El Salvador

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  IJM El Salvador Fosters Collaboration with Shelter Helps and the Prosecutor’s Office to Empower Victims of Violence

  IJM El Salvador partnered with Shelter Helps, a development organization working in the field of housing for people living in poverty and the Prosecutor´s Office of the region of San Vicente to share resources and best practices for accessing and interacting with the public justice system. This initiative aimed to equip Shelter Helps with the necessary knowledge to provide comprehensive support to victims of violence.

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  IJM Implementing Partner Achieves 1st Conviction in El Salvador

  After eleven months of hearings and against all odds the Salvadoran Association for Rural Health (ASAPROSAR), IJM’s implementing partner, achieved its first conviction. The court ruled in favour of two young sisters and sentenced the aggressor to 26 years for the crime of sexual assault - the maximum sentence possible by local laws.