{"id":3342,"date":"2019-07-25T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/bienvenido-a\/violencia-de-genero-explotacion-y-abuso-sexual\/denuncia-apoyo-legal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:09:06","slug":"denuncia-apoyo-legal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/bienvenido-a\/violencia-de-genero-explotacion-y-abuso-sexual\/denuncia-apoyo-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal claims and access to justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All survivors of gender-based violence in Ecuador regardless of their migration status have the right to file a report with the competent authorities, as well as to receive free legal support.<\/p>\n<p>To file a report, consider the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you were a victim of any type of gender-based violence and less than 24 hours have passed since the incident: you must report at the nearest Flagrancy Prosecutor\u2019s Office (Fiscal\u00eda de Flagrancias) to your place of residence. Check this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gob.ec\/directorio-fiscalias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fiscal\u00eda General del Estado | Directorio de fiscal\u00edas provinciales<\/a>.\u202f\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In general, if you want to report any type of violence you experienced, we recommend reviewing the official protection pathways available at this link \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gob.ec\/mmdh\">https:\/\/www.gob.ec\/mmdh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are no specific requirements to file a report. If possible, bring your identity document. To file a report, you do not need a lawyer, and the process is completely FREE.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Defender\u2019s Office also provides free legal assistance for survivors of violence. See this link to review the service points: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensoria.gob.ec\/?page_id=22777\">SERVICE POINTS | Public Defender&#8217;s Office of Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All survivors of gender-based violence in Ecuador regardless of their migration status have the right to file a report with the competent authorities, as well as to receive free legal support. To file a report, consider the following: If you were a victim of any type of gender-based violence and less than 24 hours have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":3323,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3342\/revisions\/5928"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}