August 5, 2019
Categories: Infrastructure, Poverty, Recipients, Resources, Restavek, Technology
In Haiti, many poor rural families hoping to provide a better future for their children send them to live as domestic servants in the homes of urban / semi-urban families. These children, mostly girls are extremely vulnerable to emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. These children are known as Restavek. 1,617 children were chosen and surveyed […]
June 30, 2017
Categories: Corruption, Judicial, NGOs, Politics, Resources, Restavek, Sovereignty, United Nations, United States
Tags: child labor, NGO, policy
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MAST) holds the responsibility of defining and executing the government’s social policy in Haiti while ensuring the safety of workers in both formal and informal sectors and by granting specific protection to the family, women and children. They play an important role in fighting against child domestic labour. […]
May 15, 2015
Tags: africa, corruption, Inequality, Myth
Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South. Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow and the most corrupt nations smeared in stigmatising red. The […]
May 15, 2015
Categories: Access, Education, Human Rights, Resources, Technology
Tags: Accessbilty, Facebook, Google, Internet
85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can’t afford data plans. So Facebook’s accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android.. Source: techcrunch.com 85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can’t afford data plans. So Facebook’s accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android.. See on Scoop.it – Teaching and testing