Violence against women persists in El Salvador

San Salvador, January 4 (Prensa Latina) More than twenty women, adolescents, and girls were victims of sexual violence daily in El Salvador, according to a report by the Salvadoran Women's Organization for Peace (ORMUSA).

January 4, 2026
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The organization released statistics for 2024 and 2025, of which the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported 18,949 cases of gender-based violence, 8,938 of which involved sexual assault.

VORMUSA stated that this figure shows the magnitude of the violence women face in a society where femicides (82 in this period) are among the highest in the Americas.

The ORMUSA report also stated that physical and psychological violence are prevalent in cases of abuse against women, with 2,339 and 7,062 cases, respectively.

Despite the reduction compared to the previous period, the data confirms that sexual violence is the most persistent and widespread form of gender-based violence in El Salvador, the organization pointed out.

Ormusa concluded that the data confirms that sexual violence is a structural, persistent, and priority problem that requires a firm and coordinated commitment from the various state institutions and society.

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