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Executive Summary. Under the state of exception, reports of gang violence decreased significantly, allowing citizens to exercise their right to life, liberty, and security of person, and to engage in daily activities and commerce without the constant threat of violence and extortion.
Dec 7, 2022 · On November 7, 2022, Human Rights Watch asked El Salvador’s Armed Forces for information, including the number of people arrested and of confrontations between the soldiers and gangs.
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: El Salvador. Download Report. Translations. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic with a democratically elected government. In 2019 voters elected Nayib Bukele as president for a five-year term.
- Judicial Independence
- Abuses by Security Forces
- Education
- Prison and Police Barracks
- Gangs and Violence
- Disappearances
- Government Accountability
- Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Disability Rights
- LGBT Rights
During the campaign for the February 2021 parliamentary elections, President Bukele repeatedly accused members of the Supreme Electoral Court of organizing a “fraud,” with no evidence. President Bukele’s party won the elections, obtaining a two-thirds majority. On May 1, the day his supporters were seated in the National Assembly, they summarily re...
President Bukele continued using the military in public security operations, although the 1992 peace accord bars it. In February 2020, President Bukele entered the Legislative Assembly with armed soldiers in an apparent effort to intimidate legislators into approving a loan for the security forces. Between March and May 2020, the police arbitrarily...
Between March 2020 and April 2021, the government closed schools to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Approximately 1.4 million students missed “almost all classroom instruction” between March 2020 and February 2021, according to UNICEF. The government implemented a range of distance learning initiatives, including online classes.
Prisons held over 36,600 detainees in March, twice the official capacity, the World Prison Brief revealed. Approximately 23 percent of inmates were in pretrial detention. Overcrowding and poor sanitation endangered the health of prisoners and risked accelerating the spread of Covid-19.
Approximately 60,000 gang members operate in El Salvador, media report. They exert control over parts of the territory and commit serious abuses, including killings and rape. According to media reports, numerous security and elected officials have collaborated with gangs in criminal operations, and many political parties have negotiated with the gr...
From January 2014 to November 2020, authorities reported more than 13,000 disappearance victims (including more than 400 children)—which exceeds the estimated 8,000 to 10,000 disappeared during the civil war (1979-1992). Disappearances are committed by a range of actors, including gangs and the police. Few cases are investigated.
Impunity for government abuses is the norm. A trial of former military commanders accused in the 1981 El Mozote massacre started in 2016 and continued at time of writing. Soldiers committed mass rape and killed 978 civilians at El Mozote, including 553 children. In September 2020, soldiers—with President Bukele’s backing—refused to comply with a co...
Abortion is illegal under all circumstances. Women face two to eight years in prison for having an abortion. Providers face prison sentences of 6 months to 12 years. In September, President Bukele said that the government-backed constitutional reform would not help ease the country’s prohibition on abortion. Many women, including women who suffered...
El Salvador’s legislative framework remains inconsistent with international disability rights law, with restrictions on legal capacity for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, as well as insufficient measures to improve physical and communication accessibility. Criminal gangs have attacked women and girls with disabilities, with ...
LGBT people remain targets of homophobic and transphobic violence by police, gangs, and the general public. In many cases, LGBT people flee persecution at home, including to the United States. Salvadorean authorities, which in 2017 acknowledged anti-LGBT violence committed by public security officials, reported 692 cases of violence against LGBT an...
Between 2021 and 2022, poverty decreased by 0.5 percent, affecting 29.8 percent of Salvadorans and extreme poverty rose by 0.3 percent, affecting 8.7 percent. In 2022, working-age Salvadorans...
Human Rights Decision. Document file: Download d-slv-86-167-e.pdf 276.37 KB. Language English. Country: El Salvador. IPU structure: Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic with a democratically elected government. In 2019 voters elected Nayib Bukele as president for a five-year term. The election was generally free and fair, according to international observers.
