El Salvador
El Salvador has one of the world’s highest homicide rates, partially due to corruption and impunity. State security forces have committed egregious abuses, including extrajudicial executions, sexual assaults, and enforced disappearances. They have failed to investigate crimes and collaborated with gangs. Gangs exercise territorial control, extort residents, and kill, disappear, rape, or displace those who resist them. Girls and women alleged to have had abortions are imprisoned for homicide.
News
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El Salvador: Inhumane Prison Lockdown Treatment
President’s Call for Lethal Force Ignores Basic International Standards
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El Salvador: President Defies Supreme Court
OAS Should Address Disregard for Rights Rulings, Constitution
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El Salvador: Police Abuses in Covid-19 Response
Arbitrary Detention, Hazardous Conditions in Detention, Quarantine
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Justice for LGBT Salvadorans Requires Reckoning with Hate
No Hate Crime Conviction Despite Five Years of LGBT Murders Since Legislative Reform
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President Bukele, Brute Force Is Not the Way Forward for El Salvador
The head of state’s actions threaten democracy in the Central American nation.
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US: Deported Salvadorans Abused, Killed
Stop Deporting Salvadorans Who Would Face Risks to Their Safety, Lives
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US: Bill Would Shut Doors to Central Americans
Legislation Would Effectively End Asylum at Southern Border
