Expert witnesses form a key part of the legal strategy in the case of the massacre of El Mozote, considering the plaintiff’s lack of access to military and government documents on the operation.
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Letter from the surviving victims and the family members of the victims of the 1981 massacre of El Mozote and the surrounding area regarding the proposal of a new amnesty law in El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly.
Read MoreIn the past few years, the US has increased financial and training for the Salvadoran judicial and police systems. However, some concerning reports have emerged that suggest that US aid is being used to fund abusive police units.
Read MoreThe risk of a new amnesty law for the human rights violations that took place during El Salvador’s armed conflict
Read MoreMore 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 MoreA human rights group in El Salvador founded by Episcopal clergy is using the courts to force the government there to live up to its responsibility to protect hundreds of thousands of citizens internally displaced by rampant violence, criminal and otherwise.
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“A human rights group in El Salvador founded by Episcopal clergy is using the courts to force the government there to live up to its responsibility to protect hundreds of thousands of citizens internally displaced by rampant violence, criminal and otherwise.”
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
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