Year: 2022
Year: 2022
Year: 2022
Year: 2022
Year: 2020
No
The age of sexual consent is 15 years for both girls and boys. The national legislation does not provide for a close-in-age exemption.
Analysis of country legislation on age of sexual consent, 2024
Partial
Active extraterritoriality is provided for all crimes and universal extraterritoriality is provided for international crimes that constitute gross human rights violations. Extraterritoriality is also provided for crimes committed through ICT’s if the ICT used is located in Salvadorian territory. Double criminality is not required.
No detailed information is provided with regards to extradition for SEC-related offences or to the applicability of the double criminality principle in extradition cases.
SECTT Legal Checklist El Salvador, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
No
There are no mandatory legal provisions for criminal background checks.
However, convicted sex offenders are prohibited from holding positions in both public and private settings involving or facilitating contact with children.
The sex offender registry is accessible to any interested organization or individual.
SECTT Legal Checklist El Salvador, 2020
Partial
El Salvador has ratified the CRC, the OPSC, the OPIC, the Trafficking Protocol and the ILO Convention No. 182.
El Salvador has not ratified the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics nor the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote and Budapest Conventions.
SECTT Legal Checklist El Salvador, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
Not Yet Assessed
No
There are no child protection standards for the travel and tourism industry in place.
SECTT Legal Checklist El Salvador, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
