First Major Study Explores Urban Violence, Human Rights Issues
Nearly a quarter million impoverished children – mostly young girls – are forced to work as unpaid domestic servants in major Haitian cities, according to the first major survey of Haiti’s human rights, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) announced.
Pitcher Joaquin Benoit Sends a Much-Needed Christmas Present to Haiti
Major League Baseball pitcher and former Texas Rangers Joaquin Benoit is adding new meaning to the word “relief” this Christmas for thousands of Haitians.
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Jimmy Jean-Louis
Jimmy Jean-Louis kicks off an innovative U.S. campaign to help children who are the victims of trafficking and exploitation in Haiti. “The situation is a stain on human dignity,” says Jimmy, who is also known as “The Haitian” on the hit NBC series “Heroes.”
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Raising Awareness
As part of the I Too Am Haiti campaign, we took the case of exploited and trafficked children to the U.S. Congress.
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A desperate economic situation in Haiti – where one in eight children will die before age five – causes some parents to do the unthinkable. Children are pressed into forced labor, prostitution, gangs and more just to support their siblings. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can change it.
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