People stand apart, socially distanced, in front of a private clinic on Plaza del Teatro in Quito.

Women and children share dinner in the canteen of the centre for female victims of gender based violence. This year the shelter received more than one hundred new referals and provided them and their...

Women and girls living at a shelter for women who have suffered domestic abuse gather to watch television.

Tourists walk around the central park of Lago Agrio. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia which has one of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence according to the latest...

An electronic sign which reads 'Quedate En Casa' (stay at home) is seen along one of the main roads in Quito. People have been advised to stay at home in order to prevent the spread of Covid.

A Franciscan priest poses for a portrait while waiting to be served at a bank in Quito. He's wearing a protective face covering.

A woman sits on a bench in a park before the beginning of the nightly curfew.

A man waits in line to enter a bank branch in Quito.

Psychologists, educators and teenagers from the community paint a mural about gender violence on a wall in Lago Agrio. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia and has one of the hig...

Maria (not her real name) cleans her room while her children embroider necklaces. She is a Quichua woman with four children, two of whom are hearing impaired. They are living in a shelter for women wh...

Women sit on their beds in a dorm room at a shelter for women who have been victims of domestic violence. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia and has one of the highest rates of d...

People wait, socially distanced, in front of a pharmacy in Quito.

Cecilia and Silvana, not their real names, spend time together in their room at the shelter for women who have been victims of gender based violence in Lago Agrio. Lago Agrio is a border city between...

Cecilia and Silvana, not their real names, paint their nails in their room at the shelter for women who have been victims of gender based violence in Lago Agrio. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ec...

A sign on the door of a funeral home informs people that it is operating 24 hours a day. Since the beginning of the pandemic, funeral homes have been particularly busy.

A man sits in a car in front of a hospital, waiting for news about a family member during the covid pandemic.

Cecilia and Silvana, not their real names, spend time together in their room at the shelter for women who have been victims of gender based violence in Lago Agrio. Lago Agrio is a border city between...

Karla (not her real name), a 17 year old teenage mother, rest in her room at a shelter for women who have suffered domestic abuse where they are living. Ecuador has the second highest rate of teenage...

A worker disinfects the interior of a bus in preparation for medical personnal to board in Quito.

Karla (not her real name), a 17 year old mother, rests in her room at the Shelter Center for female victims of gender based violence. She came to the shelter when she was pregnant. Her daughter is now...

Karla (not her real name), a 17 year old teenage mother, looks out of the window at a shelter for women who have suffered domestic abuse where they are living. Ecuador has the second highest rate of t...

A bus driver in Quito is dressed in a white protective suit from head to toe while also wearing a face covering.

A worker walks through a temporary Covid Attention Centre, dressed in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Amparo Penaherrera, feminist administrator of Puerta Violeta, a shelter and center for female victims of gender based violence.

The social worker working at La Puerta Violeta, a centre caring for women who have suffered from domestic abuse, organises the next delivery of Health Kits to the women of the community.

A sewing teacher organises the work of the participants of a workshop in the facilities of La Puerta Violeta Centre, a shelter for women who have been victims of domestic abuse. More than 30 women par...

Women living in a shelter for victims of domestic abuse study in their virtual classes with the help of teachers. They have started a school for adult women and many have finished their school studies...

Maria Munoz, dressed in protective clothing and wearing a mask, prepares parcels for families in need who are struggling due to covid lockdowns.

Karla (not her real name), a 17 year old teenage mother, plays with her two year old daughter at the kindergarten facility of a shelter for women who have suffered domestic abuse where they are living...

A volunteer sits on steps in a warehouse where parcels for poor families struggling during the covid pandemic are stored.

Karla (not her real name), a 17 year old woman, walks her two year old daughter through the shelter for women who have been victims of domestic abuse where they are living. She has been at the shelter...

Ana (not her real name), a 26 year old Venezuelan migrant, puts her son to sleep in her room in the shelter for female victims of gender based violence. She arrived in Ecuador in 2018 and came to the...

Ana (not her real name), a 26 year old Venezuelan migrant, puts her son to sleep in her room in the shelter for female victims of gender based violence. She arrived in Ecuador in 2018 and came to the...

Women at a shelter for victims of domestic abuse do their school activities and share time together in the shelter facilities. They take part in beauty workshops, haircuts and nail painting.

Jhonny Espinoza, director of the Boy Work Center, is in charge of organising parcels for needy families struggling during a covid lockdown. The centre has delivered 2,500 parcels so far.

Children and mothers residing in a center for women who have been subjected to domestic vioelence sit on the floor while watching a Christmas film. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Co...

People wait in line to receive their 'solidarity kits', boxes with good for those struggling during the covid pandemic, on the outskirts of Quito.

Families receive 'solidarity kits', boxes with good for those struggling during the covid pandemic, on the outskirts of Quito.

People distribute parcels intended for poor families struggling during the covid pandmic in northern Quito.

Market traders wearing face masks offer bananas and other fresh produce in a market in Quito.

Anabel, 26, looks out the window of the kindergarten of the shelter for women who have been subjected to domestic violence. She is a Venezuelan migrant who has been living at the shelter for two month...

Women leave their children in the kindergarten of the centre for female victims of gender based violence.

