UN experts* today urged the Government of El Salvador to ensure woman human rights defender Ruth López is granted all fundamental legal safeguards and due process guarantees while in detention. Ruth López is a human rights lawyer and the director of the Justice and...
As Pride Month comes to a close, the family of Andry José Hernández Romero is speaking up on Democracy Now!, pleading for proof of life as the 31-year-old gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker remains missing more than 100 days after being sent to El Salvador’s notorious...
Evangelical churches are often pigeonholed as conservative or “apolitical,” yet history offers another portrait: believers who, compelled by the gospel, have dared to defy human laws they judge unjust or inhumane and therefore contrary to God’s will. For these...
Men with shaved heads, dressed in all-white outfits, walk in a single-file line into a large auditorium with their hands tied behind their backs. They are forced to kneel, then they are bound together in circular formation, facing away from one another. This haunting...
Integrated Health System (Sistema Integrado de Salud, SIS) is a nationwide digital network that links public hospitals and health clinics, providing real-time patient data. It now appears inside the ISSS record as another tab. “With the exception of outpatient...
As he advances along the dimly lit street toward the stop, distant dogs bark and, now and then, a motorcycle shatters the silence. Even at this hour several people are already waiting. He is not alone. Thousands of Salvadorans from Soyapango, Ilopango, San Martín and...
