November 29, 2019
Categories: Restavek
Tags: fafo, Haiti earthquake, loss
Researchers canvassed all departments in Haiti and surveyed around 11,000 individuals. Particularly, the devastating 2010 earthquake affected over 1,100 — or 10 percent — of them. Additionally, the researchers surveyed over 2,000 households. Of which, the earthquake affected 10 percent. Specifically, 600 households, or around a third, had restavek, child domestic workers (CDW). Overall, […]
March 17, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: Haiti earthquake, IBESR, law, Restavek
Many host families do not even have the resources to send their own children to school since there is a dearth of free and public education. Furthermore, in most cases, host families themselves are poor and are often unable to properly feed even their own children. In fact, the PADF and USAID study found that […]
January 19, 2011
Categories: Natural Disaster, NGOs
Tags: Haiti earthquake, Paul Farmer
1. Jobs are everything. All humans need money — they need it to buy food and water every day. And no matter how hard the government or the aid industry tries, people will want for all three things until they are employed. The world pledged some $10.2 billion in recovery aid to Haiti after Jan. […]
January 12, 2011
Categories: Corruption, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Judicial, Justice, Natural Disaster
Tags: Haiti earthquake, National Penitentiary, pbs, videos
Can Haiti be rebuilt without the rule of law? A year after the earthquake, a powerful look at the violence threatening the country’s stability … and future. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/battle-for-haiti/