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Education in Ecuador. The Ecuadorian Constitution requires that all children attend school until they achieve a “basic level of education,” which is estimated at nine school years. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [1] finds that Ecuador is fulfilling only 83.4% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based ...
Long was born in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, France, in 1977, to a French mother and a British father and grew up in the suburb of Sucy-en-Brie. [1] He completed his studies at the University of London, where he earned a PhD at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, a Masters in Political Science and a Bachelor in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. [2]
However, during the first years of the 2010s, there was a schooling deficit – understood as the gap observed between the theoretical and the actual school trajectory – corresponding to 2.5% among children aged 9 to 11 years; 21% among adolescents aged 15 to 17 years; 37% among youth aged 21 to 23 years; and around 46% among adults aged 31 ...
September 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills Tuesday ...
La Región Insular is the region comprising the Galápagos Islands, some 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) west of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean. Ecuador's capital and second largest city [contradictory] is Quito, [105] which is in the province of Pichincha in the Sierra region. It is the second-highest capital city with an elevation of 2,850 meters.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced / j uː ˈ n ɛ s k oʊ /) [1] [a] is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
On "November 28th, 2013, plain-clothes officers in Quito, Ecuador summarily closed the offices of Fundación Pachamama, a nonprofit that for 16 years has worked in defense of the rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples and the rights of nature. The dissolution, which the government blamed on their “interference in public policy,” was a ...
2024 Ecuadorian conflict. On 9 January 2024, an armed conflict broke out in Ecuador involving the country's government against several organized crime groups, most notably the Los Choneros cartel. Reports of armed attacks throughout Guayaquil and other parts of the country were widespread, occurring primarily in prisons, markets, roads, and ...