IACHR Grants Precautionary Measures to Constitutional Scholar Enrique Anaya in El Salvador — CIDH otorga medidas cautelares al constitucionalista Enrique Anaya en El Salvador

09/23/2025

On September 22, 2025, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) adopted Resolution 67/2025, through which it granted precautionary measures in favor of Salvador Enrique Anaya Barraza, upon determining that he faces a situation of grave and urgent risk, as...

McGovern Leads 18 Members of Congress Telling Secretaries Rubio and Noem to Address Horrific Prison Conditions in El Salvador — McGovern encabeza a 18 miembros del Congreso que instan a los secretarios Rubio y Noem a abordar las atroces condiciones carcelarias en El Salvador

09/23/2025

Today, Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, along with 17 other Members of the House of Representatives, have written a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and...

Family of Deceased Teacher Says He Suffered Abuse in Prison — Familia de profesor fallecido dice que sufrió maltrato en penal

09/23/2025

José* arrived at Zacamil hospital in the municipality of San Salvador Centro this past Friday, September 19, after learning that his brother had been admitted. He walked the hospital’s hallways, his eyes scanning every gurney, but he could not find him. Tired...

Who Was Manuel Mira, the Teacher Who Became the 447th Victim of the State of Exception? — ¿Quién era Manuel Mira, el profesor que fue la víctima 447 del régimen de excepción?

09/23/2025

Manuel de Jesús Cortez Mira taught for more than 30 years in various educational institutions in San Salvador and this past September 21 he died from health complications, after spending a year in prison following his arrest under the state of exception. Civil society...

U.S. Urges El Salvador to Publish More Procurement Information — EE.UU. sugiere a El Salvador publique más información de contrataciones

09/23/2025

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs has recommended that El Salvador improve its fiscal transparency. According to the 2025 Fiscal Transparency Report, measures El Salvador could adopt include: eliminating off-budget accounts or...

UN and IACHR Rapporteurs Urge Governments Not to Criminalize Civil Society or Peaceful Protests — Relatores de la ONU y CIDH instan a no criminalizar a la sociedad civil ni las protestas pacíficas

09/23/2025

Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations (UN) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a joint statement urging the protection of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, in light of foreign agent laws, such as the one...