Press Release Aug 18, 2026 HRF and Perseus Strategies Petition UN on behalf of El Salvador Lawyers Ruth López and Enrique Anaya NEW YORK (Aug. 18, 2026) — Last week, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and Perseus Strategies submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Salvadoran lawyers Ruth López and Enrique Anaya, urging the body to declare their detention arbitrary and in violation of international law.
Human Rights Dispatch May 11, 2026 Authoritarians Target Lawyers Worldwide, Suspicious Death of Rwandan Dissident Aimable Karasira, El Salvador Freezes El Faro Assets, and more. The detained individuals listed in US Senate Resolution 677 and House Resolution 1259 aren’t just names on paper — they are real people with families, lives, and loved ones.
Newsletter Jun 19, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #77 We begin this week in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele’s ruling party officially passed a sweeping “foreign agents” law.
