The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, called for the release of Fidel Zavala, spokesperson for the Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights (Unidehc), after he was sent this week to La Esperanza...
Organizations searching for missing persons issued six alerts during March 2025, five of whom involved individuals later found deceased. Meanwhile, the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) (Attorney General’s Office) reported another seven cases, but all...
On the last working day of 2024, dozens of employees at the Instituto Salvadoreño para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (Isdemu) (Salvadoran Institute for Women’s Development) were organizing files, reviewing reports, and emptying drawers, without anyone asking them...
The National Health Forum (FNS) denounced that in recent months, 27 Family Health Community Teams (ECOS Familiares) have been closed, with two others facing the same threat. This represents the “dismantling of strategic social structures, leaving the population...
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of not respecting human rights and imprisoning innocent people without due process. “I have fought for Human Rights my entire life. In El Salvador,...
It was just a few sentences in a meandering, hourlong presidential speech on a Friday afternoon. Along with talk about falling egg prices and a vow to expel “corrupt forces” from the U.S. government, President Donald Trump noted that hundreds of members of the...
