Salvadoran lawyer and activist David Morales testified this Friday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that at least a dozen attorneys have left El Salvador this year out of fear of arbitrary detention, amid a backdrop of escalating...
Current Prevalence and Driving Factors On August 16, 2017, El Salvador’s Family Code underwent a reformation. The updated Family Code set the legal age of marriage to 18 for women and men, opposed to its previous ruling, which stated that girls could marry regardless...
Martyrs Remembered, a Champion of Justice, Missed Just before dawn on November 16, 1989, soldiers from an elite Salvadoran Army unit walked onto the campus of the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas,” better known as UCA. By the time they left, the...
Fitch Ratings has affirmed El Salvador’s Long-Term debt ratings at ‘B-‘ and assigned a Recovery Rating of ‘RR4’, following the removal of the ratings from Under Criteria Observation (UCO). The rating actions reflect the application of...
Accused of embezzlement or misappropriation of state funds, human rights defense attorney Ruth López was arrested on the night of May 18 under circumstances her husband, Louis Benavides, describes as unusual. Shortly after the detention, the Office of the Attorney...
The Hidden Toll Independent databases, assembled from family reports and forensic analyses, expose a landscape of systemic abuses and glaring opacity. Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid): Has documented more than 430 deaths under state custody and...
