Coverage tagged: Ecuador (ECU)
Every story tagged to Ecuador in the reporting behind our ratings, newest first. State-self-reported sources are excluded from scoring; non-anglophone coverage is surfaced in translation. Every card links to its source.
4 stories, newest first - 2 on this page in translation
Human Rights Watch reported that Ecuador's new adoption law contains discriminatory provisions against lesbian, gay and bisexual prospective parents. An independent NGO primary report on a discrete statutory provision supports the standing civil-liberties level without by itself justifying a step at this score.
HRW documented proliferating abuses under prolonged states of emergency and a justice system used against opponents, as the main opposition movement sits court-suspended through the registration window for the Nov 29 local elections. The HRW finding drove civil liberties -3 to -4; the election-mechanics claims are tilt-sourced and flagged.
Protest vigils were held July 8/11 and called for July 15 outside CNE delegations ahead of the July 17 and July 28 recall-petition deadlines; the government asked the CNE to declare the petitions inadmissible. TeleSUR's repression claim is state-media-sourced and excluded. Ecuador political_stability held at -5 pending the CNE rulings.
Ecuador's CNE set July 17/28 deadlines to rule on two presidential-recall petitions (July 9) as Noboa's approval fell 41% to 27%, with protests called for July 8/11/15. Ecuador political_stability -4 to -5.