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Document Source: Center for Black Studies Research
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, analysis, psychology, report, servitude
Probably the largest group of child workers in the world are. child domestic workers( CDW). The International Labour Organisation( ILO) estimates that there are 250 million child workers in the developing world, and that domestic work is the largest worldwide employment category of girls under the age of sixteen( ILO 1998). However, the proportion of …
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Moving Children in Haiti: Some Hypotheses on Kinship, Labor, and Personhood in the Haitian Context
Document Source: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, cause, culture, statistics
AFTER 200 YEARS OF BEES, LET’S HAVE 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government at the end of 2003 to celebrate the impending bicentennial of independence and freedom from slavery. But with no honey in sight, there wasn’t much to celebrate, as antigovernment violence coupled with a dismal economy …
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Document Source: Rose-Marie Chierici
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: abuse, analysis, cause, statistics
2003 Alyans Sante Borgne’s (ASB) conducted the irst week-long mobile hospital in Molas, a poor mountain community a 10-h walk from the main hospital in the town of Borgne in North Haiti. ASB is a partnership between Haiti Outreach—Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.), a US-based NGO, and Haiti’s Ministry of Health. The paper relects on this irst …
There are several characteristics that are usually commonly found in a “restavec”. The child will be a girl.4 She will be about nine years old and possibly younger. In addition, she will have been born into extreme poverty and she will be a black, dark-skinned child. Also, it is almost certain that she will have …
2000 – Haiti Restavec slave children Difficult choices difficult lives Lespwa fe Viv Read More »
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