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Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
The Museum of Words and Images (MUPI) is dedicated to investigate, rescue, preserve, and show the public aspects of the culture and history of El Salvador.
http://www.museo.com.sv

Equipo Maíz

Equipo Maiz is a non-profit organization that began in 1983 and educates about issues affecting all Salvadorans through popular education and publications accessible to many communities. It also runs several projects on historical memory.
http://www.equipomaiz.org.sv/

Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la UCA
From the onset of its foundation, IDHUCA's main objective has been to promote the defense of human rights through governmental agencies, in behalf of people and organizations that seek justice.
http://www.uca.edu.sv/publica/idhuca/

Pro-Búsqueda: Identidad, Justicia, y Memoria

Pro-Búsqueda is an association of Salvadoran families that have suffered—and in many cases still suffer—the forced disappearance of their children due the civil war in El Salvador.
http://www.probusqueda.org/

Museo de Santa Tecla
Dedicated to the political prisoners of Santa Tecla during the 80s war, this report by elfaro.net is a great multimedia presentation of testimonies and photos of the museum's construccion.
http://www.elfaro.net/secciones/especiales/templo_sonador/index.html

From Madness to Hope: The 12-year war in El Salvador

Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador
http://www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/el_salvador/tc_es_03151993_toc.html

From Madness to Hope

Illustrated version in PDF format, published by CIDEP
http://www.memoriaypaz.net/documents/comision_dela_verdad.pdf

15 Years of the Peace Accords
Testimonies of Photographers published by La Prensa Gráfica.
http://www.laprensagrafica.net/dominical/paz04b.asp

Suffolk University's Moakley Oral History Project
The Moakley Archive Oral History project seeks to document and preserve valuable information and observations that may not be a part of the paper, photographic, and audiovisual portions of the Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers.
http://www.suffolk.edu/archive/18020.html#anchor28303

The Truth about El Mozote

By Mark Danner
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Danner/1993/truthelmoz01.html

SHARE Foundation
SHARE supports the empowerment of historically impoverished and marginalized communities, as they strive to meet both their most immediate needs and construct long-term sustainable solutions to the problems of poverty, underdevelopment and social injustice.
http://www.share-elsalvador.org/

Sister Cities Project
The U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities Network is a grassroots organization of U.S. citizens and residents who have ongoing partnerships with small rural communities in El Salvador. Those partnerships began in 1986 as a citizen-based response to the U.S. intervention in El Salvador’s civil war.
http://www.us-elsalvador-sisters.org/

The Refuge Media Project
Created by filmmakers, health educators, and human rights activists concerned about refugees and victims of torture, the Refuge Media Project is producing a half-hour documentary on immigrant torture survivors in the United States, and on some of the individuals and organizations who are working to help survivors deal with their traumatic pasts, and with the sometimes traumatic experience of coming to America.
http://www.refugemediaproject.org

Voice on the Border: Selected Articles

http://www.votb.org/elsalvador/articles.html

Enemies of War: PBS Special

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/enemiesofwar/


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