Ecuador: With no independent and impartial justice there can be no rule of law

Ecuador: With no independent and impartial justice there can be no rule of law

Index Number: AMR 28/010/2003
Date Published: 30 October 2003
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

This report focuses on human rights violations committed by members of Ecuador's National Police Force (Policía Nacional). It also examines two broad types of impunity - one that takes place through action and one that is present in the law (regulatory impunity) - in relation to the inherent impunity within Ecuador's judicial system.