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EL SALVADOR: SOME PROGRESS, BUT STILL LAGS ON CHILD LABOR.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 02-OCT-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1044 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Cutting sugar cane, working in fireworks factories or in the sex industry, and garbage collecting are among the most dangerous jobs in El Salvador. Another is harvesting mollusks in mangrove swamps, a 14-hour-a-day job that earns a worker about US$1.40 a day, from which must be deducted the cost of smoking cigars all day to reduce mosquito and other bug bites and the price of amphetamines to stay awake throughout the seemingly endless workday.

That these jobs even exist is problematic as a labor issue. But what is most acutely problematic is that these are the jobs by which about 30,000 children earn their livelihood in El Salvador. These are the children at highest risk among the 223,000 kids who work for a living. Minister of Labor Jorge Nieto said that 67 of every 100 children in the country work.

The International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor of the International Labor Organization (IPEC-ILO)...

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