Ecuador: New Adoption Law Entrenches Bias

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Click to expand Image Ecuador's National Assembly in Quito on October 23, 2024.  © 2024 Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images A new adoption law in Ecuador contains discriminatory provisions targeting lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and threatens to strip many parents of transgender children of their parental rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption, which entered into force on August 14, 2026, purports to remove inefficiencies in adoption processes and reduce the…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · August 27, 2026

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