Reconocimiento legal de los animales como seres sintientes y sujetos de derechos en el Ecuador: Propuesta normativa a partir de la Sentencia 253-20-JH/22 de la Corte Constitucional.
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Ecuador stands out for having a more advanced regulatory and constitutional development than many countries in the region, regarding the recognition of the rights of nature and, recently, of the rights of animals accompanied by their sentience.
Since the 2008 Constitution, nature has been recognized as a subject of rights, placing animals in the background, considering them part of it. However, in 2022, following the case of a female monkey named Estrellita, the Constitutional Court, through...