In less than a month, on November 13th, the clock will strike for the Legislative Assembly to produce a national reconciliation law intended to redress grave human rights abuses committed during the Salvadoran armed conflict (1980 – 1992). As part of its 2016 ruling striking down the 1993 Amnesty Law as unconstitutional, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court charged the Legislative Assembly with creating a new law to take its place.

Organizations from the Salvadoran LGBTI+ social movement held a public forum last week to present findings from a new study that unveiled the alarming disparities that LGBTI+ people in El Salvador continue to face in accessing social security services, employment, and education.

As the blatant disregard for the lives of migrants and refugees intensifies globally, we express our solidarity with migrants and refugees being directly impacted by the brutality of border militarization.

Salvadoran social movement rejects new proposal to increase export crops such as sugar cane, pineapple and African palm oil.

The right-wing administration of Presdient Nayib Bukele is moving quickly to dismantle the public sector in El Salvador – and the unions that defend it.

On September 4, the new Minister of Labor notified the Salvadoran Social Security Institute Workers’ Union (STISSS) that the government would no longer recognize their Executive Board, which was democratically elected in December 2018.

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