February 26, 2016
Categories: Restavek
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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 […]
February 26, 2016
Categories: History, Human Rights, United States
Tags: Aristide, constant, FRAPH, human rights, terror
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 […]
February 25, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: law, parents, Restavek, schools
The #biological #parents are #promised that their #child will be treated #well and sent to #school; #unfortunately, in the #overwhelming #majority of #cases these are #false promises. #Restavèk #children instead live a #life of #hardship and #work. These #children, #constantly occupied with #work, seldom, if ever, attend school. This #denial of the #right to #education […]
February 23, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: human rights, law
In accordance with these international conventions, Article 335 of the Haitian labor code prohibits the employment of minors below the age of fifteen. Furthermore, an Act passed in June 2003 specifically outlawed the placement of children into restavèk service and the abuse and maltreatment of children generally. Haiti is party to the Universal […]
February 23, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: child labor
The term restavèk comes from the French and Creole meaning “to stay with.” Restavèks are generally children of poor rural families who are sent to stay with and work as unpaid domestic servants for less poor, urban families. Parents send a child away with the hope that in return for the child’s labor, the host […]