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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/ElSalvador.htm
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. - |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos The National Labor Committee, October 1999 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] 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. Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR 29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people disappeared in
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ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/el-salvador.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61727.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/elsalvador2004.html [accessed 3 February 2011] [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 News5, Channel 5 edition.channel5belize.com/archives/9435 [accessed 29 April 2012] But what would a small Salvadoran
be doing in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7602 [accessed 3 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/americas/el-salvador [accessed 3 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F1483 .B55 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/svtoc.html [accessed 3 February 2011] Traffick Terry Eastland, The Weekly Standard, Feb 11, 2004 www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/718xfsdl.asp [accessed 3 February 2011] [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. Alberto Barrera, Reuters, Caserio
La Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 3 February 2011] Twelve-year-old Joel Rivera missed
school all last year after he slashed his leg to the bone with a machete
working in Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR 29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people disappeared in
U.S. Apparel Companies Hide Starvation Wages Behind Local
Minimum Wage Hoax The National Labor Committee At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos The National Labor Committee, October 1999 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] 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 The National Labor Committee, October 1999 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 September 2011] 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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