El Salvador

Almost a decade after the end of the civil war, El Salvador is struggling with its consequences. Impunity reigns, while threats to human rights defenders, torture and killings continue to raise their head occasionally. For more information see an intro to human rights in El Salvador

Documents | Reports | UN | OAS | Analysis | Actions | NGOs | News | Government & Law | Links

Documents

• The Case of the Four Churchwomen
  Documents by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
  Documents from the National Security Archive
• Woerner Report on El Salvador

Reports

• Amnesty International Reports on El Salvador
  
  
• El Salvador Refugee Information
• US State Department Human Rights Reports for El Salvador
  1999 | 1998 | 1997 |
• US State Department Reports on Religious Freedom in El Salvador
  2000 | 1999
• Human Rights Reports in Spanish

UN

• Report of the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador
  April 1, 1993
• On the Record: UN Human Rights Activities
  2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997
  
  
• UN Documents in Spanish

OAS

• IACHR Report on the Massacre of the Jesuits
  Dec. 1999
• IACHR Report on the Human Rights Situation in El Salvador
  1994
• IACHR Annual Reports

Analysis

• El Salvador's Death Squads: New Evidence from U.S. Documents
  By Lauren Gilbert, Center for International Policy 1994.
• Salvadoran Transnationalism: Towards the Redefinition of The National Community
  by Patricia Landolt
• Human Rights Articles in Spanish

Actions

• Actions from the World Organization Against Torture on El Salvador

NGOs

• Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America

Media

• Proceso
  Magazine by the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas
• Spanish-language Media

Government & Law

• Main Salvador Government Site
• States of Emergency Laws
  Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law, The Queen's University of Belfast
• Spanish language law sites
• Spanish language government sites

Links

• Background Notes: El Salvador, March 1999
  US Department of State
• El Salvador: A Country Study
• El Salvador Research Links
• Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
• Human Rights info on El Salvador by Radio Netherlands
• Images of El Salvador
• Lanic Links on El Salvador
• Romero: God's Revolutionary
• Share Foundation
  Sustainable development
• Sweatshop Watch
  Independent Monitoring Group of El Salvador
• World Factbook 1999 - El Salvador

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