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===Human rights=== {{Main|Human rights in El Salvador}} [[Amnesty International]] has drawn attention to several arrests of police officers for unlawful police killings. Other issues to gain Amnesty International's attention include missing children, failure of law enforcement to properly investigate and prosecute crimes against women properly, and rendering [[labor unions|organized labour]] illegal.<ref>{{cite web |title=El Salvador Human Rights |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/el-salvador/page.do?id=1011148 |website=Amnesty International |access-date=17 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429054839/http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/el-salvador/page.do?id=1011148 |archive-date=29 April 2011 }}</ref> Abortion is banned, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or threat to the mother's life; as a result, 180 women have been imprisoned in the last two decades, some for up to 30 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woman who suffered miscarriage sentenced to 30 years for aggravated homicide in El Salvador β The Independent |url=https://apple.news/AELY_WYA9TxubvdEblX4flw |access-date=12 May 2022 |website=apple.news |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513031850/https://apple.news/AELY_WYA9TxubvdEblX4flw |url-status=live }}</ref> Discrimination against [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|LGBT people]] in El Salvador is very widespread.<ref>{{cite news |title=LGBT in El Salvador: Beatings, intolerance, death |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/08/lgbt-el-salvador-beatings-intolerance-death-150805075132892.html |work=Al-Jazeera |date=12 August 2015 |access-date=14 August 2019 |archive-date=14 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814122215/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/08/lgbt-el-salvador-beatings-intolerance-death-150805075132892.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Terrorized at home', Central America's LGBT people to flee for their lives: report |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-lgbt-rights/terrorized-at-home-central-americas-lgbt-people-to-flee-for-their-lives-report-idUSKBN1DR28O |work=Reuters |date=27 November 2017 |access-date=14 August 2019 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426045942/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-lgbt-rights/terrorized-at-home-central-americas-lgbt-people-to-flee-for-their-lives-report-idUSKBN1DR28O |url-status=live }}</ref> According to a 2013 survey by [[Pew Research Center|Pew Research]], 53% of Salvadorans believe that [[homosexuality]] should not be accepted by society.<ref name="pewglobal.org">{{Cite web |title=LGBT Rights in El Salvador |url=https://www.equaldex.com/region/el-salvador |website=equaldex.com}}</ref> Although homosexuality itself is legal, gay marriage is legally not recognized, as proposals were rejected twice in 2006, and once again in 2009.
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