Streaking down the front of a curving wave, a girl balances fleetingly before tumbling — she is one of dozens of poor children in El Salvador getting a chance to surf their way out of poverty. El ...

As is typical for women in El Salvador, Beatriz's daughters work in a textile plant sewing garments for international corporations. They work 48-hour weeks and make about $300 per month (roughly ...

El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have declined significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, ...

Child mortality – the number of boys and girls who die before their fifth birthday – has been reduced by almost half since 2000. However, rural poverty and high rates of violence and homicide are ...

Child marriage puts girls at greater risk of domestic and sexual violence and keeps them in poverty, the study said. In El Salvador, a girl can get married under 18 with a parent's permission if ...

Nearly two in every five pregnancies among girls in El Salvador aged 10 to 12 are the result of rape and incest but the rapists nearly always go unpunished, a U.N. agency has said.

Poverty clings tightly in the United States.But when most of a country struggles with poverty such as in the developing parts of the world, the people look to faith and to each other for ...

“Drug trafficking and gang culture have increased violence,” Melida Guevara told me. She’s a program manager for Oxfam in El Salvador and has been fighting for better respect for women’s (and girls’) ...

According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 52,000 children have crossed the Texas border illegally since October; most of them coming to escape danger and poverty in Central America. There ...

Inside El Salvador’s battle with violence, poverty, and U.S. policy. As migrants flee the decimated Central American nation, changes in the United States could send thousands back into the chaos.

In a community health centre on the main road that connects El Salvador with Honduras, 11 girls aged 17 to 20 find the space to talk about their needs and doubts.

Child marriage puts girls at greater risk of domestic and sexual violence and keeps them in poverty, the study said. In El Salvador, a girl can get married under 18 with a parent's permission if ...