It is noon on the island. Daysi Campos, not yet fifty, pedals home from the mangrove on her bicycle. In her backpack she carries the curil clams she managed to dig up. “It is not much; I only stay out there a short while, I cannot keep working long,” she says one July...
On June 24, 2025, experts from eleven special procedures of the United Nations (UN) released a letter warning of the human rights violations suffered by Venezuelan nationals deported from the United States to El Salvador. Among the signatories was Ana Lorena...
The 425th inmate to die behind bars has a name: Humberto Adonay Escobar Mónico, 38. His family has filed a homicide complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and with the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), demanding an investigation into possible...
In recent months, employees of the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS) have sounded the alarm over what they see as signs of an impending merger with the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health, MINSAL). After weeks of...
According to official records, at least three fires have ravaged publicly administered markets over the past year, jeopardizing the livelihoods of hundreds of self-employed vendors in the districts of San Salvador, San Miguel, and Soyapango. On August 2, 2024, flames...
The number of detainees who have died while in the custody of El Salvador’s security forces under the state of exception imposed in March 2022 has risen to 427, the non-governmental organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) reported on...
