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Haiti: Restavèk

Categories: Caribbean, Haiti, Development, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Education, History, Human Rights, Labor, Law, Youth

“The restavèk practice essentially throws away the lives of children and along with them Haiti’s future”: jmc strategies [1] maintains that no matter how you slice it, “the practice of ‘lending’ a child away to go and live with well-off families” is still a form of slavery.