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Nelufar Hedayat examines the impact of the controversial "State of Exception" in El Salvador and the U.S.
Gender inequality can be found in various areas of Salvadoran life such as employment, health, education, political participation, and family life. [1] [2] [3] Although women in El Salvador enjoy equal protection under the law, they are often at a disadvantage relative to their male counterparts.
Today femicide and abuse are driving suicide rates up among Salvadoran women, and forcing many to flee north to seek asylum in the U.S. Violence Against Women in El Salvador Is Driving Them to ...
Abortion in El Salvador is strictly illegal, and the law allows for no exception. In El Salvador, if a woman miscarries, it is frequently assumed she deliberately induced an abortion or could have saved the baby but opted not to. Women who did not know they were pregnant or who could have prevented a miscarriage, face long prison terms. [9] [10]
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [13] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [14] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
Reporting has shown that over 6,000 innocent individuals have been released from Salvadoran prisons during the “State of Exception.” Scripps News spoke with the Vice President of El Salvador ...
December 15 – The U.S. and El Salvador reach an agreement to return asylum-seekers who reach the southern border of the United States back to El Salvador, where they can seek government protection. Similar agreements have been reached with Honduras and Guatemala, but with such little success that critics refer to the program as “deportation ...
Bukele has sought to rewrite some aspects of El Salvador's storied history — which includes being a complex political staging ground that birthed an important revolution, hosting U.S.-backed ...