THE USES OF CHILDREN:
Date of Publication
1-1-2023 12:00 AM
Keywords
human security, international organizations, child trafficking, sexual/verbal violence
Description
The US Department of State makes annual country assessments of the incidence of severe trafficking and local government response to trafficking. A hundred victims or more is considered a significant number. By these standards Haiti is afflicted with severe levels of trafficking in persons. In June 2003, the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons identified Haiti as a “Tier 3” country – the most severe status category according to State Department criteria. The trafficking phenomenon behind this assessment was primarily in-country exploitation of “restavèk” children as domestic servants, i.e., a practice deemed to fit the criteria of trafficking in children for forced labor and sexual exploitation. The Trafficking in Persons report also stated that Haitian children were trafficked into the Dominican Republic for similar purposes.
THE USES OF CHILDREN:
The US Department of State makes annual country assessments of the incidence of severe trafficking and local government response to trafficking. A hundred victims or more is considered a significant number. By these standards Haiti is afflicted with severe levels of trafficking in persons. In June 2003, the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons identified Haiti as a “Tier 3” country – the most severe status category according to State Department criteria. The trafficking phenomenon behind this assessment was primarily in-country exploitation of “restavèk” children as domestic servants, i.e., a practice deemed to fit the criteria of trafficking in children for forced labor and sexual exploitation. The Trafficking in Persons report also stated that Haitian children were trafficked into the Dominican Republic for similar purposes.
