February 2, 2020
Categories: Human Rights, Poverty, Restavek
The majority of children in Haiti earn one dollar or less for doing domestic work, according to data from 2013-14. The most common payment for all children is 90 cents for doing hard domestic work daily. The earning power of a Child Domestic Worker or CDW is much worse than a non-CDW. A very small […]
October 30, 2019
Categories: Human Rights, Politics, Slavery, Sovereignty, United States
Tags: labor standards, wages
Objectively, paying Haitian workers less than US$0.50/hour has produced slums and squalor. The US foreign policy to promote US corporate interests as a matter of national security has undermined Haitian sovereignty and supported a culture of labor exploitation. The aftermath of these policies is also domestic servitude. Conveniently there is a narrative that wants to […]
April 21, 2016
Categories: Economy, Poverty, United States
Tags: embassy, hanes, levis, slums, wages
Memos from 2008 and 2009 obtained by Wikileaks strongly suggest, but don’t prove without a doubt, that the State Department helped block the proposed minimum wage increase. The memos show that U.S. Embassy officials in Haiti clearly opposed the wage hike and met multiple times with factory owners who directly lobbied against it to the […]
March 7, 2015
Categories: Recipients, United States
Sonapi a Place For Miserable Wages That Generate Slums Poverty and Shareholders Dividends. #LetGirlsLearn #Happens with #Policy #Makers #Empowering #People with #Wages + #Humanrights. #Grants to #Grassroots #Ngo. #Stop Grants & #Partisanship with $300K+ #Salaries. #Transparency. The #Girls and #Moms #Working #Garment #Factories of #Haiti are #Exploited (#Enslaved) by #US #Congress #Trade #Policies. #Reality. #Poverty […]