Al Jazeera
- Mar 17
El Salvador extends emergency powers in gang crackdown
Measures enjoy widespread support, but rights groups say they have led to arbitrary arrests and prison overcrowding. El Salvador's gang...
Human Rights Watch
- Feb 1
El Salvador: Leaked Database Points to Large-Scale Abuses
Mass Due Process Violations, Overcrowding, Poor Prospects for Justice People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of...
Reuters
- Jan 31, 2022
Human rights groups concerned about surveillance in El Salvador
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a deployment ceremony for the Territorial Control plan and army officers' graduation...
Christopher Sherman | AP
- Jul 5, 2021
El Salvador's populist leader is defiant
5 July, 2021 | By Christopher Sherman In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are...
Al Jazeera
- May 5, 2021
Victims renew calls for justice as El Mozote trial moves ahead
Recent hearings reveal new details about 1981 massacre of civilians in northeast El Salvador during country’s civil war. By Anna-Cat...
Genocide Watch
- Apr 16, 2021
Timestream: El Salvador's Civil War and Genocide
Genocide Watch staff have published the seventeenth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream covers the...
Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue
Originally published March 5, 2021 In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed...
Holly Scala | Genocide Watch
- Feb 20, 2021
Genocide Watch Country Report: El Salvador
Genocide Watch Country Report: El Salvador February 2021 Monument to the victims of the massacre of El Mozote. Photo: Ernesto Zelaya,...
BBC
- Feb 1, 2021
El Salvador violence: Deadly attack on party activists
Gunmen opened fire on activists from El Salvador's main opposition party, killing two people, a rare political attack that has shocked...
Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service
- Jan 21, 2021
Salvadoran archbishop refuses to open records on El Mozote massacre
Salvadoran Archbishop José Escobar Alas of San Salvador is pictured in Washington April 13, 2018. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn) SAN SALVADOR, EL...
Neela Ghoshal | Human Rights Watch
- Jan 11, 2021
No Safe Haven for LGBT People in El Salvador
Strengthen Protections, End Asylum Pact with US A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, whom she met while migrating to...