Carol Pier, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's business and human rights program, specializes in labor rights and trade. Pier conducts fact-finding missions to document labor rights violations, prepares reports on those findings, and engages in advocacy on workers' rights and trade issues in the United States and abroad. She has researched and authored reports on workers' rights violations in Latin America, including in Ecuador and El Salvador, and in the US, including at Wal-Mart stores across the country. Pier, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, speaks Spanish.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association (May 1, 2007)

Deliberate Indifference: El Salvador's Failure to Protect Workers' Rights (December 4, 2003)

Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations (April 25, 2002)

Articles

"Wal-Mart is a Poster Child for What is Wrong with Labor Laws," The Huffington Post, May 16, 2007

"A Pact with the Devil," The Baltimore Sun, April 2, 2007

"The Right Way to Trade," The Washington Post, August 1, 2003