El Salvador: Rights Violations Against Children in ‘State of Emergency’

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The bedroom of Lucrecia Pérez (pseudonym), then-17, at her aunt's house on December 16, 2023, in a rural town in Sonsonate, El Salvador. Lucrecia was detained for a year and charged with collaborating with a gang. © 2023 Human Rights Watch El Salvador’s state of emergency, declared in March 2022, has led to severe human rights violations against children of low-income communities.Many children have been doubly victimized by gang members who abused them and then by security forces who detained and mistreated them, with possible lifelong consequences.The government…

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