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.

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)