Tag Archives: human rights violations

Rural youth and the state of exception in El Salvador

The Share Foundation and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities (USESSC) would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar: Rural youth and the state of exception in El Salvador   We will have the participation of three young persons from the regions of UCRES, La Libertad and Chalatenango. They will share what the state of exception […]

Recursos para reportar violaciones a DDHH durante el régimen de excepción

Dado el temor que sienten muchas personas, especialmente jóvenes, en las zonas rurales en las que trabaja CRIPDES, hemos creado esta compilación de recursos para facilitarles el reporte de violaciones a Derechos Humanos que puedan sufrir durante la extensión del régimen de excepción implementado por el gobierno salvadoreño.   TELÉFONOS PROCURADURÍA PARA LA DEFENSA DE […]

El Salvador update 16-4-20 / Actualización

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Today the Legislative Assembly must analyze whether the restriction of rights during the pandemic is extended, as requested by President Nayib Bukele. Last Sunday they decided to extend it just for four days. The journalist Fernando Romero (whom the president previously excluded from an event) explains the reforms that various groups […]

Human Rights in jeopardy in El Salvador amid pandemic

On April 6th, president Nayib Bukele gave instructions to the armed forces to be tougher on people violating the lockdown declared amid the COVID19 pandemic. “I have instructed them to be tougher on people on the street. I don’t want to see people complaining when their car is taken away and they taken to the […]

Why we shouldn’t ask Bukele to veto the Reconciliation Law

Last night ARENA, PDC and PCN voted in favor of a new amnesty law, “The Reconciliation Law”. One of the main criticism to this law is “that it allows judges to significantly commute sentences for reasons of health or age, or because alleged perpetrators collaborate“.  President Bukele has said he plans to veto it. Nevertheless, […]

Human Rights Organization “Probusqueda” Office Ransacked by Armed Men

November 14, 2013 At 4:30am this morning in San Salvador, three armed men forced their way into the office of Probusqueda, a prominent Salvadoran human rights organization that searches for and reunites children who were forcibly disappeared during the civil war with their families. After the men attacked, tied up, and disarmed the security guard, they […]

Removing the Veil: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence

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 […]

Salvadoran Radio Association Condemns Murder of Honduran Journalist

by the Association of Participatory Radios and Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS) July 15th, 2011 Yesterday Nery Jeremias Orellana was killed , director of the Community radio station, Radio Joconguera in the municipality of Candelaria in southern Honduras near the border with El Salvador.The young journalist was also a correspondent of Radio Progreso, located in […]

The Nation Reports on “Open Season on Teachers in Honduras”

http://www.thenation.com/article/160472/open-season-teachers-honduras Dana Frank May 5, 2011 In Honduras, it’s come to this: when 90 percent of the city’s 68,000 public schoolteachers went out on strike in March to protest the privatization of the entire public school system, the government teargassed their demonstrations for almost three solid weeks, then suspended 305 teachers for two to six months […]

Social Organizations Demand Investigation of Murders of Activists, May 13 2008

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 […]