The magistrates of the First Criminal Chamber concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante did not commit the crime of sexual assault, despite the fact that it was documented the touching of the genital area of a child under 10 years old, because the facts indicated it took place on a “public road”, briefly, without violence […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) One night in Teosinte I met Julian*, who told me he migrated to the U.S. six years ago and was held in a “freezer” inside a detention center. One night, on his way to the U.S., he managed to fall asleep under some bushes, but then woke up with […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) One of the scheduled activities with our migration delegation was meeting with Santos Paulino and Cleotilde Ramirez, from COFAMIDE, also with Alejandra Bonilla, a psychologist supporting them. COFAMIDE is the Committee of relatives of disappeared migrants. It started as an organization of those who did not know the whereabouts of their […]
Joan Ellis and Dennis Chinoy, from the Bangor Committee, have recently published their thoughts on migration in the “Bangor Daily News”. Joan wrote: Many young Salvadoran males ended up in large cities like Los Angeles where, alone and vulnerable, they became ripe targets for gang recruitment. After the widespread 1992 riots in Los Angeles in […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The youth Committee “Ana Francisca for a free spirit” (AFEL, in Spanish) keeps working with the young people of the community in Teosinte. They recently held a workshop about environrment and they share some pictures with us. Besides that, CRIPDES regional office, CCR, accompanied them in another workshop. Arely […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last thursday, Alfredo Lopez, youth promoter in CRIPDES San Vicente, led another workshop with the beneficiaries of the scholarship program. Since this was the midyear session, they took the opportunity to evaluate the work done so far. There was a summary of the lessons learned and the promoter asked for feedback from […]
(ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL) CRIPDES Sur has done great work promoting women empowerment and autonomy through the Savings and Loans groups for women. This project for rural women started back in 2014 with the financial support of OXFAM. In La Libertad, CRIPDES, in coordination with FECORACEN have joined efforts to form a Women´s Network of […]
Our friend Rachel Dunlap went recently to the southern border and she decided to share her experience with the migration working group and any of you who might be interested in the human face of the “migrants” discussion. I just returned from a trip to the southern border with a group of students and […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The Youth National Round Table of CRIPDES has been reactivated and endorsed by AIETI through the project “Active and Empowered Citizenship to Promote a Culture of Peace In La Libertad and San Salvador”. The five regions of CRIPDES (CRIPDES San Vicente, CRIPDES Sur La Libertad, CCR, UCRES, PROGRESO) have active work […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Thanks to the support of AIETI, the women’s table of CRIPDES has been able to get together once again in the central office after two years. This meeting enabled them to analyze all the work that has been done in the regional offices during all this time, despite the lack of […]