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Manuela and Others v. El Salvador

Manuela, a 33-year old woman and mother of two experiencing poverty in rural El Salvador, was charged with aggravated homicide after an obstetric emergency resulting in her pregnancy loss. When Manuela’s father took her to the hospital to address her medical emergency, medical personnel interrogated her for three hours upon arrival, delaying treatment.

Amicus Details How Effective Criminalization of Obstetric Emergencies is Intersectional Gender Discrimination

The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR)/Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), International Women’s Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), and...

Dismantling the myths around restrictive fiscal policies in Latin America

In December 2019, The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) published a briefing entitled “Dismantling the Dogmas of Austerity and Fiscal Injustice in Latin America,” refuting 10 commonly held...

Global conversations to advance ESCR in conflict and post-conflict settings continue

Over the past year, ESCR-Net members have begun a global discussion about how to advance economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) in situations of conflict and occupation and in post-conflict transitions. A first round of online discussions was held between December 2017 and January

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The Democracy Center co-hosts video conference with activists on the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador

The Democracy Center co-hosted the first of two video conferences with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), as part of their efforts to help document successful campaigns against...

El Salvador becomes first country to ban metal mining

El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly voted in March, 2017 to become the first country to ban mining for gold and other metals, and cancel projects in the pipeline. This was a development driven by several NGOs and social movements and...

Movimiento Unificado Francisco Sánchez 1932 (MUFRAS-32)

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El Salvador

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Corporate Accountability

Social Movements & Grassroots Groups

Economic Policy

FESPAD supports litigation against a Canadian mining company, and El Salvador wins

On 14 October 2016, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled in favour of the Government of El Salvador regarding a complaint filed by the Canadian mining company Pacific Rim/...

ESCR-Net urges Members States of the OAS to resolve the severe financial crisis facing the IACHR

On 3 June 2016, the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter to 34 presidents and prime ministers of Member States of the...

The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Costa Rica

On 27 and 28 April 2016, over 20 human rights experts - including individuals, representatives of human rights organizations, and members of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and...