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Protect Girls in Domestic Labour in Haiti - 24 November 2009

Children in domestic service live with a host family undertaking domestic chores in return for their board and lodging. They are frequently exploited, ill treated and denied their right to education, healthcare and food. Their situation has been described as a form of modern slavery by the UN.

Haiti government must eradicate child slavery - 18 November 2009

Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to protect children working as domestic help in conditions that amount to slavery, said Amnesty International ahead of Universal Children’s Day.

Haiti: Government must eradicate child slavery - 18 November 2009

Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to protect children working as domestic help in conditions that amount to slavery, said Amnesty International ahead of Universal Children’s Day.
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Food shortages, chronic unemployment and natural disasters exacerbated poverty and marginalization, jeopardizing minimal essential levels of access to health care, adequate housing, educat

No freedom – journalists stopped from doing their jobs - 3 May 2009

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing numbers of their colleagues a

Summit of the Americas fails to address human rights - 20 April 2009

The Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework for progress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and env

Amnesty International puts human rights on Americas Summit agenda - 16 April 2009

An Amnesty International delegation has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to take part in the Summit of the Americas.

Don’t turn your back on girls - Sexual violence in Haiti - 27 November 2008

Sexual violence against girls in Haiti is widespread and pervasive, and although already at shocking levels, is said to be on the increase.

Haiti: No protection for girls against sexual violence - 27 November 2008

(Haiti) The government of Haiti is failing to protect the country’s girls against rape and sexual violence, Amnesty International said today, as it launched a re
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