During its visit to Ecuador, the Working Group found that the problems faced by people of African descent in the country related mainly to a lack of access to such basic services as adequate housing, health care and education, disproportionately high levels of unemployment and representation in detention centres, an undervaluing of the Afro-descendent contribution to the national identity and the negative representation of Afro-descendents in the media.
Sin perjuicio de los procedimientos aplicables establecidos en el Derecho comunitario y nacional, la Comisión podrá solicitar el dictamen del coordinador europeo con ocasión de la tramitación de las solicitudes de financiación comunitaria relativas a los proyectos o grupos de proyectos que se inscriban dentro de su cometidoUN-2 UN-2