A federal judge has ordered declarations from all government officials involved in the decision to send more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador in March to determine whether Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem or anyone else should be referred...
Human rights defenders and representatives of feminist organizations in El Salvador began this November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, by assembling in front of the entrance to the National Palace in the Historic Center of San...
This Thursday marked the expiration of the extraordinary deadline the Salvadoran State requested from the IACHR to provide information on the whereabouts of Élmer Antonio Escobar González, a Salvadoran national deported from the United States to El Salvador in March...
Salvadoran women do not live in the safest country in the Western Hemisphere, as the government of Nayib Bukele proclaims, nor are they secure even when it comes to sexual violence. El Salvador recorded a rate of 253 cases per 100,000 women in 2024, double that of...
Between 2019 and 2025, at least 646 women in El Salvador have been murdered in contexts of femicidal violence, the majority at the hands of partners, former partners, or family members within their own homes. In a nation portrayed as “safer” due to the overall drop in...
Ivania Cruz, an attorney for the Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights (UNIDEHC), denounced the government’s improper use of international mechanisms to continue intimidating, persecuting, and threatening individuals beyond its borders. She argued the...
