The State Department on Tuesday released an annual collection of reports on human rights records in nearly 200 nations, but left out language on persistent abuses in many nations that was present in prior reports. The omissions were another sign of the Trump...
The human rights situation “has deteriorated” in Brazil, but in El Salvador “there are no credible reports” that abuses are occurring. In Israel and the occupied territories, the only war crimes are perpetrated by Hamas. That is how the United States Department of...
At least 10 people with disabilities have died in the custody of the Salvadoran state while detained in prisons under the state of exception, reveals a new report from the NGO Cristosal. The report documents testimonies of human rights violations in the application of...
Berty Manuel Acevedo Parada, one of the lawyers designated by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to prosecute human rights defender Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro for the crime of illicit enrichment, is the son of Deputy Attorney General Cándida Dolores Parada de...
No great power has any need for an underdeveloped, dependent country—least of all one dependent on that very power. Humanity has witnessed the formation and evolution of different states shaped by, among other factors, coercion and capital, as Professor Charles Tilly...
A report on deaths documented by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid) of people imprisoned in the custody of state security agents since March 2022—when El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, implemented...
