Source Kevin M. Ryan
Huffington Post
With the passage of New Jersey's exemplary new law to fight human trafficking, state officials expect great growth in the need for lawyers to represent survivors. So Assistant Attorney General Tracy Thompson joined with the head of a survivors advocacy group to train more than two dozen attorneys recently. They were interested in serving as pro bono (free) lawyers to victims of sex or labor trafficking, and they were there to learn about what legal services they might need to provide.
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Resuming the Fight Against Child Slavery in Haiti | Global Poverty | Change.org
When Ambassador Luis CdeBaca toured Haiti last Wednesday, he had only one goal. President Obama’s appointee on human trafficking hoped to prevent human exploitation from becoming yet one more challenge for the people of Haiti.
Slavery in Haiti a delicate matter, and one that is often muffled by other pressing issues — access to water, shelter, food. But if Haiti wants to stand on its feet, it has to acknowledge the social problems that affect its most abject citizens.
Advocacy groups in Haiti agree with this sentiment. And now, a network of these grassroots organizations is raising an alarm on slavery once more.
In Haiti, the practice of child slavery is widely accepted, with an estimated 300,000 children living in servitude. They perform daily chores, care for other families and accompany children to school. They themselves stay at home -- hence their name “restaveks,” from the phrase in Creole reste avec, or "one who stays." After the quake orphaned so many children, child advocacy groups feared many of the newly vulnerable would end up trapped in the child servitude system -- and unfortunately, it looks like they were right.
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