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Marriages in El Salvador | Embassy of the United States San Salvador, El Salvador

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Marriages in El Salvador | Embassy of the United States San Salvador, El Salvador

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Article- 16; Marriage and Family

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El Salvador: Protecting the Right to Decide | Oxfam America

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El Salvador: Protecting the Right to Decide | Oxfam America

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Article-19; Freedom of Expression

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El Salvador: Protecting the Right to Decide | Oxfam America

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El Salvador's right to decide about mining is being threatened by a multi-national mining company, a foreign tribunal holding hearings behind closed doors, and violence against activists. El Salvador has significant environmental and health concerns about mining, and does not see mining as a key to solving the country's poverty and inequality.

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From George Washington to Evo Morales: Re-electionism in the Americas | News | The Human Rights Foundation

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From George Washington to Evo Morales: Re-electionism in the Americas | News | The Human Rights Foundation

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Article- 21; Right to Democracy

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Promoting freedom where it's most at risk.

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El Salvador: Impunity Prevails in Human Rights Cases | Human Rights Watch

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Article- 10; Right to Trial

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Despite a decade of promises by government officials to bring to justice those responsible for gross violations of human rights in El Salvador, the impunity of military officers and death squads members remains intact. Although thousands of cases of political killings, torture, and disappearances of civilians at the hands of government forces have been documented, to date, no officer has been convicted of a politically motivated human rights abuse in El Salvador.1 Six officers have been charged in connection with two recent massacres (see below, Massacre at San Francisco and Slayings of Jesuits, Their Cook, and Her Daughter), but have yet to be tried. The following is a status report on nine human rights cases in which prosecutions are still pending. Despite their particular visibility and significance both internationally and within El Salvador, each case is a story of the denial of justice. The way in which each case has unraveled -- investigations never completed or never initiated, trials that never occur, the persecution of witnesses or judicial officials -- sheds light on the impunity of the armed forces and death squads which allows such gross abuses to continue.

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El Salvador: Impunity Prevails in Human Rights Cases |

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Despite a decade of promises by government officials to bring to justice those responsible for gross violations of human rights in El Salvador, the impunity of military officers and death squads members remains intact.

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Dispatches: 17 Women in El Salvador Need Help This Holiday Season | Human Rights Watch

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Dispatches: 17 Women in El Salvador Need Help This Holiday Season | Human Rights Watch

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Article- 11; We're all innocent until proven guilty

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In El Salvador, 17 women convicted of murder, after being accused of having had an abortion, are sitting in prison for up to 40 years. For some of these women, having a miscarriage or stillbirth was used as evidence to convict them. Activists in El Salvador and around the globe are pressuring the government for their release, hopefully in time for the Christmas holidays.

Under El Salvador's draconian laws, procuring or providing an abortion is a crime - with no exceptions. Anyone who has an abortion and the medical providers who perform or induce them face decades in prison.

Releasing the imprisoned women is a necessary first step to protect their human rights. However, the rights of all El Salvadoran women remain at risk as long as this extreme criminal law remains in place.

Expert human rights bodies have repeatedly expressed concern about the relationship between El Salvador's restrictive abortion laws and detrimental consequences for women's lives, health, and well-being.

Nowhere was that more clear than in the case of women named " Beatriz," who sought medical treatment from a hospital in El Salvador for a life-threatening pregnancy in 2013. Doctors worried that if she continued her pregnancy she could suffer hemorrhaging or severe preeclampsia, a condition that is a leading cause of maternal death. The fetus also had anencephaly - a neural tube defect in which a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp fail to develop. If an anencephalic infant is not stillborn, the baby will often die within hours or days.

In light of information provided to her by medical staff, Beatriz asked for an abortion. Her doctors sought permission from the government to terminate the pregnancy without risking prosecution. They never got it. After months of waiting, Beatriz delivered the baby prematurely via cesarean section. The baby died five hours later. The procedure was much more risky than an early abortion. After the surgery, Beatriz was admitted to the intensive care unit because of heightened concerns of complications with lupus. She was released from the hospital a week after the delivery, and nearly 12 weeks from the time doctors first determined the abortion was a medical necessity.

El Salvador's criminal prohibition on abortion punishes women - whether through jail time or risks to their health - and should be reformed.

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Dispatches: 17 Women in El Salvador Need Help This Holiday Season

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In El Salvador, 17 women convicted of murder, after being accused of having had an abortion, are sitting in prison for up to 40 years. For some of these women, having a miscarriage or stillbirth was used as evidence to convict them.

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El Salvador: Total ban on abortion is killing women and girls and condemning others to decades behind bars | Amnesty International

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El Salvador: Total ban on abortion is killing women and girls and condemning others to decades behind bars | Amnesty International

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Article- 3; The Right to Life