Terror in the illegal mines of Buenos Aires comes to light
PlanV reconstructed the crimes that took place in the illegal mines that afflicted this parish in the north of the country with documents and confidential sources. There were even military personnel involved in the illegal mining, who received minimal sentences. See the shocking images of the state of one of the mines almost two years after the State intervention.
Nearly 2,000 unaccompanied Ecuadorian minors reached the U.S. border in the last eight months
In recent months there has been an accelerated increase in the number of Ecuadorian minors traveling without their parents to the U.S.-Mexico border. On June 21, an Ecuadorian teenager died while trying to cross the border through the desert in the state of Texas.
In 2020 there were more than 200,000 alerts on child sexual exploitation from Ecuador
CyberTipline is a centralized North American system for reporting online child exploitation. Ecuador registered 242,631 incidents in the year of the pandemic, an increase of more than 100% compared to 2019.
Buenos Aires has not yet closed the mining wounds
An unprecedented event occurred in the parish of La Merced de Buenos Aires, in Imbabura. Hanrine company workers and the community of Buenos Aires remain day and night at this point. Miners and anti-miners do not give in. A chronicle.
Josefina Tunki and women human rights defenders attacked by mining companies and the Ecuadorian State
In recent years, thousands of tons of copper and gold have been extracted from the Cordillera del Cóndor. Indigenous leaders represent some of the 22 cases in the report published by organizations on the persecution and harassment of human rights defenders.
LGBTI: No diversity, no democracy
Access to justice and political participation is still an unfinished task, whose responsibility goes beyond the LGBTI population and involves the State and society.
Smuggling is part of the organized crime network
Organized crime is the network that is formed in the heat of illegality and informality, which begins with the indulgence and normalization of smuggling.