Child and Adolescent Protection Systems in Ecuador

Verónica Jiménez Borja; Micaela Jiménez-Borja; Teresita Borja-Álvarez

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197503546.013.44

Child and Adolescent Protection Systems in Ecuador

Verónica Jiménez Borja
, Micaela Jiménez-Borja
, Teresita Borja-Álvarez

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

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Abstract

This chapter outlines Ecuador’s child protection systems. Ecuador’s signing of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in 1989 was the result of a long struggle to institutionalize and legislate children’s rights in the country. There have been important improvements in terms of the availability of a comprehensive public child protection system. However, ongoing political, economic, institutional, and legislative upheaval in the country poses difficulties to the implementation of the rights of children. As such, this chapter explores difficulties in the implementation of the National Decentralized Comprehensive Child Protection System. In particular, it highlights how Ecuador is suffering from deep structural socio-economic, regional, ethnic, and gender inequality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	666-682
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9780197503577
ISBN (Print)	9780197503546
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197503546.013.44
State	Published - 1 Jan 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

CRC
Ecuador
child protection
children’s rights
inequality
upheaval

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