Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports

El Salvador

Baked Goods
Baked Goods
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Cattle
Cattle
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Cereal Grains
Cereal Grains
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Coffee
Coffee
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Fireworks
Fireworks
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Shellfish
Shellfish
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane
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El Salvador
2021 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor:

Moderate Advancement

In 2021, El Salvador made moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The Ministry of Education invested over $53 million to purchase computers that benefited 120,092 students and 12,000 teachers in the country. The government signed a cooperation agreement with the governments of Honduras and Guatemala to strengthen coordination and efforts to address trafficking in persons. The government also published results from its annual multipurpose household survey, which identifies child labor prevalence in the country. However, children in El Salvador are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation and in illicit activities, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Children also perform dangerous tasks in the harvesting of coffee. Law enforcement agencies continue to lack sufficient resources to enforce child labor laws throughout the country. Gaps also remain related to the lack of publicly available, comprehensive information on its labor and criminal law enforcement efforts. Finally, social programs do not adequately address the full scope of the child labor problem in the country.

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