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29 October 2025
Ecuador: escalation of violence in Nueva Prosperina, Guayaquil
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In 2025, armed violence in the Nueva Prosperina district of Guayaquil escalated to critical levels, with the highest increase seen in the number of homicides. Between January–August 2025, 474 homicides were recorded, representing a 112% increase.
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11 August 2025
Ecuador: the impact of violence on livelihoods in El Oro
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This report aims to analyse the humanitarian effects triggered by violence-induced livelihood deterioration in El Oro, Ecuador, from May 2024 to May 2025.
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14 April 2025
Ecuador: Flooding
DOCUMENT / PDF / 301 KB
Since January 2025, all 24 provinces of Ecuador have been experiencing heavy rainfall, landslides, floods, mudslides, and thunderstorms. By 6 April, the impact had affected 136,573 people.
11 December 2024
Ecuador: The escalation and impact of violence on children
DOCUMENT / PDF / 741 KB
This report examines the distinct impacts of escalating violence on children across Ecuador, with a particular focus on protection, education, and health in the provinces of Esmeraldas and Guayas.
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21 March 2024
Ecuador: increased violence amid internal armed conflict leads to protection concerns
DOCUMENT / PDF / 1 MB
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.
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22 December 2023
Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border
DOCUMENT / PDF / 2 MB
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.
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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.