In a letter addressed to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), along with 16 human rights organizations and victims’ associations in El Salvador, focused on the problem of enforced disappearance of individuals during the armed conflict in that country (1980-1992) and the current disappearances that have occurred in the context of criminality and militarized citizen security policies.

In the letter, we have requested that the United Nations body monitor the implementation of mechanisms created by El Salvador for the immediate search for disappeared persons, follow up on the functioning of the National Commission for the Search for Disappeared Children (CNB) and the National Commission for the Search for Disappeared Adults (CONABÚSQUEDA), and schedule an official visit to the country, to recommend to the State of El Salvador actions to advance in the fulfillment of its duties of prevention, search for the disappeared, and criminal prosecution of this heinous crime.