HAITI ADVOCACY
WORKING GROUP (HAWG)

HAWG is a working group of international development, faith-based, human rights and social justice organizations advocating on issues related to U.S. - Haiti policy.

Home
The HAWG Approach
- The HAWG Approach
- Participating Groups
Issues
News
- News
- Archive
Contact
twitter

Home
The HAWG Approach
- The HAWG Approach
- Participating Groups
Issues
News
- News
- Archive
Contact
twitter

News

A girl in class at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ). Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children
(Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)

Gender &Human Rights

February 10, 2012 0 comments

The HAWG works to protect and defend the social and economic rights of the most vulnerable in Haiti.

← Previous 1 … 17 18 19

Issues

Aid Accountability
Cholera Epidemic
Climate Change
Elections and Democracy
Gender & Human Rights
Housing

Twitter Feed

About

HAWG is a working group of international development, faith-based, human rights and social justice organizations advocating on issues related to U.S. - Haiti policy.

Issues

Aid Accountability
Cholera Epidemic
Climate Change
Elections and Democracy
Gender & Human Rights
Housing

Multiple organizations contribute sector-specific recommendations and positions that are expressed in HAWG communications and materials. These materials are not designed to be consensus positions and have not been explicitly endorsed by each organization active in the HAWG.

Copyright © 2023 Haiti Advocacy Working Group (HAWG)

Website and support by Wagon Wheel Website Development in Eugene, Oregon