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Haitian Children Have Minimal Access to Amenities Common Around the Globe

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 …

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Child Labour in Haiti – What is the Government doing about it?

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. …

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Flipping the corruption 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 …

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Haiti: List of Book Reviews

Source: www2.webster.edu These are mainly by Bob Corbett but other reviewers are identified at the beginning of reviews. See on Scoop.it – Haiti – History

Internet.Org’s App With Free Access To Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Local Info Launches In Zambia | TechCrunch

  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