El Salvador

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• Abduction 11
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• Armed forces / Military 3
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• Assemblies of God 5
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• Bail 1
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• Child labour 21
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• Children's rights 47
• Children-at-risk 28
• Christian 2
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• Conflict resolution 1
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• Convention refugee 3
• Corruption 12
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• Crime prevention 5
• Crimes against humanity 5
• Criminal justice 25
• Death squads 34
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 1
• Denial of refugee status 6
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• Derivative status 1
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• Disappeared persons 34
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 19
• Domestic violence 9
• Drug trafficking 6
• Economic, social and cultural rights 20
• Effective protection 3
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• Election law 1
• Elections 5
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• Extrajudicial executions 25
• Extreme poverty 2
• Family law 1
• Forced labour 21
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 5
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 28
• Freedom of assembly and association 31
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 79
• Freedom of information 33
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 33
• Freedom of speech 35
• Gang related violence 3
• Gender discrimination 26
• Gender mainstreaming 3
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Good governance 3
• Grounds for persecution 4
• HIV and AIDS 6
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• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 11
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 70
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• Impunity 21
• Independence of judiciary 8
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• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 7
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protestant 6
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• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
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• Refugee / Asylum law 4
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• Reintegration 2
• Religious discrimination 17
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 15
• Residence permits / Residency 2
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• Right to a nationality 4
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 8
• Right to family life 2
• Right to health 10
• Right to justice 5
• Right to liberty and security 4
• Right to life 10
• Right to return 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• SGBV 62
• Sale of children 2
• Security forces 13
• Security situation 7
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Seventh Day Adventist 2
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
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• Social group discrimination 13
• Social group persecution 28
• Standard of proof 3
• State protection 8
• Suspensive effect 1
• Terrorism 34
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 45
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• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4
• Visas 3
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• Well-founded fear of persecution 5
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 33
• Women-at-risk 28

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• AlertNet - El Salvador
• Amnesty International - El Salvador
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - El Salvador
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - El Salvador
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Mexico
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - El Salvador
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - El Salvador
• ReliefWeb - El Salvador
• UNHCR - El Salvador
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - El Salvador
• United States Department of State - El Salvador
• World Food Programme (WFP) - El Salvador
• World Health Organization (WHO) - El Salvador