U.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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Last Wednesday, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, El Salvador reiterated the need for a law protecting victims of forced displacement.
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The plaque in front of the El Mozote memorial reads: “They did not die. They are with us, with you, and with all humanity.” As part of humanity, you and I have a choice. Will we let the victims of the El Mozote massacre lay forgotten in a remote corner of El Salvador? Will we let countless others, in El Salvador, in South Sudan, in Syria, join them? Or will we stand with witnesses like Dorila and demand change?
Read MoreIn a monumental ruling on July 13, El Salvador’s Supreme Court formally charged the administration of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the Attorney General’s Office, and the National Civil Police with violating citizens’ Constitutional rights by failing to protect and assist victims of forced internal displacement caused by violence.
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Two recent reports, one from the UN and the other from Cristosal, re-emphasize the fact that violence is continuing to force young Salvadorans to flee their homes and their country.
Read MoreListen to this recent NPR interview with Obama-era secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, on immigration and Trump. Here’s the quick version:
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A statement from Executive Director Noah Bullock regarding the U.S. policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
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“What is the law if you don’t apply it?” asks Dorila Marquez, head of the Association for the Defense of Human Rights in El Mozote, in this article from the New York Times.
Read MoreDespite its relatively tiny size, El Salvador ranked tenth globally with 296,000 new displacements caused by conflict in 2017.
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85 families from El Castaño, who fled from crime in 2016, have returned to their community.
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In regard to the appeals for amparo (protection) filed by families displaced by violence before the Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador’s Supreme Court, Cristosal expresses:
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In El Salvador, six families who had suffered forced displacement filed requests for protection (amparos) to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice at various times during the past year. To date, the Court has admitted five of these lawsuits and is in the process of admitting the sixth.
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Cristosal’s executive director, Noah Bullock, suggests that the authorities will start creating policies for victim protection when the population demands it.
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Human rights organization Cristosal released its 2017 Annual Report on Forced Displacement in El Salvador on Thursday, April 26 to draw attention to the phenomenon and its victims, who are overlooked in El Salvador’s public policy and national dialogue. The same factors that have caused a surge in Salvadoran requests for U.S. asylum in recent years have also displaced hundreds of thousands of people inside the country.
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Admitting forced internal displacement exists would mean admitting defeat for the government. Their refusal to accept the problem makes an already desperate situation worse for displaced people. Thus, the government's position regarding internal displacement is not just lazy, but malicious.
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