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August 2: Political, legal, and human rights crises in El Salvador – Online and in-person planning meeting
Please join us for a conversation on Friday, August 2 at 1 pm PT (4 pm ET) with Ivania Cruz, an attorney and human rights defender from El Salvador. Ivania works with the Human and Community Rights Project (Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios, UNIDEHC), which represents communities confronting illegal displacement and victims of political persecution […]
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National Lawyers Guild Observers Find Salvadoran Elections to be Free and Fair
Contact: Mark Sullivan, msullivanlegal@gmail.com A delegation from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) sent to El Salvador to observe the 2015 national congressional and municipal elections, has concluded that, so far, the process has remained fair and open, and that all parties appear to be following the new election laws, despite efforts by the country’s Supreme […]
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National Lawyers Guild Observers Praise the Salvadoran Election Process
A group from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) traveled to El Salvador to observe the second round of the presidential elections and to understand the context in which the elections took place. NLG delegates met with civic and social movement leaders, the electoral authority and United States Embassy personnel, and toured the facilities of several […]
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National Lawyers Guild Delegation Observes Changes in the Electoral Process in El Salvador
The National Lawyers Guild (“NLG”) is an association of attorneys, law students, and legal workers that has worked to defend human rights since its founding seventy-five years ago as an alternative to the then racially discriminatory American Bar Association. The NLG has previously sent official observers to elections in Asia, Europe, and throughout the Americas. […]
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NLG Delegation Observes Election of FMLN: Preliminary Report
El Salvador, the smallest and most densely populated Central American country with the most extreme disparity of wealth and poverty, has turned a new page. For the first time in its history, a party dedicated to structural improvement of the lives of the majority poor has come to power with the historic March 15, 2009 […]
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Presidential Election Monitoring Delegation to El Salvador Voices Pre-Election Concerns
San Salvador, El Salvador – A delegation of twenty lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild* arrived March 10 in El Salvador to begin serving as accredited international observers in the presidential election taking place this Sunday, March 15, 2009. As observers of the electoral process in the United States we have seen incidences of fraud […]
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