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Ecuador

Ecuador is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and unicameral legislature. In April 2021, a president from a center-right alliance of the Social Christian Party was elected. Observers deemed the elections to be free and fair. There were reports that members of the security forces committed some abuses. Members of criminal groups committed human rights abuses involving violence and killings. The government investigated and prosecuted such actions. The government took credible steps to identify and punish officials who may have committed human rights abuses.

The overall score indicates that there are substantial risks of potential human rights violations in this country. This may also include the tourism sector. Relevant risks for the tourism sector are, e.g.:
  • Government corruption
  • Restrictions of workers' freedom of association
  • Lack of investigation of and accountability for violence against women and children

For better comparability, we have converted the original scores of the indices to a uniform scale of 1-100 (1 most negative, 100 most positive).

In the following table you find these recalculated values and the original score in brackets behind them.

For information and a link to the original index click on "?" in the table.

The Overall Score is the geometric mean of all converted values for each country. It is subcategorized in five risk categories with colour gradations that can be seen in the map.

You can find more details on the methodology here.

44/100
10,0/100 (5)
76,5/100 (0,765)
73,6/100 (73,6)
65,0/100 (3,5)
52,0/100 (48)
62,5/100 (T2)
37,3/100 (0,373)
47,0/100 (47)
42,2/100 (69,4)
67,0/100 (67)
51,2/100 (51,2)
34,0/100 (34)
58,0/100 (58)