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Human Rights Watch claimed that these arrests disproportionately burdened the most socio-economically disadvantaged Salvadorans. [8] The United States Department of State released a report documenting alleged human rights violations in El Salvador in 2022. This report alleges that the state of exception in El Salvador has put more pressure on ...
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [14] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [15] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
The human rights organization Cristosal said Wednesday that at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele's 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs. Under ...
El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele ’s harsh anti-gang crackdown, Amnesty International ...
Human rights abuses were rampant during the decade-plus Salvadoran Civil War, including El Mozote Massacres, the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero in 1980, the Zona Rosa attacks, and the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests. Human rights abuses were examined by the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador and the Ad Hoc Commission.
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Protests against re-election occurred in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1 May 2023 and 15 September 2023. In two protest marches, protesters marched from the Cuscatlán Park and the Rosales Hospital to the Gerardo Barrios Plaza in protest of the Salvadoran gang crackdown and President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign.
It is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). [3] It has been publishing an annual activity report since 2003. [4] Odhikar's work has been cited by Human Rights Watch in their 2011 World Report on Bangladesh. [5] The goal for establishing Odhikar was to develop human rights alertness and observing violations in ...