Study: Thousands of Haitan Children Work as Slaves
source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/24/haiti.child.slaves/index.html
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As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.
The existence of these arrangements are not new, but the scope is larger than previously thought, a new study by the Pan American Development Foundation found. The foundation conducted the largest field survey of human rights violations in Haiti.
Known as restaveks, these extremely poor children are sent by their families to other homes.
"In principle, parental placement of a restavek child involves turning over child-rearing responsibility to another household in exchange for the child's unpaid domestic service," the study says.
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The study's aim was to answer the question: "What is the scale of the victimization?"
What researchers found was that 22 percent of children surveyed were living away from home, and that 30 percent of households had restavek children.
Using census projections for 2010, the study extrapolated that as many as 225,000 children in Haiti's urban areas could be living as restaveks.
The existence of these arrangements are not new, but the scope is larger than previously thought, a new study by the Pan American Development Foundation found. The foundation conducted the largest field survey of human rights violations in Haiti.
Known as restaveks, these extremely poor children are sent by their families to other homes.
"In principle, parental placement of a restavek child involves turning over child-rearing responsibility to another household in exchange for the child's unpaid domestic service," the study says.
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The study's aim was to answer the question: "What is the scale of the victimization?"
What researchers found was that 22 percent of children surveyed were living away from home, and that 30 percent of households had restavek children.
Using census projections for 2010, the study extrapolated that as many as 225,000 children in Haiti's urban areas could be living as restaveks.
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versasrev
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It is sad that the voiceless minority is never really heard.
- 2 years ago
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versasrev
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Willowguy
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The crime is that we are aware of it and do nothing about the energy and environmental poverty cultivating it. This, the aftermath of the rape of the "Jewel of the Caribbean" is the most egregious of human acts, an atrocity, second only to the American bombing of Afghanistan, the poorest nation in the world. Unfortunately the statistics would prove that the children of Appalachia often live in poverty servitude, in a region stripped of its dignity, and are often raised by another family. I think here they call it foster care.
- 2 years ago
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Willowguy
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keithponder
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This is an International crime.
- 2 years ago
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keithponder
