COMADRES |
A woman holds a picture of her son, a union organizer who was disappeared by the police in 1990. |
An organization of women whose family members have been disappeared or killed by government forces or death squads. |
Marta Salmeron speaking at a demonstration in 1990. |
Antonia, one of the original founders of COMADRES. She's been arrested and tortured several times, and several family members have been killed. |
Maria, another of the original COMADRES outside a local COMADRES site. |
A demonstration in front of the Igesia del Rosario on behalf of a group of detained peasants. |
Distributing food at the COMADRES office. |
Children at the COMADRES daycare center. |
This woman, 36 years old, had been detained at the women's prison in llopango for 2 years, allegedly as a supporter of the FMLN. In reality, it was because she refused to become the mistress of an army officer. She died shortly after this picture was taken. |
A delegation from a California church at the COMADRES office, listening to their testimony. |