Human Trafficking in [El Salvador Street Children in [El Salvador] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [El Salvador] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
El Salvador is a source, transit, and destination country
for women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are Salvadoran women and girls
trafficked within the country from rural to urban areas for commercial sexual
exploitation, although some adults and children are trafficked internally for
forced agricultural labor. The majority of foreign victims are women and
children from Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia who travel
to El Salvador in response to job offers, but are subsequently forced into
prostitution or domestic servitude. Some adults and children from neighboring
countries are subject to forced labor in agriculture and apparel
assembly. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/elsalvador/Test-Sonia-Eng.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] About 800 people work there.
There are 8 production lines, with 60 to 63 people in each, plus other
sections. The work shift is
Monday to Friday, beginning at 6:50am. They give us between 12 and 12:55
for lunch, with no other break. Leaving time is 7pm. On Saturdays
we worked from 6:50am to 4pm. Last year in April we began to
work at night. We worked from Monday to Friday 6:50am to 7pm, and from
7:30pm to 10:30pm. On Saturdays we worked from 6:50am until 7pm.
And on Sunday we worked from 6:50am to 5pm. Or, if we weren’t going to
work on Sunday, we would work on Saturday all night until 5:00 on Sunday
morning. The overtime hours, and working on
Sundays, was obligatory. As an inspector, I was required to work all
these hours on my feet. El Salvador: Where are the "disappeared" children ? Thousands of people disappeared in El Salvador during the armed conflict that shattered the country between 1980 and 1991. Hundreds, probably thousands, of them were children. Their families have been looking for them, as experience has shown that many are alive but unaware of their circumstances and identity. Government authorities are not helping. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Although
there were no firm estimates on the extent of trafficking, the country was a
point of origin and destination for international trafficking in women and
children, particularly the harboring of child prostitutes. There was evidence
that the country was a transit point for girls trafficked to According to immigration
authorities, the principal traffickers in the country were employment
agencies, which offered inducements for work in beauty salons, as models, in
gyms, as maids, or in factories. The PNC reported that the most common
methods of obtaining victims were kidnapping, lucrative job offers, and
inducement into prostitution by family, friends, and smugglers. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [63] The Committee is concerned
about the extent of sexual exploitation and trafficking in the State party
and about the lack of effective programs to address this problem. It also
regrets the lack of information on assistance and reintegration programs for
children who have been subject to sexual exploitation and trafficking. Salvadoran child may be victim of human trafficking But what would a small Salvadoran
be doing in Belize unaccompanied? That's the scary question police are now
trying to answer. If you have any information that may assist authorities,
please contact the nearest police station or call 0-800-922-TIPS. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study [scroll down] Last year, Soto enhanced his
criminality by becoming a slaveowner: He told women
(from El Salvador and Honduras)
that they couldn't leave his safe houses until they had "worked
off" the debt they owed for being smuggled into the United States. Soto
meant no such thing. During the day, the women worked as domestics for no
pay. When night fell, the raping began. Children Trade School for Sugar Fields www.elsalvador.org/Embajadas/eeuu/Prensa2.nsf/7e439667d62c191a8525698d006fafcd/1d316e3137fc237b85256eca00734d35?OpenDocument www.amazon.com/Children-trade-school-fields-Salvador/dp/B00082TIE4/ref=sr_1_1/102-3019772-1778564?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179765240&sr=1-1 Twelve-year-old Joel Rivera missed
school all last year after he slashed his leg to the bone with a machete working
in El Salvador sugar fields to help his mother and three siblings survive.
"I've been working since I was 9," Joel said proudly. He is among
an estimated 5,000 to 30,000 children--some as young as 8--trading school for
dangerous work on the nation's sugar plantations. El Salvador:
Where are the "disappeared" children ? Thousands of people disappeared in
El Salvador during the armed conflict that shattered the country between 1980
and 1991. Hundreds, probably thousands, of them were children. Their families
have been looking for them, as experience has shown that many are alive but
unaware of their circumstances and identity. Government authorities are not
helping. U.S. Apparel Companies Hide Starvation Wages Behind Local
Minimum Wage Hoax www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/elsalvador/CKMinimumwage2a.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/elsalvador/Test-Sonia-Eng.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] About 800 people work there.
There are 8 production lines, with 60 to 63 people in each, plus other
sections. The work shift is
Monday to Friday, beginning at 6:50am. They give us between 12 and
12:55 for lunch, with no other break. Leaving time is 7pm. On
Saturdays we worked from 6:50am to 4pm. Last year in April we began to
work at night. We worked from Monday to Friday 6:50am to 7pm, and from
7:30pm to 10:30pm. On Saturdays we worked from 6:50am until 7pm.
And on Sunday we worked from 6:50am to 5pm. Or, if we weren’t going to
work on Sunday, we would work on Saturday all night until 5:00 on Sunday
morning. The overtime hours, and working on
Sundays, was obligatory. As an inspector, I was required to work all
these hours on my feet. Testimony of Maria Eva Nerio
Ponce www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/elsalvador/Test-Eva-Eng.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] At this factory, you are required
to work from 6:40am to 7pm every day, with a small 15-minute break in the
morning, and lunch from 11:45 to 12:40. Saturdays you work until 11am
or until 4pm. When there was work, at times one was obligated to work
until 11pm. They paid us the minimum wage of 538 colones
every two weeks plus production and a small bonus for working overtime.
I usually could earn 950 colones, or at the most,
working many overtime hours, 1,100. All material used herein
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