Ecuador: Urgent Call from the International Community
On October 16, 2025, concerned organizations expressed deep concern about the escalation of violence, repression, and militarization by the Ecuadorian State against social protests initiated on September 21, 2025, by the indigenous movement of Ecuador.
The persecution and criminalization of human rights defenders and social organizations have reached alarming levels of human rights violations, as they exercise their rights to mobilize, freedom of expression, and defend human rights and nature's rights.
Recent media and social networks have been flooded with photos and videos of military and police convoys controlling public order, using firearms and tear gas in inhabited areas.
Human rights violations have reached alarming levels.
Author's summary: Ecuador faces escalating violence and repression.