"Girls recruited into domestic work in Guinea often live in conditions akin to slavery, and many are victims of trafficking," said Juliane Kippenberg, a children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and the author of the report. "The new government urgently needs to take concrete measures to protect girl domestic workers."

Mexican officials actively prevent rape victims from gaining access to legal and safe abortion, and they fail to punish rape and sexual violence inside and outside the family, said Human Rights Watch in a report released today.