Rosa Judith Cisneros

Rosa Judith Cisneros Aguilar (1938-1981) was a Salvadoran lawyer. She was active in the fields of human rights and family planning until her assassination in 1981.

Biography Rosa Judith Cisneros was born in 1938. Her parents were Octavio Cisneros Ambrogi and Rosa del Carmen Aguilar de Cisneros.

In 1971 she presented her doctoral thesis at the University of El Salvador.

Positions held Executive director of the Salvadoran Demographic Association (Asociación Demográfica Salvadoreña), a private organization concerned with family planning. Legal director of CREDHO, an Episcopal programme designed to assist the rural poor through agricultural cooperatives and legal help.

On the morning of 18 August 1981, Rosa Judith Cisneros was leaving her house in a northern suburb of San Salvador when a carload of men halted her and dragged her to their car. An eyewitness reportedly saw her shot at close range with a submachine gun. The men did not identify themselves, nor did any group take responsibility for the killing. Child Health in a Changing World (La salud del niño en un mundo cambiante) (1978), Asociación Demográfica Salvadoreña Family Planning Communications and Contraceptive Use in Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama (co-author) (1982), Studies in Family Planning Vol. 13, No. 6/7 (Jun - Jul 1982), pp. 190–199, publ. Population Council

Recognition Rosa Judith Cisneros received the John Nevin Sayre award of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship posthumously in 1985.

Her name has been bestowed upon an Episcopal parish and upon the Our Little Roses mission for abused and abandoned girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.