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Ecuador: increased violence amid internal armed conflict leads to protection concerns

21 March 2024

Ecuador: increased violence amid internal armed conflict leads to protection concerns

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This is an anticipatory analysis of the potential humanitarian consequences of recent escalations in criminal gang-related violence in Ecuador following the state of exception and internal armed conflict decreed and declared by President Daniel Noboa in early 2024.
 

Conflict and violence
Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border

22 December 2023

Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border

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This report provides an overview of two key humanitarian crises in the Colombia-Ecuador border area that are expected to persist in the next 6–12 months. Specifically, the report presents an overview and an outlook of the humanitarian impact of armed violence and migration flows on the civilian population in the region.

Ecuador: migration of Venezuelan refugees and migrants

19 September 2023

Ecuador: migration of Venezuelan refugees and migrants

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Since 2015, Ecuador has been serving as a transit and destination country for Venezuelan refugees and migrants. As at July 2023, there were at least 502,200 Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Ecuador. Around 70% of this population is concentrated in the western provinces of Guayas, Manabí, and Pichincha. Children and adolescents comprise an estimated 43% of the refugee and migrant communities in the country.

Mixed migration