A banana seller unloads his products from a truck in a market in Quito.

Tourists walk around the central park of Lago Agrio enjoying the Christmas activities on an evening before Christmas. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia and has one of the highe...

Women and their children living at the centre for women who have experienced domestic violence prepare to head up to their bedrooms for the night.

Karla (17, not her real name) holds her two year old daughter in a shelter for women who have been subjected to domestic violence where they live. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Col...

Market traders wearing protective clothing and face masks offer bananas and other fresh produce in a market in Quito.

Karla (17, not her real name) and her two year old daughter look over the wall of the shelter for women who have been subjected to domestic violence where they live. Lago Agrio is a border city betw...

An orange seller wearing protective clothing and a face mask sits on an oil tin.

Children and mothers residing in a center for women who have been subjected to domestic vioelence pray the novena and sing Christmas songs. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia a...

Children and mothers residing in a center for women who have been subjected to domestic vioelence decorate a Christmas tree. Lago Agrio is a border city between Ecuador and Colombia and has one of t...

People wait in line, wearing masks, to buy food from supermarkets in Quito during the covid pandemic.

Women and children living in a shelter for women who have been victims of domestic abuse wait in the common room to pray the novena, a ritual of prayers and songs that they perform every night leading...

Women and their children living at the centre for women who have experienced domestic violence head to the soup kitchen for dinner.

Anita (4, not her real name) plays in the courtyard of the shelter for women who have been subjected to domestic violence where she has been living with her mother and her siblings for the past two ye...

A photograph printed onto linen and embroidered by the photographer. The Sucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon, near Pucallpa.

Residents take part in a gymnastics class in the village of Atalia do Norte on the banks of the Javari River in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory. A wall painting depicts toucan birds and an ind...

The quilombola (settlement founded by escaped slaves) community of Pedras Negras on the Guapore River in Rondonia.

An aerial view of the Forte Principe de Rivera, on the banks of the Guapore River in Rondonia on the border between Bolivia and Brazil. Next to the fort is the quilombola (settlements founded by escap...

An aerial view of the Forte Principe de Beira, on the banks of the Guapore River in Rondonia on the border between Bolivia and Brazil. Next to the fort is the quilombola (settlements founded by escape...

The faithful leave the Fundamentalist Baptist Church in the village of Atalia do Norte in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

An aerial view of the Guapore River which forms the border between Brazil and Bolivia in the municipality of Costa Marques in Rondonia.

Plastic chairs, one with a bible resting on it, in the church hall run by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

A statue of St Sebastian, a third century Christian saint who was martyred by being shot with arrows and then beaten to death, in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

People take part in a service in a church that belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Indigenous people take part in a service in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Woman wash clothes while children swim in the Javari river in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Kanamari indigenous people participate in a religious service at the house of Riwu Jumi Kanamari, a religious leader.

Indigenous religious leader Riwu Jumi Kanamari attends a religious service in a hut in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

A woman, a member of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, a religious movement founded by Jose Francisco da Cruz in the 1970s, kneels in front of the church in a village in Vale do Javari indigenous ter...

Children play table tennis on a street in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Children play on a street that runs past wooden shacks in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Pastor Marcos Mayoruna poses for a photo near his home in Atalaia do Norte.

Pastor Marcos Mayoruna poses for a photo near his home in Atalaia do Norte.

Local residents ride bicycles and motorcycles past an outdoor kitchen in a square in the Atalaia do Norte settelement in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

Piranha heads in a bucket in the Sao Rafael community on the banks of the Itacoai River. This community was visited by American Christian Baptist evangelical missionary Andrew Tonkin.

Maria Pereira da Gama, a riverside dweller who lived with the American Christian Baptist evangelical missionary Andrew Tonkin in the Sao Rafael community, stands in front of a community hall on the ba...

A boy flies a kite in the yard in front of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross Church, a religious movement founded by Jose Francisco da Cruz in the 1970s, in the village of Sao Pedro do Norte on the ba...

Children play in front of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross Church, a religious movement founded by Jose Francisco da Cruz in the 1970s, in the village of Sao Pedro do Norte on the banks of the Javari...

A branch of the Pentecostal Church of God of Brazil in Benjamin Constant.

Two girls walk along a wooden plank to reach a hut built on the banks of the Javari river in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

The base of FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, Brazil's government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to indigenous peoples, at the confluence of the Itacoai and Javari Rivers...

An aerial view of the village of Atalia do Norte on the banks of the Javari River in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

An aerial view of the village of Atalia do Norte on the banks of the Javari River in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

A boat passes near the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) community of Pedras Negras in Rondonia.

A boat ambulance is moored at the jetty of the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) community of Pedras Negras in Rondonia.

Cicero Xavier da Paz, an employee of the National Health Foundation of Brazil (FUNASA) uses smoke against a type of mosquito that spreads malaria in the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) communit...

Cicero Xavier da Paz, an employee of the National Health Foundation of Brazil (FUNASA) uses smoke against a type of mosquito that spreads malaria in the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) communit...

Residents of the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) community of Pedras Negras in Rondonia fish in the Guapore river.

A cross in front of a Catholic church in the quilombola (founded by escaped slaves) community of Pedras Negras in Rondonia.