Peer-reviewed article
Public policies in Ecuador to mitigate violence against children and adolescents
Alexandra Marisol Barcia Maridueña, Iván Andrés Muñoz Mata, Marcia Lisbeth Verdugo Arcos, Thalía Lilibeth Figueroa Suárez ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This article examines Ecuador's public policies and legal instruments designed to reduce violence against children and adolescents. The authors review national regulations and assess their effectiveness against international standards. Despite having diverse legal frameworks in place, the article finds that children's rights continue to be violated in Ecuador, suggesting that existing policies are not adequately protecting children from violence occurring in families, schools, and other settings.
Key points
- Rates of violence against children and adolescents in Ecuador have increased over time
- Violence against children occurs in multiple settings: family environments, schools, and other areas where children participate
- The country has multiple legal instruments in place to address child protection
- Despite regulatory diversity, children's rights continue to be violated in practice
- Stronger enforcement and guarantees are needed to ensure compliance with existing protections
Limitations
The document is a regulatory review and does not provide specific data on violence prevalence, details of which policies work or fail, or evidence from evaluations of policy implementation. The article does not describe quantitative outcomes or compare policy effectiveness across different interventions.
Abstract
The article focuses on examining public policies in Ecuador to mitigate violence against children and adolescents, this in the context that the rates of violence in the country have increased over the years and the ways in which they are produces are diverse, as well as the aggressors are no longer only found in the family environment but also in the school environment and in other areas where the minor has participation. In this sense, a review of the regulations in force in the country is carried out to assess their coverage and effectiveness based on international instruments on which they are based. The result of this review has made it possible to identify that despite the diversity of legal instruments, children's rights continue to be violated, which infers the need for actions to reinforce the guarantees of their compliance