El Salvador: Further information: Appeal against Maria Teresa’s release
El Salvador’s Attorney General filed an appeal to the judge’s ruling that set María Teresa Rivera free.
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El Salvador: Separated families, Broken Ties: Women imprisoned for obstetric emergencies and the impact on their families
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...
Open Letter from Health Professionals Calling for the Decriminalisation of Abortion
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.
El Salvador: 30 years’ jail after suffering a still-birth: Teodora del Carmen Vásquez [case card]
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El Salvador: 30 years’ jail after suffering a still-birth: Teodora del Carmen Vásquez [poster]
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El Salvador: Amnesty International calls on El Salvador to decriminalize abortion and immediately release all women imprisoned for pregnancy-related complications
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.
Amnesty International Annual Report 2014/2015
El Salvador: Further information: ‘Guadalupe’ pardoned by Legislative Assembly
“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.
Defying El Salvador’s total ban on abortion
**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...
El Salvador: In Solidarity with Salvadoran Women and Girls on Human Rights Day
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...
‘I am the present, trying to make a change for the future’
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...
What does it mean to be unequal?
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...