Ecuador
A combined view of Ecuador's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Ecuador's General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from early multilateralist emphasis on global development inequities toward a more assertively nationalist posture centered on domestic achievement and grievance narratives. The period 2007–2016 saw particularly pointed ideological critiques—of US surveillance, neoliberalism, corporate power, and international structural injustice—paired with concrete statistics on Ecuador's own policies and landmark cases like Chevron-Texaco and Julian Assange. Since 2018, speeches have balanced self-directed policy accomplishments (especially on security, migration, and climate) with calls for renewed multilateral cooperation, though with declining emotional intensity and fluctuating multilateralism scores, suggesting a pragmatic recalibration rather than ideological consistency.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2007 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2008 | Very High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2012 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2013 | High | High | High | Low |
| 2014 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2015 | Medium | High | High | Low |
| 2016 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2018 | High | Very High | Low | Medium |
| 2020 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Very High | Medium | High |
| 2023 | High | High | Very High | High |
| 2024 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Ecuador maintains comprehensive commitments across all tracked treaty domains, having ratified all 24 instruments surveyed, demonstrating particular robustness in environmental governance (15 ratifications spanning climate, biodiversity, hazardous waste, and ozone protection) and human rights law (5 core conventions). This near-universal treaty embrace, coupled with ratification of the Rome Statute and anti-corruption instruments, reflects Ecuador's stated multilateralist identity, though the absence of notable withdrawals or selective non-ratification suggests alignment with mainstream international legal frameworks rather than independent or contrarian positions.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Ecuador's voting pattern is overwhelmingly consensual, with 5,108 affirmative votes out of 5,694 recorded (89.7%) and only 37 dissenting votes (0.6%), indicating strong alignment with General Assembly majorities. Its rare dissents cluster on geopolitical issues—notably Libya's Human Rights Council reinstatement (2011), Syria's human rights situation (2011), and Palestine-related matters—suggesting Ecuador occasionally breaks consensus on questions involving US ally positions or regional powers, though even these instances remain statistically marginal relative to its broader voting compliance.
Notable dissents from consensus
Question relating to information : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1983-12-15 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Restoration of the rights of membership of Libya in the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2011-11-18 · voted N · 97% voted yes
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1971-12-06 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2011-12-19 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1976-12-10 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.777 (High), ranked #88 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023