Recent detentions of community leaders, human rights defenders, and peasant farmers in the El Triunfo canton, Santa Tecla, have raised alarms about the closing of democratic spaces in El Salvador. Various sectors warn that the state’s use of force against...
Human rights organization Amnesty International spoke out against the Salvadoran state’s repression of residents of the El Bosque cooperative in Santa Tecla, who were evicted by the Police and Armed Forces with excessive use of force on the night of Monday, May...
After President Nayib Bukele announced he will present a proposed Foreign Agents Law, which had been paused in November 2021, various organizations have expressed concern about the measure. They assert that this initiative is a kind of “punishment for NGOs that...
The implementation of a Foreign Agents Law establishing a 30% tax on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) would primarily affect the communities that benefit from their projects, many of them in vulnerable conditions where state services do not reach, according to...
El Salvador recorded at least 10 femicides between January and last April, half of which were committed by victims’ partners or ex-partners, according to statistics shared this Wednesday by the Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (Ormusa, Salvadoran...
The Healthcare Workers’ Union (Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Salud, SITRASALUD) and the Salvadoran Social Security Institute Medical Workers’ Union (Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, SIMETRISSS) told LA PRENSA...
