Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/2001/9/Add.1, January 17, 2001: El Salvador
175. The Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal to the Government of El Salvador on 3 December 2000 expressing her outrage at continued reports of killings of gay men and transvestites in El Salvador. The Special Rapporteur was informed that a transvestite...Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/2001/9, January 11, 2001
IV. Violations of the right to life of special groups […] F. Violations of the right to life of members of sexual minorities 48. The Special Rapporteur has continued to receive serious reports of persons having been subjected to death threats or extrajudicially killed...
ICJ and Fordham University commemorate El Salvador murders
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