Human Trafficking in [Haiti] [other countries]Street Children in [Haiti] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Haiti |
Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the first ten years of
the 21st Century - 2000 to 2009
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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 *** ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[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. Haitian Children Sold as Slave Laborers and Prostitutes www.gnn.tv/headlines/5161/Haitian_Children_Sold_as_Slave_Laborers_and_Prostitutes At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 *** U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 Haitian children are trafficked
annually to the Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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 - 2003 [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] www.ibfan.org/english/activities/crc/crcreport32.rtf II.
COUNTRY REVIEWS - [3] ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[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 Around 30,000 Haitian children are
illegally smuggled into the Haitian Children Sold as Slave Laborers and Prostitutes www.gnn.tv/headlines/5161/Haitian_Children_Sold_as_Slave_Laborers_and_Prostitutes At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 www.antislavery.org/archive/submission/submission2002-childlabour.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
LINKS
BETWEEN CHILD DOMESTIC WORK AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION - In The Human Security Bulletin - Conflict Profile www.humansecuritybulletin.info/page258.htm#Analysis At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [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 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 material used herein
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