MSID—Human Rights in Ecuador

Learn about human rights issues, development models, and globalization in the culturally rich country of Ecuador. With an extensive indigenous history and diverse peoples, it is the ideal location to improve your Spanish language skills and participate in a 6-week internship or research project. Placements are available within a three-hour radius of the capital, Quito. Few countries as small as Ecuador contain such remarkable geographic and biological diversity. Geographically, it ranges from coastal deserts to temperate mountain valleys to Amazon forests. Culturally and racially, its population includes indigenous, Spanish, and African elements. The program is based in Quito, an Andean city with a remarkable combination of colonial and modern, rich and poor.