{"id":26597,"date":"2025-10-13T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/?p=26597"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:12:05","slug":"ecuador-legislative-forum-addresses-the-family-as-a-pillar-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/2025\/10\/ecuador-legislative-forum-addresses-the-family-as-a-pillar-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Legislative forum addresses the family as a pillar of development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly of Ecuador is hosting the <strong>Legislative Forum \u201cThe Family as a Pillar of National Development\u201d<\/strong> on Tuesday, October 14, a meeting that brings together legislators from different political parties and experts in family public policy.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held in Quito, is organized by the <strong>Ecuador office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation<\/strong> (KAS Ecuador), the law firm <strong>Dignity and Law<\/strong>, and <strong>Political Network for Values<\/strong> (PNfV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDialogue is an essential factor in building paths of collaboration so that the family can be recognized as a pillar of development,\u201d said <strong>Johannes H\u00fcgel<\/strong>, director of KAS Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lola Velarde<\/strong>, executive director of PNfV, recalled that \u201cthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms in Article 16 that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by the State; therefore, its strengthening must be a central issue on the legislative agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the invited experts were <strong>H\u00e9ctor Y\u00e9pez<\/strong>, director of the School of Government at Esp\u00edritu Santo University (UEES); <strong>Vajk Farkas<\/strong>, director of the Madrid office of the Center for Fundamental Rights in Hungary; <strong>Katherine Herrera<\/strong>, consultant for the Strategic Security and Defense Studies Network of KAS Ecuador; <strong>Isabel Mar\u00eda Salazar<\/strong>, expert in public policies on childhood and the family environment; and <strong>Tom\u00e1s Henr\u00edquez<\/strong>, director of political advocacy for Latin America and the Caribbean at ADF International.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\nDiego de Jes\u00fas Hern\u00e1ndez<br \/>\nDirector of Communications, PNfV<br \/>\ndiegohernandez@politicalnetworkforvalues.org<br \/>\nPhone and WhatsApp: +55 31 9 9456 1430<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly of Ecuador is hosting the Legislative Forum \u201cThe Family as a Pillar of National Development\u201d on Tuesday, October 14, a meeting that brings together legislators from different political parties and experts in family public policy. The event, held in Quito, is organized by the Ecuador office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26598,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26597\/revisions\/26598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}