El Salvador

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR

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

El Salvador: Death threats for activists demanding justice
27 August 2009

Those seeking justice for a murdered environmental activist in Cabañas department, El Salvador, are at risk. Another anti-mining activist has also been shot, and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/001/2009

Summit of the Americas fails to address human rights | Amnesty ...
20 April 2009

TheDeclaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework forprogress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and

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Amnesty International puts human rights on Americas Summit agenda ...
16 April 2009

An Amnesty International delegation has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to take part in the Summit of the Americas.

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International Day of the Disappeared: Global Reach: Regional case ...
28 August 2008

This document includes case studies of enforced disappearances around the world including in Pakistan, Philippines, Iraq, Lebanon, Russia, USA and Chad.

Document       POL 36/001/2008

Annual Report 2008 – Enforced Disappearance Update: Selected ...
28 August 2008

This document includes extracts from the Annual Report 2008 about enforced disappearances in Algeria; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Chad; Colombia; El Salvador; Guatemala ...

Document       POL 36/003/2008

The Wire, August 2008. Vol 38, No. 7
1 August 2008

1) Violence against women in the home continues in Mexico 2) Tunisia: Torturing detainees 3) Ongoing impunity for police violence in Africa 4) Enforced disappearance ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/007/2008

El Salvador: Find the disappeared children
24 July 2008

Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz were seven and three years old, respectively, when they disappeared on 2 June 1982. According to witnesses, the little sisters ...

Document       AMR 29/002/2008