Full Coverage: El Salvador

21.03.2008 A new U.S.-run police-training school in El Salvador's capital is drawing comparisons to the notorious military schools that trained some of Latin America's worst human rights offenders, writes Wes Enzinna.

03.08.2007 In the years following the ratification of the extremely controversial USA PATRIOT Act, other countries across the world, including the Philippines and El Salvador, have introduced equally contentious counter-terrorism statutes that have had serious implications on civil rights, say advocates.

16.11.2006 El Salvador’s bloody 1980-1991 war left 2,393 disappeared, according to the country’s Truth Commission, established after the January 1992 Peace Accords between the Nationalist Republican Alliance government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).

09.11.2006 Save the Children has worked in El Salvador since 1979, responding to the needs of children and communities affected by poverty.

04.10.2006 SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (IPS) - El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development.

04.10.2006 When residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A meeting was called. Community members expressed outrage that the water company's $7 per month bill always arrived on time, but taps barely flowed.

02.08.2006 To inform locals of the social and environmental costs of mining, as well as their rights to oppose it, a "Central American Week of Action Against Mining" was organized recently.

11.07.2006 Dr. Juan Manuel Canales has spent 25 years assisting poor peasant and indigenous communities in El Salvador and Chiapas, on the Mexico-Guatemala border, to demand their right to healthcare. He's been given this year's Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.

03.04.2006 against a large banner backdrop boasting a picture of the government Commission on Disappeared Children’s first reencounter, amidst cries of “The president should be here” from family members of the disappeared, Chancellor of the Republic of El Salvador Francisco Laínez publicly expressed regret to the Serrano Cruz family on behalf of the Salvadoran government, but failed to explicitly ask them for forgiveness.

18.11.2005 Two hundred El Salvadorean women who suffered during the recent floods and volcanic eruption staged a protest demanding greater protection against extreme climatic phenomena.

08.11.2005 In an effort to scale up HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts, PAHO hopes to stem the growing epidemic in Central America, paying particular attention to the effects of the disease on vulnerable populations such as children and the poor.

04.10.2005 A volcano that killed two and forced thousands to flee could roar to life again, after a century asleep.

09.08.2005 When the price of gold started to rise in recent years, investors turned their attention back to Central America, where long-identified mineral deposits can now be extracted with new technologies based on the leaching of gold using cyanide and the enforcement of regulations on the industry is notoriously lax. PDF Document.

05.07.2005 The Global Networked Readiness in Education survey seeks to aid school leaders and policymakers by helping them to examine the role and effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into formal learning.

13.04.2005 As the U.S. Congress prepares to consider the free trade treaty with Central America known as CAFTA, Oxfam America's partners from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sent fair trade advocates to Washington D.C. The representatives gave firsthand accounts of the adverse consequences of CAFTA on small farmers, agricultural workers, indigenous people, and the environment in Central America. Hear their stories.

05.04.2005 O 24 de março é um dia em que a Igreja de El Salvador relembrou os 25 anos do assassinato do Arcebispo de San Salvador, Dom Oscar Arnulfo Romero, que foi exemplo na luta em defesa dos direitos humanos. Relembra também todos o mártires da América Latina, que seguiram a teologia da Libertação, movimento da Igreja católica progressista que nos anos setenta e oitenta enfrentou a repressão das ditaduras militares da América latina, denunciando torturas, massacres, prisões arbitrarias e outras violações frequentes dos direitos humanos.

04.03.2005

19.01.2005 The last Latin American country remaining in Iraq is now helping the U.S. out with soldiers in Haiti too--and hoping for a big payoff in return.

06.01.2005 Com diferentes atividades, a igreja de El Salvador iniciou as homenagens ao 25º aniversário de morte do bispo Oscar Romero, assassinado em 1980. Jornadas de reflexão e missas que vão acontecer no túmulo do monsenhor, que está no sótão da catedral metropolitana de São Salvador estão inclusas.

08.10.2004 With about 29,000 adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, communities in El Salvador need information to counter the growing threat from the disease. World Vision is sponsoring training seminars on HIV transmission, infection and impact for pastors who are the spiritual leaders of Salvadoran communities.