El Salvador:
Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador

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1. SUMMARY
   
   
2. RECOMMENDATIONS
   
   Principal Recommendations
   Additional Recommendations
   
   To the Legislative Assembly
   To the Ministry of Labor
   To the Ministry of Education
   To the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman
   To the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Organization
   To the United Nations Children’s Fund
   To Donor Countries
   To the United States Department of State
   To the United States Department of Labor
   
   
3. DOMESTIC WORK
   
   Age
   Types of Work
   Hours of Work
   Wages
   Physical and Psychological Abuse
   
   
4. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD LABOR AND EDUCATION
   
   The Effect of Work on Education
   Working in Order to Attend School
   
   
5. THE RESPONSE OF THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
   
   Salvadoran Law
   Enforcement
   The International Community
   
   
6. CHILD LABOR UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
   
   The International Prohibition on Harmful or Hazardous Child Labor
   Minimum Age for Employment
   The Right to Education
   
   
   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
   

January 2004      Vol. 16, No. 1(B)