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.
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AmericasOn the morning of September 21, a judge arrived at military headquarters in San Salvador with a warrant to review the military’s records regarding the 1981 El Mozote massacre, one of the largest mass killings in modern Latin American history. Soldiers blocked the judge from entering, blatantly refusing to comply with the judicial order. The judge went to six other military facilities in the following weeks. Each time, soldiers prevented the judge from examining the records.
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LGBT Rights
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“Every Day I Live in Fear”
Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and Obstacles to Asylum in the United States
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News
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Interview: LGBT People Flee Violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Discrimination Follows them from Home to the US Border
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El Salvador: Police Officers Convicted for Transgender Murder
Further Efforts Needed to Prevent, Prosecute Hate Crimes
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El Salvador: Broad Powers Limit Accountability
No Answers on Covid-19 Test Results, Quarantine, Government Spending
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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
