Sources

 Overview and Historical Context

El Salvador 2022 Human Rights Report - U.S. Department of State, www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/415610_EL-SALVADOR-2022-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf. Accessed 13 Sept. 2023.

“El Salvador: Widespread Abuses under State of Emergency.” Human Rights Watch, 7 Dec. 2022, www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/07/el-salvador-widespread-abuses-under-state-emergency. 

Menjívar, Cecilia, and Andrea  Gómez Cervantes. “El Salvador: Civil War, Natural Disasters, and Gang Violence Drive Migration.” Migrationpolicy.Org, Migration Policy Institute, 1 Feb. 2022, www.migrationpolicy.org/article/el-salvador-civil-war-natural-disasters-and-gang-violence-drive-migration.

Perelló, Lucas, and Patricio Navia. “The disruption of an institutionalised and Polarised Party System: Discontent with democracy and the rise of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.” Politics, vol. 42, no. 3, 2022, pp. 267–288, https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221077181.

Rosen, Jonathan D., et al. “Gangs, violence, and fear: Punitive Darwinism in El Salvador.” Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 79, no. 2, 2022, pp. 175–194, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-022-10040-3.

Images

Human Rights Violations in El Salvador

Aleman, Marcos. “Leaked El Salvador Data Confirm Abuses, Human Rights Watch Says.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023, www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-27/rights-group-leaked-el-salvador-data-confirm-abuses. 

Amnesty International. “One Year into El Salvador’s State of Emergency.” Amnesty International, 17 Apr. 2023, www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/04/el-salvador-state-emergency-systematic-human-rights-violations/. 

El Salvador 2022 Human Rights Report - U.S. Department of State, www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/415610_EL-SALVADOR-2022-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf. Accessed 13 Sept. 2023. 

“El Salvador Committing ‘massive’ Rights Violations, Amnesty Says.” Human Rights News | Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, 2 June 2022, www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/el-salvador-committing-massive-rights-violations-amnesty-says. 

“El Salvador State of Emergency.” OHCHR, 28 Mar. 2023, www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2023/03/el-salvador-state-emergency. 

“Life Imitates Art as El Salvador Pressures Book Fair to Bar Dissenting Writer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 11 July 2023, www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/el-salvador-michelle-recinos-barbers-strike-book-guatemala-president-nayib-bukele. 

“Pandemic Must Serve as a Wake-up Call on Human Rights Says SRSG.” UNDRR, 30 June 2021, www.undrr.org/news/pandemic-must-serve-wake-call-human-rights-says-srsg. 

“Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” United Nations, United Nations, www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights. Accessed 13 Sept. 2023.