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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 material used herein
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