More than two years after a judge in San Francisco de Gotera ordered the El Mozote trial be reopened, the trial is currently in its investigative phase. Despite a lack of cooperation from the Armed Forces of El Salvador and Government authorities, there is strong forensic evidence to corroborate the massacre…
Read MoreThe Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court granted the Legislative Assembly a six-month time frame to produce law for the protection of victims and witnesses of forced internal displacement.
Read MoreA newly released national survey on forced internal displacement and extraordinary security measures provides some hopeful results in regards to the general public’s respect for human rights.
Read MoreOn the 37th anniversary of the massacre of El Mozote and the surrounding area the perpetrators are still being protected by their political and economic power, but the the struggle for justice by the survivors advances firmly forward for the first time.
Read MoreAt least 200 civilians were murdered by the military in the massacre of El Calabozo in 1982, according to the crime report filed by the survivors. The physical evidence of the massacre, which occurred in the area surrounding San Esteban Catarina in San Vicente, is scarce.
Read More“Churches have huge opportunity and power to change the national narrative from ‘kill them all’ to ‘we need a peace process,’” said Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal.
Read More“We haven’t previously seen caravans as an organizational strategy to get to the U.S. and cross the border,” said Celia Medrano, chief program officer at Cristosal, a San Salvador-based organization that works with migrants. “This is going to be the new method of irregular immigration.”
Read MoreAfter one of Sara’s children received death threats, the entire family fled from the Department of San Salvador to a small town. There, they have tried to rebuild their lives, start a business, and live in peace. But things don’t seem so different, and they are starting to feel watched again.
Read MoreCristosal, in partnership with various civil society organizations in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, presents its latest report.
Read MoreThe Madelein Lagadec Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CPDH) and Cristosal inform the national and international community, and the media of the judicial proceedings for the exhumation of the remains of the victims murdered in the El Calabozo Massacre.
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978 people were killed in December 1981 in the massacre of El Mozote and the surrounding areas. Of these people, 477 were under the age of 12 and 248 were under the age of 6.
Organization like Cristosal ask the IACHR to intervene, and request that the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America improve attention given to victims.
Read MoreU.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to cut aid to Honduras if it doesn’t stop a caravan of some 2,000 migrants
Read MoreAccording to Conadeh, 625 People are obligated to leave their homes, and another 764 are at risk of displacement.
Read MoreA caravan of around 1,300 Honduran migrants is currently making its way from Honduras to the US.
Read MoreCrises of violence, protection and governance grip the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), casting tens of thousands of men, women and children into a potentially endless cycle of displacement and danger.
Read MoreSome 300,000 Salvadorans were displaced last year, and many remain on the run from gang violence. Elizabeth Ferris and Walter Kalin explain why a new draft law on internal displacement in El Salvador is a chance to help them and provide a model for other countries.
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