This document outlines the recommendations that Amnesty International suggests for the Government of El Salvador as part of the 2025 Universal Periodic Review.
This report is the result of three fact-finding missions and 83 interviews, which document the installation of a context marked by the deepening of a punitive and repressive approach to public security; the adoption of a legal framework that compromises due process; the systematic use of torture and other ill-treatment against persons deprived of their…
Open letter to Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, regarding the State of Emergency currently in effect in the country.
The Alliance for Inclusive Mobility in the Pandemic calls on the Mexican government, in order to abide by its international human rights obligations, to temporarily suspend, for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, deportations to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where people’s lives and health are at risk. Public statement.
Amnesty International calls on OAS Member States to include firm commitments in the final resolutions that ensure the protection of the human rights of every person, without distinction, in the final resolutions of the General Assembly. Putting human rights at the centre of state actions would make it possible to arrive at comprehensive solutions to…
In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in the Americas – specifically Venezuela, El Salvador, and Paraguay – have placed tens of thousands of people in state-run quarantine centres in insanitary conditions, sometimes without adequate food, water and medical care. They have also repeatedly extended their quarantine or isolation periods without clear communication…
Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the essential services they need. They have faced reprisals…
In light of the measures implemented by President Nayib Bukele to contain the pandemic, Amnesty International and other international human rights organizations issued an open letter to the President to express concern about the Salvadoran government’s actions.
This document contains Amnesty International’s suggested recommendations to be made to the twelve States undergoing their UPR during the 34th session of the Universal Periodic Review.
Amnesty International believes that the new administration under President Nayib Bukele has a responsibility to promote and implement major and transformative changes in order to realize the international commitments made by El Salvador in the field of human rights. In this brief document, Amnesty International sets out some of its main concerns about the human…
Millions across the Americas are fleeing human rights violations in their countries, seeking protection. Refugees are people who find themselves with no choice other than to leave their lives behind hoping for safety. Many arrive in hostile environments but stepping back home could put their lives at risk. American states must protect those in need…
The arrival in Mexico since 19 October 2018 of between 8,000 and 10,000 migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Honduras, as well as from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as part of a series of so-called caravans is an urgent situation that requires States to respond in line with international human rights law and…