Coverage on ecoi.net: Reports and press releases. Two inmates told Human Rights Watch that officials provided inadequate food, hygiene products, and medicine, and beat them and used pepper spray during searches. In January, Camila Díaz Cordova, a transgender woman deported from the United States, was beaten to death. ... Camila Díaz Córdova, El Salvador, Hate crime, human rights watch, murder, Virginia Gómez. Presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, en la Asamblea Legislativa en San Salvador, el 9 de febrero de 2020. In January 2019, a judge in Zacatecoluca ruled in favor of a transgender woman seeking to change her name and gender marker on her identity document. State security forces have committed egregious abuses, including extrajudicial executions, sexual assaults, and enforced disappearances. Media outlets widely reported that President Bukele’s choice for national police director has been investigated for threats and links to drug trafficking and groups that have engaged in assassinations. Initial recommendation to the new government on human rights (24 June). The presidential press office barred their reporters from a September press conference. Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808, Associate Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program. LGBT individuals remain targets of homophobic and transphobic violence by police, gangs, and others. An estimated 1.2 … They also have been implicated in serious human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, sexual assaults, other acts of torture and other ill-treatment, and enforced disappearances. 30 April 2020 El Salvador: Open letter to President Nayib Bukele regarding measures taken for COVID-19 A truce lasted from 2012-14 between the national government, 11 municipal governments, and the two largest gangs. Covered monthly on ecoi.net, for countries of priorities A, B and C (annual report (“World Report”) also for D and E) In 2018, the FGR registered 3,664 victims of disappearance, abductions, and unexplained missing person cases, including 1,218 women and at least 24 boys and 29 girls. They forcibly recruit children and subject women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals to sexual abuse. This number far exceeds the prior daily average for 2020 which had remained in the single digits. Human Rights Watch found that some 138 people deported to El Salvador were murdered by gang members, police, soldiers, death squads or ex-partners between 2013 and 2019. Journalists reporting on abuses of power or living in gang-controlled neighborhoods remain targets of death threats. Municipal and legislative elections held in March were generally free and fair, according to international observers, although slow tabulation contributed to reporting delays. EL SALVADOR 2019 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. “One year ago, President Bukele made a commitment to lead the country in a new and better direction. Free and fair municipal and legislative elections took place in 2018. Gangs kill, disappear, rape, or displace those who resist. [1] El Salvador: Memorandum to the President. In September, the FGR announced it would appeal the ruling. The El Salvador Documentation Project provided many of these records to the United Nations Truth Commission when it was created in 1992 to investigate El Salvador’s human rights catastrophe. Mr. Vivanco is a human rights advocate. In 70 percent of cases, witnesses said victims were unarmed. ecoi.net is supported by ECRE & UNHCR. At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being sent back to their violent Central American country from the United States, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. They have failed to investigate crimes and collaborated with gangs. Congressional Research Service - El Salvador - 2019 (PDF), 2020 (PDF) Foreign Government Reports: Canada Immigration & Refugee Board Country Fact Sheet - Jan 2008: Non-Government Organization Reports: Amnesty International (PDF) Freedom House: In Sight Crime - Profile (PDF) Human Rights Watch (PDF) Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. Review of 2019 - El Salvador [AMR 01/1353/2020… Salvadoran deportees, pictured in June 2018, listen to instructions from an immigration officer at La Chacra Immigration Center in San Salvador, El Salvador. On the morning of September 21, a judge arrived at military headquarters in San Salvador with a warrant to review the military’s records regarding the 1981 El Mozote massacre, one of the largest mass killings in modern Latin American history. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday criticized the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as the US for the obstacles it places before asylum seekers. More than 70 others were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted, tortured or went missing. In 2019, police prevented press from covering a veteran’s protest, from visiting homicide scenes, and from the presidential election and inauguration. Truth Commission investigators eventually determined that the order to kill the Jesuits came from the military’s chief of staff, Col. Emilio Ponce, at a meeting of the high command on … El Salvador’s president is directly elected for a single five-year term. In February 2019, Nayib Bukele, who ran on the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) ticket, won the presidential election in the first round with 53.1 percent of the vote, followed by Carlos Calleja of ARENA with 31.72 percent and Hugo Martínez of the FMLN, with 14.41 percent. Do LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Have a Future in the United States? Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. Report on the human rights situation covering 2019. Victims or witnesses of eight arbitrary arrests in two incidents in 2019 and late 2018 told Human Rights Watch of beatings at police barracks and threatened criminal charges for “illicit association,” a vaguely defined offense used to prosecute those suspected of gang membership. More recent concerns have been raised by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.They include women's rights, child labor, and unlawful killings and harassment of labor union members and other social activists. El Salvador has among the world’s highest homicide rates. Girls and women alleged to have had abortions are imprisoned for homicide. In 2018, Salvadorans had 101,000 pending asylum applications in the US, the most of any nationality. El director para las Américas de Human Rights Watch ve un significativo esfuerzo por desmantelar las instituciones democráticas por parte del presidente de El Salvador … ecoi.net is funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Caritas Austria. In July, the FGR charged three policemen with her kidnapping and aggravated homicide. Investigations reached hearings in only 14 of 48 cases involving 116 extrajudicial killings committed from 2014 to 2018 that the Salvadoran Ombudsperson for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH) examined. In August, the Lethal Force Monitor, a collaborative investigation by researchers in five Latin American countries, reported that Salvadoran police and soldiers killed 1,626 people from 2010 through 2017. In January 2019 the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) added a corruption charge to its case against Funes. Authorities claimed that more than 90 percent of the victims were gang members and that nearly all were killed in “confrontations” or “shootouts.”. October 9, 2020 10:50:14 am Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday criticized the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as the US for the obstacles it places before asylum seekers. El Salvador serves as a powerful setting through which to understand the human rights challenges we are facing both at home and globally. Soldiers blocked the judge from entering, blatantly refusing to comply with the judicial order. Girls and women accused of having abortions have been imprisoned for homicide and aggravated homicide. [2] El Salvador: After IACHR’s visit, the government must make major changes to guarantee human rights (News story, 5 December). They have failed to investigate crimes and collaborated with gangs. A nd as the crime numbers have gone down, the population of inmates in jails ha s gone up. Two resulted in convictions. He ordered 24-hour block confinement and, for the first time since 2004, mixed gang populations across prisons. Throughout his election campaign, President Bukele accused media, including El Faro and Revista Factum, which have received journalism’s highest prizes in El Salvador, of lacking objectivity. Congressional Research Service - El Salvador - 2019 (PDF), 2020 (PDF) Foreign Government Reports: Canada Immigration & Refugee Board Country Fact Sheet - Jan 2008: Non-Government Organization Reports: Amnesty International (PDF) Freedom House: In Sight Crime - Profile (PDF) Human Rights Watch (PDF) The judge went to six other military facilities in the following weeks. Providers and those who assist face prison sentences of six months to 12 years. EL SALVADOR 2018 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. The Human Rights Watch in the report being released Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, said that at least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the U.S. in recent years were subsequently killed. 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Marvin Recinos / AFP. Villanueva’s neighborhood [in Choloma] is a prime example, she said. Stay on top of El Salvador latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps. The court found insufficient evidence to convict. In 37 percent, witnesses said they saw police move the body or place or hide evidence. Feb. 14, 2020; Leer en español ... El Salvador’s Supreme Court suspended any acts resulting from the emergency session and ordered Mr. … The actual number of victims is thought to be much higher than reported, since sexual violence, torture or other harm is almost never reported by the press or to authorities, the group noted, particularly when it comes to violence against female deportees. Approximately 60,000 gang members operate in at least 247 of the country’s 262 municipalities, according to media sources. One study estimated the number of displaced in 2017 to be nearly 300,000. Fake stories have circulated under the bylines of journalists who were not the authors, the Association of Journalists of El Salvador reported. At least 138 Salvadorans have been killed after being deported from the U.S. Over 70 have been beaten, sexually assaulted or tortured, a new Human Rights Watch report found. Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Although El Salvador introduced hate crimes into its penal code in September 2015, Salvadoran authorities told Human Rights Watch that to date, only two cases have been prosecuted as hate crimes. Although El Salvador introduced hate crimes into its penal code in September 2015, Salvadoran authorities told Human Rights Watch that to date, only two cases have been prosecuted as hate crimes. In 2016, the Legislative Assembly modified a counterterrorism statute to classify gangs as terrorist organizations. Also in August, the PDDH reported that it had examined killings of 28 boys, 7 women, and 81 men and found few resulted from confrontations.