Week 5 Blog 2

July 9, 2008 haiti101

In the deserpate of cirumstances i guess anybody will do anything to survive. As you know Haiti is an extremely poor country that is slowly on its way to killing its own people. I just finished readng an article in which during a five-month long investigation, ABC News’ Dan Harris uncovered disturbing evidence of modern-day slavery. Child slavery is against the law in Haiti, but an estimated 300,000 children there are forced to become domestic laborers

“I don’t think they don’t love them,” he said. “They love them but because they think they cannot take care of them so they just turn them over to another person and the other person ensures them that they will take care of the child. But when the child gets into the house they do not keep their promises.” http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/404964.aspx

Trafficing and slavery is not only hapening in Haiti but in many countries around the world inculding the United States. This is an epedemic that makes me sick. Children are not for sale and should never considered less than human. These children are being robbed of their childhood and being exposed an corrupted to the most horrible of things. It is unfair and cruel to allow this many children to be subjected to slavery. The United States did so much to ban slavery, that we sometimes forget tat the rest of the world has not yet caught up.

 

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  • 1. Heather  |  July 15, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    I agree with every point you have made here. Child slavery is completely disgusting and I dont’ understand how governments can “overlook” it, you would think they know about it…It really fires me up to think how children are mistreated and hopefully one of these days child slavery will end completely.


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