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Scope and Magnitude: Haitian labor laws
require employers to pay domestic workers over the age of 15, so many host
families dismiss restaveks before they reach that
age. Dismissed and runaway restaveks make up a significant
proportion of the large population of street children, who frequently are
forced to work in prostitution or street crime by violent criminal
gangs. - CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Haiti. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – HAITI
– It has been reported that child sex tourism continues to be a problem in
Port au Prince with boys being the main victims of American and European
‘clients’. Street children are also sexually exploited by members of the
Haitian elite. Psst! Buy Yourself A
Haitian Slave-Child For A Hundred Bucks Gary Younge, the
Guardian, reporting from the Dominican Republic, 2005-09-28 www.haitipolicy.org/content/3249.htm?PHPSESSID= [accessed 8 February 2011] On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border, you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from 60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for the equivalent of £54.22. There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. - htcp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/haiti.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 Haitian children are
trafficked annually to the Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61731.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] According to the NGO Haitian Coalition for the Defense of the Rights of
the Child, children worked primarily as restaveks;
however, some worked on the street as vendors or beggars, and some were
involved in prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/haiti2003.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [42] The Committee is
concerned at the high incidence of violence against and abuse of children
within the family environment, including sexual abuse and neglect of
children, and that insufficient efforts have been made to protect children.
The Committee is particularly concerned at the very high rate of sexual abuse
of girls (more than one third of women were sexually abused before the age of
15 years). In addition, the Committee is concerned at the lack of statistical
data and a comprehensive plan of action, and the insufficient
infrastructures. [65] The Committee
notes that the State party has signed but not ratified the two Optional
Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of
children in armed conflict. 32nd Session of the Committee on the Rights
of the Child (CRC) 2003 Report [RTF] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Report: 13 January – 7 February 2003 [accessed 22 May 2011] II.
COUNTRY REVIEWS - [3] Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – HAITI
– It has been reported that child sex tourism continues to be a problem in
Port au Prince with boys being the main victims of American and European
‘clients’. Street children are also sexually exploited by members of the
Haitian elite. 30,000 Haitian
children smuggled annually english.peopledaily.com.cn/200511/08/eng20051108_219788.html [accessed 8 February 2011] Around 30,000
Haitian children are illegally smuggled into the Psst! Buy Yourself A
Haitian Slave-Child For A Hundred Bucks Gary Younge, the
Guardian, reporting from the Dominican Republic, 2005-09-28 www.haitipolicy.org/content/3249.htm?PHPSESSID= [accessed 8 February 2011] On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border, you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from 60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for the equivalent of £54.22. There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. - htcp Relationship Between Child Domestic
Servitude & The Sexual Exploitation Of Children Anti-Slavery International, 2002 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 May 2011] LINKS
BETWEEN CHILD DOMESTIC WORK AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION - In Conflict Profile: Canadian Consortium on Human Security CCHS At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 May 2011] [5]
ANALYSIS
- A Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Persons, Especially Women and
Children by the Protection Project of the John Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies notes that #666: restavek : Russell comments Anne Russell, 8 Oct 1999 www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/msg00780.html [accessed 22 May 2011] The video focused
on child prostitution and the growth of AIDS in this population, but the
links between how restaveks are treated, why they
run away from their "adopted families", why they end up on the
streets, why they take on prostitution, and why they catch AIDS is
clear. And very, very sad. All
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