El Salvador: Fix Flawed Transitional Justice Bill

Expand Women carry a banner of photos of missing persons on a day dedicated to the children who went missing during El Salvador's armed conflict in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday March 29 , 2011. © 2011 AP Photo/Luis Romero (New York) – The Salvadoran Congress should comply with a May 28, 2019, Inter-American Court of Human Rights order to suspend consideration of a “transitional justice” bill, Human Rights Watch said today. The deeply flawed bill would deny meaningful accountability to thousands of victims of grave crimes and should be promptly amended. The proposed legislation would…

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