ODHA-Ecuador

Welcome to the Afro-Ecuadorian Human Rights Observatory (ODHA), a platform committed to the promotion and protection of the human rights of the Afro-Ecuadorian community. Our work is situated in the context of a reality where significant challenges persist in terms of discrimination, access to justice, recognition of fundamental rights, invisibility, stigmatization, criminalization, poverty; lack of access to education, health, work; political participation and social protection.
Therefore, it is necessary to promote and defend the human rights of people of African descent, and demand that States and the international community comply with their obligations and commitments to guarantee respect, protection and realization of these rights. Likewise, it is essential to make visible and value the diversity, wealth and potential of people of African descent, and recognize their role as subjects of rights and agents of development.