The gap, of the non-attendance of Afro-Ecuadorians is 61%. From here we request that the
policy of equal access to higher education should be more aggressive. Affirmative action
stated at the Constitution in Article 11, could be a solution.
A second serious problem affecting the Human Rights of Afro-Ecuadorian People is the
unemployment.The gap is 149%, that is to say that Afro-Ecuadorian unemployment is 49
times larger than the mestizo unemployment.
Much of the Ecuadorian Afro population (women) work in domestic service, while men work
as day laborers. These are jobs that are characterized by taking longer statutory working
hours, with low-wage income (USD $ 80-150 per month) although the national government,
its statistics on the national average income reflect women receiving $ 273 in general, which
our entire population has not yet received ..
The Afro-Ecuadorians are mostly involved in the subsistence economy. Given the
PERSISTENT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
In formal employment, most of the Afro Ecuadorian EAP (economically active population)
belongs to the peasant and worker sector that take their cheap labor and low-skilled. The
Afro-Ecuadorian women and young people are the sector that require more attention in the
field of education.
The precarious social indicators presented among we the Afro Ecuadorians demonstrate a
critical factor in the issue of unemployment and subemployment broken down by, sex, the
Afro-Ecuadorian women take the worst part, this unemployment rate reaches the insolit
figure of 16.53%, we find ourselves against a severe panorama of unemployment and the
worst conditions. While the National Government implements Public Policy, to attack
employment discrimination to the Afro Ecuadorians with the issue of PLAN AGAINST RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION and the Process of Decree 60, we have noted with great concern that
racism does not yield back, but continues mutating and continues to exclude
Afro-Ecuadorian women and men from a decent employment.
We know that this is a country that is recognized by 68% as racist.
And that this Racism is structural and that discrimination persists as an obstacle to equal
opportunities.
Although labor market conditions, the racial discrimination persist and shows different
realities: we the organized Black Afro Ecuadorian Women, with ingenuity, work for
CONAMUNE and CONAMUNECE, that are mobilizing and organizing poor black women in
Esmeraldas and the country, in the scope of market productivity, promoting their social and
economic independence through the creation of small micro enterprises. Through leadership
development between the bases, collective action and improving their situation at all levels,
the organization has been working for each worker women without resources would have the
right to intervene in public policies that creates our country. To that end, the CONAMUNECE
in Esmeraldas creates the BANQUITO PROGRESIVO (daily savings), which has provided