Social Movement Organizations File Lawsuit Against Unconstitutional Appointments of Ex-Generals On February 21, a group of Salvadoran human rights organizations submittted a lawsuit alleging that the recent appointments of two former generals to the posts of Minister of Justice and Public Safety, and CEO of the National Police are unconsitutional. During the rally and press […]
January 17, 2012 From the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) On Monday morning, January 16, crowds gathered in the small community of El Mozote to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords that ended El Salvador´s 12-year-long civil war. El Mozote, in the rural department of Morazán, is the […]
On Friday June 24th, over fourty members of the organizations Sister Cities and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, CISPES, gathered in front of the Attorney General’s office in San Salvador to demand an end to impunity in El Salvador. Members of the two visiting delegations addressed the press, calling on […]
HONDURAS SOLIDARITY NETWORK: SUMMARY OF LOBO REGIME VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE MID-MARCH ESCALATION Over the last few weeks, attacks against peaceful demonstrators and human rights defenders have intensified throughout Honduras. Under the regime of Porfirio Lobo, who assumed power following undemocratic elections in late 2009, the targeted violent attacks against political opponents and human […]
On the recent USESSC trip to Honduras we received a request from our friends at COFADEH, The Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, for an urgent action in support their colleague, Hector Soto, a leader in the Honduran resistance and director of the Civil Society Group in Honduras. Take […]
Killing of Community Leader in Huisisilapa another on the List of Unsolved Homicides Dear Friends, We write you with more sad news of the shooting of Rafaela Hernández Delgado of the CRIPDES repopulated community of Huisisilapa last Thursday the 24th of July. Rafaela was twenty-seven years old, a community leader, and the wife of […]
Civil Society Organizations Demand the Attorney General Investigate the Murders of the Human Rights Activists On May 12th diverse organizations from the Civil Society presented a report to the Attorney General of the Republic (AG) to demand investigations into the various murders of human rights promoters in El Salvador. The report was motivated by […]
International Statement Regarding the Assassination of Hector Antonio Ventura, Ex-Political Prisoner in the Suchitoto 13 case, and Political Killings in El Salvador: May 2008 We join the Association for Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, the Foundation for the Application and Study of Law, FESPAD, and the more than forty member organizations of the Coalition for […]
September 20th: COMMITTEE OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN EL SALVADOR TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION WE DENOUNCE: The stubborn, arbitrary and unjust attitude of the government of the Salvadoran State, against our family members captured last July 2nd in Suchitoto. President Elias Antonio Saca and his Attorney General, upon their inability […]
POLITICAL VERDICT, PARTIAL VICTORY CRIPDES and CORDES inform you: Thursday the 19th of July around 8:30 pm, the Special Penal Tribune announced, through representation by the Judges Gloria de la Paz Lizama and Sandra Chicas, a verdict that does not leave any doubt about the political decisions of the ARENA government in the treatment […]