Leonor Arteaga is a Salvadoran lawyer. She joined DPLF in January 2012, and is currently head of the program Transitional Justice and Fight Against Impunity.
At DPLF, Leonor leads research, legal analysis, and advocacy on transitional justice and State violence in Latin America, including gender-based violence and other international crimes. From 2018 to 2023 she served as Commissioner of the National Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons (CONABÚSQUEDA) in El Salvador.
Prior to joining DPLF, she worked as Deputy Ombudsman for Children and Youth at the Ombudsman’s Office in El Salvador, and worked with human rights organizations and victims’ groups to represent victims of human rights abuses in litigation at the national and international level.
