1998 was a watershed moment for women’s human rights in El Salvador. This was the year that the government decided to take a retrograde step. While most countries around the world were moving towards a liberalization of restrictive laws on abortion, El Salvador moved to criminalize abortion in all...
This statement calls for governments around the world to decriminalise abortion in order to uphold the rights to life, health, and bodily autonomy of women and girls.
The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of El Salvador on 18 March 2015 during its 28th session. Prior to the adoption of the review outcome, Amnesty International delivered this oral statement.
“Guadalupe”, one of the group of 17 Salvadoran women jailed for pregnancy-related offences after unfair trials was pardoned by the Legislative Assembly in a very close vote.
**Yesterday, the Salvadoran authorities finally granted a pardon to Guadalupe, a young woman serving a 30-year jail sentence after suffering a miscarriage.** One of her chief advocates has been Morena Herrera. Here, the ex-freedom fighter, staunch feminist and sexual and reproductive rights...
On Human Rights Day, and as the global “16 days of Activism against Gender Violence” campaign draws to a close, Amnesty International wishes to reaffirm its solidarity with the women and girls of El Salvador and urges the State to put an end to the discriminatory practices, policies and laws that...
Yoshi Garcia is a Salvadoran activist and self-styled “DJ with a conscience”. Aged 24, her interest in gender equality issues started when she was around 14. Since then, she has joined numerous campaigning organizations, including Agrupaçion (the Citizen’s Group for the Decriminalization of...
As part of this year’s Blog Action Day, we take a look at how inequality drives the abuses that Amnesty works against every day. Inequality. It’s a reality we all come to know and understand at some point in our lives. For some of us, our understanding of it starts with a child’s game. I’m...