Activists warn that these women’s experiences show how dangerously far criminalizing abortion can go.

President Nayib Bukele has expanded his efforts to remake his country to students’ appearance as part of bringing discipline ...

Women in El Salvador's brutal gang culture are forced to act as drug mules, carers for abandoned children, and subjected to violent gang initiations such as rape.

In 2018 El Salvador’s attorney general announced the creation of a new unit to oversee crimes related to violence against women, girls, LGBTQI people and other groups vulnerable to violence.

Thousands of women marched in El Salvador's capital on Sunday against the country's total ban on abortions and its high femicide rate. The country has one of the toughest abortion laws in the world.

There have been 97 femicides reported in El Salvador this year, a country of 6.7 million people, according to government data. There were 130 reported last year.