This is Moi. This is in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

However, he said nothing about having been persecuted by Ecuadorian authorities but, on the contrary, he clearly stated that he had never had any problems with the Ecuadorian police or other authorities.

And this area of the Ecuadorian Amazon oil was discovered in 1972.

The complainant is Mr. L.J.R.C., an Ecuadorian citizen, born in 1977, currently facing deportation from Sweden to Ecuador.

It adds that it is clear that the Ecuadorian authorities do not tolerate the activities of FARE DP, which they regard as criminal and have linked to a series of kidnapping and murder cases, and that there is nothing to show that the Ecuadorian authorities could not afford the complainant adequate protection from FARE DP.

As a consequence of the serious economic crisis of 1999, the after effects of which were still visible, many Ecuadorian men and women had been forced to leave their country.

In line with its international commitments, Ecuador had made important progress on the rights of Ecuadorian women and the institutionalization of policies that benefited women and sought to achieve gender equality.

(f) To report to the United Nations on the conduct of each stage of the process, so that the Organization may communicate the findings to the Committee and to the Ecuadorian authorities.

The State party adds that the fact that the complainant was given permission to leave Ecuador by both the military and the police strongly suggests that he is not wanted by the Ecuadorian authorities.

Ecuador declared, with regard to article 10, that the concept of criminal liability of legal persons was not at the moment embodied in Ecuadorian legislation and this reservation would be withdrawn when legislation progressed in this area.

The New York Times recently published an exceptional description of Ecuadorian polleros transporting their human cargo to the coasts of Guatemala and then onward through Mexico to the US. Colombian displaced persons and Venezuela's middle class are fleeing to Miami.

And we never hear about that. And the latest infraction against these people is, as part of Plan Colombia, we're spraying Paraquat or Round Up, whatever it is we're defoliating thousands of acres of the Ecuadorian Amazon in our war on drugs.

The Committee notes that the complainant has not disputed the State party's allegation that the Ecuadorian authorities do not tolerate FARE DP activities carried out in border areas of the country, which they regard as criminal and link to a series of kidnapping and murder cases.

On 13 May 2000, while he was at the military base of Cononaco, he allegedly witnessed the torture and summary execution of two members of the guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Ecuador Defensores del Pueblo (FARE DP) by members of the intelligence service of the Ecuadorian Army.

In that regard, the national plan for human rights, which had been adopted in 1998 by civil society and the State, was perhaps the country's most innovative and far reaching instrument and would help to promote a genuine culture of tolerance and respect among all ethnic, social and cultural groups in Ecuadorian society.

For example, the US is far and away Ecuador s largest trading partner, accounting for more than a third of its foreign trade. Yet, facing the possibility that Ecuador might grant Snowden asylum, the US felt the need to scramble, with Vice President Joe Biden personally pleading America s case to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, even after Obama announced that he would not engage in wheeling and dealing over the extradition.

In response to the representative of the United Kingdom, he said that he had followed up directly with the Ecuadorian authorities twice during his first visit in April 2005, he had spoken in person with various authorities, including the then President, Lucio Gutiérrez and a month before submitting his report to the Commission on Human Rights, he had spoken to President Gutiérrez by telephone, to express his concern that the situation was worsening rather than improving.