At least 25 women have been incarcerated, many facing decades-long sentences, ever since El Salvador made abortion ... a member of the right-wing ARENA party, broke with his party line to ...

The Arena Party ... But Esther Major, Amnesty International's El Salvador expert, describes the country's abortion law as "cruel and discriminatory". "Women and girls end up in prison for being ...

Vasquez is one of several women in El Salvador who have been sentenced to ... the abortion ban dates to the two-decade reign of the conservative Arena party. In 1998, when the country had only ...

In El Salvador women face huge challenges ... That leaves the right-wing ARENA party in the majority, whose policies are extremely conservative. In 2016, one ARENA parliamentarian introduced ...

In El Salvador, women suffered because abortion was illegal ... The Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) right-wing party, made up mostly of traditional career politicians and elites, would ...

Vásquez is now considered one of the leading voices denouncing the condition of women in El Salvador’s prison system. Once a prisoner herself, she witnessed the precarious situation of women in ...

Vásquez was convicted of aggravated homicide and imprisoned for more than 10 years before El Salvador’s Supreme Court commuted her 30-year sentence in 2018. The overcrowded Ilopango women’s ...

They were presidents belonging to either of El Salvador’s major political parties, ARENA and FMLN ... where young men and women had been ripe for recruitment into established gangs in Los ...

The Arena Party ... But Esther Major, Amnesty International's El Salvador expert, describes the country's abortion law as "cruel and discriminatory". "Women and girls end up in prison for being ...