Restavèk No More: Eliminating Child Slavery in Haiti
Summary: The National Coalition for Haitian Rights' 2002 report on the restavèk system, one of the earliest sustained advocacy treatments in the corpus.
Key Findings
- Predates the survey-based prevalence estimates the corpus otherwise relies on.
- Estimates one in ten Haitian children as restavèk.
- Sets the practice against the 250 million children worldwide exploited for their labor.
Full Description
The National Coalition for Haitian Rights' 2002 report on the restavèk system, one of the earliest sustained advocacy treatments in the corpus. It predates the survey-based estimates the corpus otherwise relies on, so it shows what was argued before the numbers existed.
How to cite
National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR), 2002, Restavèk No More: Eliminating Child Slavery in Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/nchr-2002-restavek-no-more