and any draft law in this field to ensure the protection of human rights defenders and to ensure the independence and functioning of civil society organizations, notably by accepting the offer of technical assistance from the United Nations special rapporteurs to reform the current legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.15.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise Presidential Decrees Nos. 16 and 739, the Criminal Code, as well as the Organic Act on Communication to bring them into line with international human rights norms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.15.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate all forms of discrimination and criminalization of civil society organizations, human rights defenders and the media, inter alia by repealing Executive Decrees Nos. 16, 739 and 691 and the Organic Act on Communication and by ending criminal proceedings against persons participating in social protests based on broadly worded offences contained in the Criminal Code, such as sabotage and terrorism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.14.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the exercise of freedom of expression without undue restrictions, by amending or repealing the 2013 Organic Act on Communication
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.14.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address concerns arising under the Organic Act on Communication (2013) which impose an increased level of self-censorship on media outlets
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.13.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee freedom of expression and peaceful association and safeguard the activities of journalists and human rights defenders, also by amending relevant legislation in order to align it with best practices and international standards in the area of freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create and maintain in law and in practice a safe and enabling environment for civil society and human rights defenders, including by amending its laws to ensure compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and full independence of the judiciary in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- CP rights - general
- Human rights defenders
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully respect the right to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly by reviewing the laws, policies and programmes that regulate civil society and by amending or repealing any laws that allow the State to use force against peaceful demonstrators, arbitrarily detain protestors, restrict civil space and arbitrarily shut down the activities of civil society organizations. Such laws include articles 336, 339, 345, 346 of the Comprehensive Criminal Code as well as articles 22, 23, 24 of Presidential Decree No. 739
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review article 109.7 of the Organic Code of the Judiciary with a view towards guaranteeing judicial independence, including through the independent selection of judicial authorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate the catch-all clause “inexcusable error“ in article 109 of the Organic Code of the Judiciary and create a legal framework to ensure the full independence and impartiality of the judiciary in compliance with the Basic Principles on the Independence of Judiciary
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove or alter the broad definition and arbitrary application of “inexcusable error“ used by the Judicial Council to punish judges
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the independence of the judiciary by reforming article 109, number 7, of the Organic Code of the Judiciary in order to clearly delimit, in accordance with international law, the figure of “inexcusable error“, which is now insufficiently safeguarded against misuse for targeting judges
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and adopt a national action plan on business and human rights, including measures on access to remedy, paying special attention to the position of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
120.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the policy of providing two different types of identity documents for trans and cisgender people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
119.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national strategy to tackle modern slavery and contribute towards the realization of Sustainable Development Goal 8.7, and, as part of this, ratify the ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, and build law enforcement capability to further facilitate the investigation, prosecution and conviction of human traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
119.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court and fully align its national legislation with the obligations and definitions of crimes and principles contained in the Rome Statute and ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take adequate measures to guarantee the protection of isolated indigenous peoples, including the respect for intangible zones
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its human rights protection mechanisms for vulnerable groups and indigenous peoples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With the participation of indigenous persons, communities and their respective organizations, adopt a legal framework that ensures respect for the principles in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.151.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Institutionalize the right to consultation of indigenous peoples and involve civil society and indigenous groups in the elaboration of a functioning consultation mechanism according to the country’s commitments under the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Right to land
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all ill-treatment and sexual violence against children in educational settings is promptly, efficiently and impartially investigated, that perpetrators are brought to justice and that the victims receive reparation and are provided with the protection and support they require
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce and enforce legislation prohibiting corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in the family, schools and all places of deprivation of liberty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
118.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019