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2005
DR-CAFTA
Falls Short on Workers’ Rights
July 27, 2005 - (Human Rights Watch) At a port that supplies
U.S. consumers with clothes and other imports from El Salvador,
a group of forty-one dockworkers signed up in December to form a
union. When the employer found out, it fired thirty-four of them.
Unlike in the United States, these workers have no right to their
jobs back under Salvadoran law for anti-union firings.
Trabajadoras
del sexo en evento regional
June 24, 2005 – (La Prensa) Unas
ochenta trabajadoras del sexo de Centroamérica se reunieron
ayer en la capital salvadoreña para intercambiar experiencias
de organización y exigir que se les respeten sus derechos
humanos.
Changing
the Legacy of Violence in El Salvador
May 2005 - (Oxfam America) Despite a hostile
post-conflict environment, women are demanding changes and defending
their rights. El Salvador's sustained climate of violence is taking
its toll on the nation's women. The majority of violent crime victims
are women.
2004
EL
SALVADOR: GIRLS WORKING AS DOMESTICS FACE ABUSES
January 15, 2004 – (HRW) 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.
2003
DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE, ORIGINS OF GANGS IN EL SALVADOR (Text in Spanish)
October 20, 2003 - (LA OPINION) 8 out of 10 young sailors have been
victims or have witnessed domestic violence, stated experts of PNUD
and UCA. "Estela", a 40 year-old woman, has been victim
of domestic violence for more than two decades.
EL
SALVADOR: WOMEN REPAIR LOCAL ROADS (Text in Spanish)
October 7, 2003 - (EL SALVADOR.COM) Domitila Hernandez, 68 years
old, repair the local roads of San Sebastián Salitrillo.
For her, this job is the only way to make a living.
YOUNG
WOMEN TARGETED IN EL SALVADOR
July 5, 2003 - (UPI) Police in El Salvador have found the decapitated
heads of two young women that were left just a few yards from a
police station.
EMPOWERED
WOMEN OF THE "MICRO CONCRETE TILES WORKSHOPS"
March 2003 -(REDMUJERES) "We are women who have changed our
way of living. With lots of effort, overcoming our fear of leaving
the house, we've shown ourselves and everyone else that we are capable
of achieving what we propose..." (Rosa Icela Arias, Taller
la Tejita, San Rafael Cedros, Cuscatlán). On January 13,
2001 an earthquake of considerable magnitude was felt in El Salvador,
causing serious damage, mainly to houses in the poorest sectors.
The reconstruction process was started immediately, demanding the
participation of the institutions that work for social development.
Another earthquake occurred a month later, increasing the destruction
and doubling the need for participation.
FORMER
SALVADORAN GUERRILLA GIRL FINDS A DIFFERENT ROLE
March 15, 2003 - (CNN) Twenty-three years ago she was a poster girl
for the leftist guerrillas fighting a U.S.-backed government --
a young woman, her right arm raised, wielding a rifle -- in an inspiring
picture that became widely known in El Salvador and abroad.
2002
MCC-
SUPPORTED TRIP CONNECTS SALVADORAN WOMEN
December 2, 2002 - (Mennonite Central Committee - MCC) For women
in rural El Salvador, nearly every minute of the day is filled with
homemaking tasks: cooking and grinding corn, patting out tortillas,
washing, hauling water and firewood and caring for children. But
this fall a group of 17 women from 11 communities in northern Morazán
state took a two-day break from their routine to visit and share
ideas and stories with women's groups in other parts of the country.
2001
SEVERE
ABORTION LAW IN EL SALVADOR PERSECUTES WOMEN
November 30, 2001 - (Centre for Reproductive Rights) The article
briefly discusses the negative impact of El Salvador's abortion
law on women, one of the strictest in the world.
2000
AFTER
TEN YEARS OF WAR- A DECADE TO OVERCOME VIOLENCE? AN ECUMENICAL VISIT
TO EL SALVADOR
June 9, 2000 - (World Council of Churches - WCC) On this particular
Sunday 19 March, the mood is festive in San Salvador's Cathedral
plaza. People stroll about examining the portraits of Monseñor
Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the city's beloved archbishop, cut down by
an assassin's bullet on 24 March 1980.
CATHOLIC
CHURCH CANCELS ABORTION RIGHTS
Spring 2000 – (Women’s International News Network - WINN)
The Catholic Church in El Salvador has been actively engaged in
manipulative tactics to sway an already conservative legislature
into passing the extreme laws. The Church bussed Catholic schoolchildren
to the capitol to stage anti-choice demonstrations and by confronting
thousands of churchgoers after Mass to solicit their signatures
on anti-choice petitions. This effort to convince legislators that
it is the will of the El Salvadoran people, and not just the Church's
agenda.
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