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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.
Truth Commission for El Salvador; Active: 1992–1993: Established: 1 July 1992: Report Released: March 1993: Scope of Commission: 1980–1992: Sanctioned by: UN Secretary General: Country: El Salvador: Chairman: Belisario Betancur: Purpose: Investigate the extent of human rights violations throughout the 12 year civil war.
On July 19, 1975, while television audiences from around the world watched the finale of the Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador, [4] [2] students in Santa Ana and San Salvador protested the government expenditure of 1 million colones ($114,393.10 USD in 2023) on the beauty contest during a context of great social inequality.
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 ...
In the last decade or so, El Salvador has gone from among the most violent countries in the world to among Latin America’s safest. The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per ...
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 from 2022. This report alleges that the state of exception in El Salvador has put more pressure on ...
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 ...
The situation in El Salvador in 1990–1991 was characterized by a continuing civil war and hopes for peace that culminated in intense UN-sponsored talks. These achieved a cease-fire agreement in a December 1991 New Year's Eve "Act of New York" which expanded the original ONUSAL established by Security Council Resolution 693, whose limited mission was restricted to monitoring human rights, and ...