E/CN.4/2002/94/Add.1 page 9 12. Between 10 and 12 November the Special Rapporteur visited the south of the country. In Cuenca, she held a meeting attended by: Monsignor Luis Alberto Luna Tovar, Chair of the Azuay Commission on Human Rights; Luis Urguiles, Ombudsman of Azuay; Milton Ordóñez, Ombudsman of El Cañar; Fernando Vega, curate of the Pastoral Social Office; and Franklin Ortiz of the Pastoral Office of Human Mobility. Many civil-society organizations participated, including the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Forum on Human Rights (FIDEH), the Azuay Movement for the Defence of Migrants, the World Association of Migrants and the Pajara Pinta Organization. The meeting was also attended by members of the families of migrants, especially migrants who had disappeared or had been detained in transit countries. In Azogues, the Special Rapporteur was received by Ruth Abad de Brito, the Governor of El Cañar, and other officials. She visited Paute and San Marcos, two communities which are the homes of Ecuadorian migrants abroad. In the same afternoon, in Cuenca, she received testimony from members of the families of migrants who had been detained in countries through which they were passing on their way to the United States of America. In Cuenca, on 12 November, she held a meeting in the Governor’s office with Ricardo Muñoz Chávez, the Governor of Azuay, and other officials. In the University of Cuenca, she was received by Dr. Jaime Astudillo Romero, the Rector, who gathered together members of various faculties in which research programmes of migration are pursued. 13. On 13 November the Special Rapporteur travelled to Guayaquil. She met Marcos Ruinruil, the political head of the canton of Guayas, representing the Governor, Dr. Eduardo Franco Lool, Under-Secretary for Social Welfare for the coastal region, Maj. Renato Noboa, Deputy Chief of Migration, and Francisca Arizaga Pareja, Deputy Regional Director of Social Communication in INFA, Guayaquil. She also held a meeting with representatives of civil-society organizations in the coastal region, including the office of the curate of the Guayaquil Pastoral Social Office, the board of the Department of Welfare of the University of Guayaquil, the Standing Committee on Human Rights of Guayaquil and the Committee of Foreign Students. 14. The Special Rapporteur spoke to migrants in the Coastal Prison Centre, the Pre-trial Detention Centre and the Women’s Centre for Social Rehabilitation. She later held a meeting with Franklin Noreno Quezada, the Ombudsman of Guayas. 15. In Nueva Loja (Lago Agrio), on 14 November, the Special Rapporteur met Maj. Espinoza, the Provincial Head of Migration for Sucumbíos, and Lt. Garces, Provincial Head of Migration for General Farfán. She spoke to a Colombian migrant who had been detained that morning because he had no papers; he had been living in Ecuador for two and a half years. She also had an opportunity to briefly meet Manuel Chávez, the Ombudsman of Sucumbíos, and held a lengthy meeting with representatives of civil-society organizations and individuals, represented in the Civil Society Assembly, and with the Human Rights Office of the Pastoral Office of Human Mobility. On 15 November she met officials of UNHCR, IOM, the Red Cross, Médicos sin Fronteras and Terre des Hommes in Sucumbíos. She also met the Bishop of the province, Monsignor Gonzalo Mareñón. 16. In the afternoon of 15 November the Special Rapporteur attended a meeting to mark the end of her visit with officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Police, Social Welfare, and Labour and Human Resources, as well as INFA and CONAMU.