Two children were murdered every day in 2023 in Ecuador, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The previous year closed with the shocking number of 770 homicides of children from birth to 19 years old.
The figure represents an increase of 640% compared to the 104 that were registered in 2019. “Ecuadorian society must stop normalizing violence against children and women, it is an outcry,” says Luz Ángela Melo, representative of the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef.