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Ecuador: Information on protection available to women victims of domestic and non-domestic abuse

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 November 1994
Citation / Document Symbol ECU18922.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ecuador: Information on protection available to women victims of domestic and non-domestic abuse, 1 November 1994, ECU18922.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac76a2.html [accessed 5 June 2023]
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Information on non-domestic violence against women is currently unavailable to the DIRB. For information on protection available to women victims of domestic violence, please consult the attached documents.

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachments

Inter Press Service. 6 November 1992. "Ecuador: Campaign to Combat Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse". (Nexis)

Latiamrecan Press. 28 January 1993. "Shelter for Battered Women in Ecuador". Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 6.

NOTISUR - South American and Caribean Political Affairs. 8 April 1992. "Ecuador: Domestic Violence". (Nexis)

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