In Focus: Restaveks, Child Slaves of Haiti

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/caribbean/restaveks-child-slaves-haiti

An excerpt of a film produced by Dane Liu and Carmen Russel on the child slaves of Haiti—restaveks—as seen on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria. The film explores the lives of children who, due to economic depravity, are forced to leave their families and abandon their education to work as indentured servants.

Child slaves make up about 10 percent of the youth population in Haiti. Driven out of economic depravity, many parents are sending their children to live with others and serve as indentured servants in order to secure their survival. In a short documentary, Dane Liu and Carmen Russell explore the lives of these young children as they are forced to leave their families, sacrifice their education and spend their days working as child slaves.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Restaveks: Child Slaves of Haiti" (http://bit.ly/uejifk).

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Pulitzer Center
• Restaveks
• Child Slaves
• Modern Slavery
• Poverty
• Human Rights
• Child Labor
• Child Labor Haiti
• Child Labor Movement
• Haiti Education
• Women Children Crisis

[nadoop]

Why don't you propagandists expose US-France-Canada-IMF-World Bank crimes against the people of Haiti, instead of leaving people wondering why Haiti is in this predicament?

Explain to the American people how Haiti has been continually raped by the imperialist globalists. Go ahead, I dare you too.

[NokturnalTimes]

@williameva

stop talking shit

[b4chuck]

this made me sad. what happened to all of the money that was sent to Haiti after the earthquakes? this is embarrassing that the first country to free themselves from indentured servitude is still enforcing the same virtue they abolished years ago.

[knottedroots]

Whats bothering me is that there is only about 40 000 views...

[williameva]

give these people some condoms and help them stop reproducing

[puncho33]

why do the poorest people in the world have so many children??

[oringent]

@novembertalespinner Wikipedia is a legitimate source of information as most of the information is referenced. You not knowing that shows once again that you are in fact the dumb ass. Besides, you master of American English who knows a pseudo intellectual when they share their knowledge... you should also know the correct spelling of pseudo as this is apparently your domain ;-)

[novembertalespinner]

@oringent If you're using Wikipedia as a source the real dumb ass is you. By the way, how in the hell would you know what languages that I speak or anything about my educational background? Believe me, I know enough to know a pseduo intellectual when they share their knowledge.

[blue25mant]

this country has official controlled by the UN?

What kind of development work has been made?

by the way. it seems nothing

terrible.

[tommy9922]

I think adequate food combined with stringent birth control could go a long way in solving this problem.