El Salvador

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR

Amnesty International  Report 2013


The 2013 Annual Report on
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Three decades on, the search continues for El Salvador's stolen ...
1 June 2012

Decades after El Salvador's armed conflict, hundreds of families still search for children who were taken from them amid the fighting.

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Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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US ruling against Salvadoran ex-General a 'huge' victory for ...
7 March 2012

A US immigration court has ruled that a former Salvadoran Defence Minister can be deported on the basis of grave abuses during the 1980s civil war.

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El Salvador: Demand justice for massacre victims
9 December 2011

International pressure is growing on the government of El Salvador to ensure justice for the victims of a series of massacres carried out by the armed forces in ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/004/2011

El Salvador: Further information: New death threats to journalists
27 May 2011

Pablo Ayala, a journalist and Oscar Beltrán and Cristina Starr, two staff members working at Radio Victoria in Cabañas, El Salvador, have received new death threats ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/003/2011

El Salvador: Journalists threatened and at risk
10 May 2011

Journalists at Radio Victoria in Cabañas, a department in El Salvador, have received repeated death threats. Amnesty International believes that staff at Radio ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/002/2011

El Salvador: Human rights defender receives death threat: Hector ...
25 January 2011

Hector Berríos, a community activist and human rights lawyer in Cabañas, a department of El Salvador, received death threats by phone on 23 January. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/001/2011

Salvadoran environmental activists killed and radio station staff ...
5 January 2010

Ramiro Rivera and Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto were killed in December. They both opposed mining projects in the central Cabañas area.

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El Salvador: Two activists killed, others threatened
4 January 2010

Local radio station staff have received death threats, days after anti-mining activists were killed. Radio Victoria staff received death threats in email and mobile ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/001/2010

Suggested recommendations to states considered in the seventh ...
1 December 2009

In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of each of sixteen countries to be considered in the Universal Periodic Review. ...

Document       IOR 41/030/2009