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This Monday, the Committee established by the Executive to address the police uprising of September 30, 2010, will deliver the final report to the Attorney General, Galo Chiriboga, for its proper prosecution. According to Oscar Bonilla, member of the Commission, it is possible...

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said on Friday that his country has found no basis in the United States that allow filing a complaint to the court for the case of blood samples taken without consent from indigenous Amazonian. On the scene were involved the Maxus oil...

The legal coordination of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) has prepared a report on the challenge made by the environmental group YASunidos regarding the results obtained after the signature verification process carried out to call a referendum that...

The new Index of Violation of Rights in the Media (IVDM for its Spanish acronym), which will be used to analyze the content of all media through a numerical formula that measures the presence or absence of 154 indicators, was presented last Wednesday. These indicators were...

From next July the renovation process of the 21 judges of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym) will begin, while candidates to the legal offices are convened. The process will take approximately six months. This will be the first renewal of the Court since...

After the acquittal in favor of Professor Mery Zamora is notified, her legal defense will file a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian State before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the moral damage caused by the four years of the criminal process followed by...

Last Thursday, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced a donation of one million dollars for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the General Assembly of the OAS, and at the same time he criticized another organ of the body, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

Last Thursday the National Assembly of Environment met in the Prometeo Theatre at the Casa de la Cultura in Quito, where about 80 people heard testimony from leaders of 20 organizations in the country regarding mining and oil extraction. Everyone went to the table located in the...

Last Wednesday, a group of foreign researchers, geographers and ecologists reported that state company Petroamazonas, granted with an environmental license required to extract the oil from the ITT block of the Yasuni National Park, would have breached environmental rules issued...

After the Ecuadorian Government, through Decree 310 of April 17 , created two agencies that regulate water resources: the National Agency for Regulation and Control of Water ( ARCA ) and the Public Company for Water ( EPA) ; the Irrigation Advisory boards of Guayas fear...