El Salvador: Archbishop’s changing story about Tutela Legal closure
Archbishop Escobar Salas keeps changing his story about the closure of key human rights organisation Tutela Legal.
El Salvador: closure of human rights office threatens vital archives
Tutela Legal, the leading human rights organisation in El Salvador has been abruptly closed down by Archbishop Escobar Alas.
El Salvador: Justice closing in on the Jesuits’ killers
A US court imprisons the ex-commander of the Belloso Battalion, clearing the way for his extradition to Spain.
Environmental Network for Central America (ENCA)
ENCA works directly with communities in Central America, struggling for environmental and social justice, and provides small-scale funding for sustainable projects.
Latin America: Researching crime, violence and security
Violence in Tegucigalpa and Rio de Janeiro, organised crime in El Salvador, the authoritarian legacy in Argentina ... some of the research topics for LAB partner Researching Security.
EL SALVADOR: BEATRIZ GIVES BIRTH AFTER THERAPEUTIC ABORTION DENIED
After a Supreme Court ruling which denied an abortion, and intervention by the IACHR, Beatriz gave birth by caesarean. Her baby has died.
El Salvador: urgent appeal
LAB partner CAWN (Central America Women's Network) is appealing for support in a petition to the government of El Salvador to allow doctors to save a women's life through permitting an abortion
POPE FRANCIS: NO ROMERO, HE DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM THE POOR
One of Latin America's most distinguished Jesuits and liberation theologians reflects on the new papacy.
EL SALVADOR: 20 YEARS ON FROM THE TRUTH COMMISSION
It's been two decades since El Salvador decided to try to heal the wounds caused by years of war. WOLA analyses the importance of the Truth Commission in times where El Salvador suffers another kind of violence.
EL SALVADOR: ONE YEAR GANG TRUCE
For over year homicide rates have declined dramatically in El Salvador, apparently as the result of a truce between the gangs. Good news but more transparency and investment will be needed if there is to be lasting success, says Kari Mariska Pries.