El Salvador

One of the earliest large-scale human rights information projects was the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission, also known as Comision de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador (CDHES). Over 9,000 testimonies were taken in an effort to understand the nature and scope of the bloody conflict between the army and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). This complex database linked human rights violations with the career structures of individual military officers to create a statistical profile of each officer's actions throughout his career. The resulting data was instrumental in aiding the Commissions work to remove members of the Salvadoran military who were the worst human rights abusers.

While at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Patrick Ball's innovative work in database design and statistical analysis led the way to discovering the truth about the conflict and purging the military of those deemed the most egregious in their abuses.

http://shr.aaas.org/hrdag/project-28.php

Originally based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), HRDAG has provided technical assistance in the following countries:

Africa

• Chad
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa

Asia

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Timor-Leste
• Sri Lanka

Europe

• Kosovo

Middle East

• Iran

Central America and Caribbean

• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• México

South America

• Colombia
• Perú

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