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The estimates for numbers of restaveks in Haiti range from 100,000 to 500,000. [12] A 2002 door-to-door survey found the number of restaveks under age 17 in Haiti to be 173,000, and 59 percent of them were girls. [10] As poverty and political turmoil increase, the reported number of restaveks continues to rise dramatically. [13]
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in an overnight attack in a Haitian town led by the Gran Grif gang, local newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported on Thursday ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the ...
The restavek system accounts for the lion's share of human trafficking in Haiti. [92] Families send the children into other households, exchanging their labor for upbringing. [ 95 ] Impoverished rural parents hope for education and a better life for their children in the city, [ 96 ] sending them to wealthier (or at least less poor) households ...
When Haiti’s slow-motion crisis unfurled last week as gangs united to attack the country’s core institutions, White House officials turned to national security and intelligence agencies to ...
The term restavek is used in Haiti for a child sold by its parents to work for a host household as a domestic servant because the parents are unable to support the child. [22] The practice meets formal international definitions of modern day slavery and child trafficking , and is believed to affect an estimated 300,000 Haitian children. [ 23 ]