United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition. Estimates 2021.
Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15 to 49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime.
Source: Bott S, Guedes A, Ruiz-Celis AP, Mendoza JA. Intimate partner violence in the Americas: A systematic review and reanalysis of national prevalence estimates. Based on data from: Consejo Nacional para la Igualdad de Genero. 2014. La Violencia de Género Contra las Mujeres en el Ecuador: Análisis de los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional sobre Relaciones Familiares y Violencia de Género contra las Mujeres.
Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15 to 49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months.
Source: Bott S, Guedes A, Ruiz-Celis AP, Mendoza JA. Intimate partner violence in the Americas: A systematic review and reanalysis of national prevalence estimates. Based on data from: Consejo Nacional para la Igualdad de Genero. 2014. La Violencia de Género Contra las Mujeres en el Ecuador: Análisis de los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional sobre Relaciones Familiares y Violencia de Género contra las Mujeres.
(1) Ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of the Comprehensive Organic Act to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women and articles 141 and 142 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code by allocating the resources necessary and providing systematic and recurrent training to judges, prosecutors, the police and other law enforcement officers on their strict enforcement and strengthen measures to prevent, combat and punish all forms of gender-based violence against women;
(2) Continue raising awareness among women and men, girls and boys, including through educational and media campaigns, on the criminal nature of gender-based violence against women and girls;
(3) Ensure the availability of shelters for women who are victims of gender-based violence, strengthen support services for victims, as well as counselling and rehabilitation services, and ensure that those services are properly funded and accessible throughout the State party, that staff are properly trained and that the quality of the services provided is regularly monitored;
(4) Strictly enforce the Labour Code to Prevent Workplace Harassment and other relevant legislation to ensure that victims of sexual harassment in the workplace and in educational settings have access to reparation, strengthen the accountability of employers and require them to regularly review their company culture, and ensure the establishment of a whistle-blower hotline for reporting sexual harassment;
(5) Ensure that all sexual violence cases are investigated and that the perpetrators are prosecuted and brought to justice, and provide systematic training for judges, prosecutors, the police and other law enforcement official on gender-based violence and gender-sensitive investigation and interrogation procedures;
(6) Ensure the systematic collection of data, disaggregated by age, nationality, disability and the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, on the extent of gender-based violence against women and girls in the State party.
Strictly enforce article 176 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code on discrimination based on gender identity and legislation that prohibits “sexual reorientation” or “de-homosexualization”, ensure that cases are investigated and that perpetrators are prosecuted and, if convicted, punished appropriately, and that women and girls who are victims of such harmful practices have access to protection, including shelters and support services, and reparation.
(1) Conduct research on the economic consequences of divorce for both spouses, taking into account the length of the marriage and the number of children, and adopt such legal measures as may be necessary to redress possible economic disparities between men and women upon the dissolution of marriage and family relations;
(2) Raise awareness among religious and community leaders, the media and the general public about the harmful effects of child and/or forced marriages on the health, education and life choices of girls, in collaboration with civil society and women's organizations;
(3) Expedite the amendment of the Civil Code with a view to repealing the provision under which the husband is designated as the administrator of marital property;
(4) Include intangible property (such as pension funds, severance payments and insurance benefits) accumulated during a marriage or union in the joint property to be equally divided upon dissolution of the relationship;
(5) Adopt measures to provide child support payments in cases in which the father fails to pay.
(1) Address the root causes of trafficking by enhancing educational and economic opportunities for women and girls and their families, thereby reducing their vulnerability to exploitation by traffickers;
(2) Strengthen its efforts to improve data collection on victims of trafficking, disaggregated by sex, age, country of origin, nationality and form of exploitation, and ensure adequate protection, support, rehabilitation and reintegration services for them;
(3) Increase the number and accessibility of State shelters, in both urban and rural areas, strengthen counselling and rehabilitation services across the State party, and provide sufficient funding to civil society organizations that provide shelters and victim support services.
<u><a target="_blank" href="https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2F…, CEDAW Committee, Concluding observations on the tenth periodic report of Ecuador, 9 November 2021, CEDAW/C/ECU/CO/10.</a></u>
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