Organizations dedicated to safeguarding the rights of individuals arbitrarily detained during the state of exception declared it false that no complaints of torture have been filed during Raquel Caballero de Guevara’s tenure at the Office of the Human Rights...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invoked that arm on March 25, 1965: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That marked the final day of the march from Selma to Montgomery, which culminated in the achievement of civil rights, particularly the...
The main association monitoring attacks on journalists in El Salvador has become the latest victim of the country’s controversial Foreign Agents Law. The Salvadoran Journalists Association (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) announced on Oct. 1 that it will go into...
Four years have passed since several organizations lodged a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) over the removal of five justices from the Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia (Constitutional Chamber of the...
On September 2, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) declared a petition admissible against the Salvadoran State over the May 2021 removal of the justices of the Sala de lo Constitucional (Constitutional Chamber) of the Corte Suprema de Justicia...
‘There’s so much power in the wave,” says Australian pro-surfer Sally Fitzgibbons. “It’s like someone broke the tap and it’s just endless swell. I don’t know any other place in the world that’s this consistent.” As she speaks, Fitzgibbons watches surfers on the waves...
