HER DAY: Malala Yousafzai, an education activist shot by the Taliban, speaks at the UN yesterday. UNITED NATIONS — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday yesterday by demanding in her first public speech since the attack that world leaders provide free compulsory schooling […]
Circolo dei lettori di Novara (Broletto)Presentazione delle immagini di Stefano Airaghiper Ayiti Now CorpRaccolta Fondi Giovedì 24 marzo 2016 – ore 18 Mostra fotografica25 marzo-10 aprile 2016Caffè del Broletto
For the most part, restavèk are found in middle to lower middle class homes, as well as the poorest slums of Port-au-Prince. The lack of local water infrastructure and overall lack of public services such as electricity in poor neighborhoods creates high demand for domestic workers to fetch water each day, and provide other
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Restavek System This Restavek system started out with poor families placing their children in the houses of wealthier urban families, often relatives, to gain access to education and other social services. However, it has deteriorated into a system of slavery in which poor children are trafficked to serve as unpaid domestic laborers in poor urban
Human rights violations in Haiti mounted in 1994 as the military regime increasingly turned to terror tactics in its effort to eliminate all vestiges of support for elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. During the first half of the year, as international efforts to restore democracy foundered, the army joined forces with paramilitary thugs in a
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