• ILO: Adopt New Treaty to Combat Child Labor
    Press release
    Jun 9, 2011
    Governments, trade unions, and employers' organizations should combat child labor by adopting a new international treaty on the rights of domestic workers.
  • El Salvador: Investigate Killing of Community Leader
    Press release
    Aug 8, 2009
    El Salvador's attorney general should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of the murder of the community leader and environmental advocate Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, as well as subsequent threats against journalists and human rights defenders.
  • El Salvador: Terrorism Law Misused Against Protesters
    Press release
    Jul 30, 2007
    The government of El Salvador should dismiss terrorism charges brought against protesters who allegedly blocked roads and threw stones at a July 2 demonstration, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Domestic Workers Abused Worldwide
    Press release
    Jul 27, 2006
    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.
  • U.N. Summit: Barriers to Schooling Undermine Goals
    Press release
    Sep 12, 2005
    Children around the world face systematic barriers to schooling that are undermining global progress towards universal primary education.
  • DR-CAFTA Falls Short on Workers’ Rights
    Commentary
    Jul 26, 2005
    The U.S. House of Representatives will likely vote before the end of this week on the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). 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.
  • El Salvador: Investigate Trade Unionist Assassination
    Letter
    Nov 22, 2004
    We write to express deep concern regarding the assassination of trade unionist Gilberto Soto.
  • El Salvador: Child Labor on Sugar Plantations
    Press release
    Jun 9, 2004
    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.
  • El Salvador: Girls Working as Domestics Face Abuses
    Press release
    Jan 14, 2004
    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.
  • Voices of El Salvador Girl Domestic Workers
    Testimony
    Jan 14, 2004
    “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. I would cook [and] wash clothes.”