The country has been rocked by the killing of lawyer María Belén Bernal, 34, last month, who disappeared after entering a police education center in the capital Quito where she had gone with her husband.
The incident sparked nationwide protests and police named her husband, who is at large, as the suspect.
On Saturday, protesters held signs reading “Look at me conscientiously because I may be the next victim” and chanted “We need to live. “
The protests took place in the streets of the capital Quito as in other parts of Ecuador following a call by social organizations to unite against the femicidal state.
The slogan was also sprayed outdoors from police headquarters in Quito, where protesters gathered to bombard the building with eggs and paint its façade with red and yellow paint.
Bernal’s frame was discovered 4 days after his disappearance on a hill about five kilometers (three miles) from Quito’s police education school.
A sign that read “Killer Police” placed at the feet of the officers in insurrection clothes and their shields covered in paint.
Since then, President Guillermo Lasso has ordered the death of two generals and Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo.
There have been 206 femicides in Ecuador since the beginning of the year, according to an NGO that monitors gender-based violence.
The Attorney General’s Office says that since 2014 573 femicides have been committed, a crime punishable by 26 years in prison.
According to official statistics, 65 out of every hundred women between 15 and 49 years old have suffered some type of violence in Ecuador.