Victimization rates (per 100,000 women) for crimes against women established —without femicides— in the Special Comprehensive Law for a Life Free of Violence for Women, El Salvador. Figure 5. Number of legal assistance to women victims of violence, by type of case attended. Figure 6.

El Salvador is the only country in the world with a law against “femicide suicide” — the crime of driving a woman or girl to suicide by abusing them. The law, enacted in 2012 as part of broader legislation seeking

of gender-based violence in El Salvador. This report focuses on the specifics of sexual violence in El Salvador. The statistical data presented in this document have been obtained through the Reports on Acts of Violence against Women (MJSP, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Below are the main

May 14, 2019 · Sixty-seven percent of Salvadoran women have suffered some form of violence in their lifetime, including sexual assault, intimate partner violence and abuse by family members, a 2017 national...

Jul 16, 2024 · Sexual violence is pervasive in El Salvador, disproportionately affecting women and girls. Between 2019 and 2022, official data show that 22,745 women and girls were victims of sexual violence....

domestic and sexual violence, and femicide ; substantial barriers to sexual and reproductive health services access; trafficking in persons, including forced labor; and crimes involving violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex persons. The government took credible steps to identify and punish officials who may

Sexual violence (art. 9): is any conduct that threatens or violates the right of a woman to voluntarily decide her sexual life, including not only the sexual act but all forms of sexual contact or access, genital or non-genital, with regardless of whether or …

Pervasive sex and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, together known as the “Northern Triangle of Central America” (NTCA), is perpetrated by gangs, narco-trafickers, human trafickers and a machismo culture fueled by corruption and impunity leading to some of the highest rates of SGBV in the world, including femi...

Mar 4, 2018 · While a majority of El Salvador’s homicide victims are young men from poor urban areas, the gangs’ practice of explicitly targeting girls for sexual violence or coerced relationships is well...

In 2018, 5.7% of women aged 15-49 years reported that they had been subject to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months. Also, women and girls aged 15+ spend 20.2% of their time on unpaid …