El Salvador

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Worldwide</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 27, 2006</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Domestic workers face a wide range of grave abuses and labor exploitation, including physical and sexual abuse, forced confinement, non-payment of wages, denial of food and health care and excessive working hours with no rest days.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125171022/http://www.hrw.org/news/2005/09/12/un-summit-barriers-schooling-undermine-goals">U.N. 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The House should reject the accord for falling short on workers' human rights because it does not require countries to protect women workers from discrimination or to have laws that meet international labor standards.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125171022/http://www.hrw.org/news/2004/11/22/el-salvador-investigate-trade-unionist-assassination">El Salvador: Investigate Trade Unionist Assassination</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 22, 2004</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">We write to express deep concern regarding the assassination of trade unionist Gilberto Soto.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125171022/http://www.hrw.org/news/2004/06/09/el-salvador-child-labor-sugar-plantations">El Salvador: Child Labor on Sugar Plantations</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jun 9, 2004</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Businesses purchasing sugar from El Salvador, including The Coca-Cola Company, are using the product of child labor that is both hazardous and widespread, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125171022/http://www.hrw.org/news/2004/01/14/el-salvador-girls-working-domestics-face-abuses">El Salvador: Girls Working as Domestics Face Abuses</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 14, 2004</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Tens of thousands of girls in El Salvador work as domestics, a form of labor that makes them particularly vulnerable to physical abuse and sexual harassment, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125171022/http://www.hrw.org/news/2004/01/14/voices-el-salvador-girl-domestic-workers">Voices of El Salvador Girl Domestic Workers</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 14, 2004</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">“When I was ten, I went to work in the first house. I would wash the dishes, make the beds . . . . I slept there. This was in San Salvador. They didn’t pay me because they left and went to their mother’s house and didn’t give me the address. I worked there for four months without being paid. I worked from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. In the morning I would do the cleaning and then make lunch. I took care of the three-year-old child. 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