Posibilidades Normativas para la Creación y el Funcionamiento de una Comision Internacional Contra la Impunidad en El Salvador (CICIES) (Regulatory Possibilities for the Creation and Operation of an International Commission Against Impunity in El Salvador (CICIES))

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel E. Escalante Saracais
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
International Commission ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals Integrating Risk Reduction, Urban Planning and Housing: Lessons From El Salvador

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Christine Wamsler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
National Level ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
Emergency Relief ◽  
Developmental Context ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Increasingly, attention has been given to the need to mainstream risk reduction in development work in order to reduce the vulnerability of the urban poor. Using El Salvador as a case study, the paper analyses the mainstreaming process in the developmental disciplines of urban planning and housing. The overall aim is to identify how the existing separation between risk reduction, urban planning and housing can be overcome and integration achieved. Since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and especially after the 2001 earthquakes, not only relief and development organisations, but also social housing organisations have initiated a shift to include risk reduction in their fields of action in order to address the underlying causes of urban vulnerability. The factors that triggered the process were: 1) the negative experiences of organisations with non-integral projects, 2) the organisations' increased emphasis on working with municipal development, 3) political changes at national level, and more importantly, 4) the introduction and promotion of the concept of risk reduction by international and regional aid organisations. However, required additional knowledge and institutional capacities were mainly built up independently and internally by each organisation, and not through the creation of co-operative partnerships, thus duplicating efforts and increasing ineffective competition. Whilst positive experience has been gained through the implementation of more integral projects, the creation of adequate operational, organisational, institutional and legal frameworks is still in its initial stage. Unfortunately, four years after the 2001 earthquakes, emergency relief funding for post-disaster risk reduction is coming to an end without the allocation of resources for following up and consolidating the initial process. Based on the findings, an integral model is proposed which shows how mainstreaming risk reduction in urban planning and housing could be dealt with in such a way that it becomes more integrated, inclusive and sustainable within a developmental context.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Laurie S. Wiseberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Commission ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
African Commission

In an article I wrote in the pages of this journal in 1976, I expressed considerable scepticism about the prospect of African governments drafting a human rights convention for Africa or establishing a regional human rights body similar to the European and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights. Even though there had been calls for the creation of such a human rights mechanism as early as 1961, at the Lagos Conference on the Rule of Law, organized by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), I thought that the time did not yet “seem propitious for such a move.”

El Salvador crime and corruption gains to help Bukele

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
American States ◽  
The Creation

Subject Bukele successes. Significance Presdent Nayib Bukele this month announced the creation of a new anti-corruption body, backed by the Organization of American States (OAS). Just days earlier the president highlighted improvements in the country’s murder rates, which he linked to the implementation of his new security initiative. Impacts The CICIES may prompt donors such as the United States, which condition funding on anti-corruption progress, to release some aid. The CICIES launch will compound anger in Guatemala, where the closure of the CICIG has proven deeply unpopular with the public. Improved security may reap economic benefits, but only if investors believe the downward trend is established.

How to Read Equipo Maíz

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (141) ◽  
pp. 176-202
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Cuéllar
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Central American ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Political Cartooning

Abstract This article examines the work of the popular education collective Equipo Maíz headquartered in El Salvador. Equipo Maíz is noteworthy for its contributions to the analysis of Salvadoran and Central American politics, economics, and society since its formation in the early 1980s. This article situates the Equipo Maíz project, which uses plainspoken text paired with political cartooning, within a deep historical memory of opposition geared at demystifying the fictions that sustain capitalist sociality and its class antagonisms. Drawing on examples from Equipo Maíz’s weekly newsletter La página de Maíz and other select publications, the article demonstrates how the collective addresses a variably literate Salvadoran readership with the goal of imparting radical interpretative strategies geared toward the creation of an engaged political culture, despite the challenges of a closed media system.

scholarly journals Refugees from Suriname

Refuge ◽  
1984 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Background Information ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Special Commission ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Military

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington published a brief report on the situation of human rights in Suriname in October 1983 following a visit of a special commission in June of that year. The report questions the government's expressed intention to allow for the expression of popular will or to permit freedom in the media. The Commission concluded that serious violations of important human rights occurred. The International Commission of Jurists in Geneva also published a report entitled "Human Rights in Suriname" which concluded that "the chain of events since 1980 demonstrates an escalation in the military authority's disregard for the rule of law, which is set aside whenever they consider it necessary for the consolidation of their position. " This characteristic report provides background information to the creation of refugees from Suriname in the Netherlands.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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