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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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*** Testimony of Sonia Beatriz Lara Campos The National Labor Committee, October 1999 At one time this article had been archived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 ***
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/report/freedom-world/2009/el-salvador [accessed 26 June 2012] 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
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