from a russian military unit all two hundred ninety eight people on board died russia has consistently denied involvement well and is holding a referendum on whether to relax some of the strictest abortion laws in europe voters are being asked if they want to repeal a law that effectively bans women from terminating their pregnancy the government says it would then introduce laws allowing abortion in some cases results are expected on saturday israel's supremes court has rejected a challenge by human rights groups to prevent soldiers from firing on protesters in gaza palestinians gathered along the gaza israel border again on friday to protest against the israeli blockade those are the headlines as slavery a twenty first evil coming right up.

for three hundred years the most powerful nations on us grew richer and stronger go on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children would also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.

amid the ruins of a devastating earthquake a human tragedy plays out in the slums of the caribbean island states of haiti and . it goes by another name but it's amounts to child slavery. and was no blood but it was as a last call schouten. re-assume one thousand million man was. very poorly. planned and really going to live on but we shall have to move him. whole bastogne enough with down their. lives. as in. civil affairs. both of them floated why then did i quote. you now feel that we know you want us to leave he what they really want to see is

that the bad. news was they want this that is that. eighty is only two hours flight away from the beaches of florida and yet it's the poorest country in the caribbean and off the decades of ruinous dictatorship and crushing poverty thousands of haitian families have been forced to place many of their children into a system that's led to their abuse and exploitation this system is called rest of back. rest the fact was some say a system with good intent that went bad. rest of the children were typically those born into the poorest the families in rural haiti was sent to wealthier families in cities in the hope that they would get a need to take action and a better life. the reality is that it has always been open to abuse and today

up to two hundred twenty five thousand children here a little bit somehow slaves. every day you know that if i did it. but how in a country that prides itself on being founded by slaves who rose up against a colonial masters could charles laverick become so endemic. is that you see only. chefs in a corner all who are libyan as this crowd. there's this clever this they soon leave now. oh or boards you really you know twelve for this crap huge deal for a city. and that is eleven years old. her life was changed dramatically for the worse by the earthquake.

but annette had already been robbed of a normal family upbringing she was just eight years old when she went to live with her aunt in the country's capital also a prince. she did receive some schooling in the afternoons but her working day typically began at three or four in the morning. at nights she slept on concrete. and the days were filled with threats of violence hanging over her. nose and gunfire lives in consumer. markets. and that's arms had a boyfriend who is a policeman but this offer had no protection. plan to file for now. that we know. that we're playing well and

if i am going to clear cause i'm going to fall platinum confed that one who. doesn't. want to take up to me. and that's experiences as a rest of a far from unique. and beyond the violence is something i have seen worse but the overwhelming sense according to writer and former rest of it back a day of a lost family life. it's like living in a family. but you're not part of the family it's like living in a home it's not your home because you know eventually they're going to tell you to get out it's living in fear fear of fear of adult and fear of the unknown the unknown is the future because you here today you don't know if you going to be with that family tomorrow every. rest of action is

a word rarely spoken publicly in haiti today. it has become almost the forbidden subject talked about only by those who campaign to stop it. why are people so reluctant even to use the word starving it's in haiti and why. people don't want to talk about it because also a good system o'keeffe it wants. enough on restavec. faith want to. enough on the subject i want to deal in their least ethic posts a good way simone sing. the. key if you want bullet lead then the tunica. and so embedded is the rest of it system in haitian culture. that it even takes hold in the sprawling tent cities that are

still filled with a pool made homeless by the two thousand and ten earthquake. organizer jackie teaching shows us around this un supervised camp conditions of. the moon but i fail to live. on the outside of a show. e.g. . the camp is filled with children many who have lost their parents and yes quite. starved in makeshift schools try to bring back an air of normality to their lines. but it is a constant struggle against the appealing conditions as this teacher explains to me . by the conditions here and i mean this is a makeshift plastic. drawing of a running rains obviously just walls of holes through the the tent was

fitted so the searching water here publishing that i was speaking to in the other classroom those three boys were just chatting with me all the difference had died in the earthquake so. therefore it's only orphans being looked off to here and what they do eventually. is impossible to tell but in conditions as bad as these and with so many orphans the dangers of children. elling into lives as rest of x. are so great that the camp overseers send out regular child protection patrols. isaac is a member of one of them. could see it if you see the. living. and the more difficult the conditions the worse of the lives of children who become rest of things.

but. i mean. members of the child protection patrol look for clues the children without parents being exploited in the camp. just tell me you know what one of the things that identifies the rest of the children from among rest of the children. on the mount. in the. media. so i do want. members of the patrol can remove children they think are restaurants but they have nowhere outside the camp to take them. so the patrols are more about being visible

and collecting information. on why. the film widens out. but these problems are not limited to ten cities they are also endemic in the city's crowded and earthquake damaged slums. there is never a shortage of rest of children dragged into this life by conditions elsewhere in the country. decades of poverty and the destruction wrought by the earthquake of two thousand and ten have made the already harsh conditions in port-au prince even worse and yet despite this thousands of haitians make the journey out of the rural areas to the capital almost every week and that's because as bad as things are here there's an even greater lack of resources in the provincial countryside.

one of those children is. he lives with his aunt sonia her two children and her husband roosevelt. all of them are trapped in lives just spiraling downwards. more. liberally in oblivion. here you. you got to see why didn't with. the obviously bad laugh. once or whatever and with out of your limit do may even. do your year so you guys in the. living room when you were moving over to morrow will be in the gutter with you. if you will soon know bag a song where you gave me what. it will be another no one a.t.p. for when they see you do when the avenue. that

it. would seem when you have been going to pass you without passin. but if there was ever parts of these plans the families collapse into poverty off to be earthquake has changed all that. you know what they were down there on their. team when you ought. to know those are going. to. learn. a lot harder. to. do all this if ok so yeah they. know who is going to win out over. the you know. who tell a come here about it but to me you know even though it's only

a quarter. it's a measure of how insidious the rest of it system is so much of it seems to happen among relatives. and rest of the children are often hidden in plain sight. nine year old smith for example running off alone looking still on a tiny rundown street on the outskirts of port au prince. smith lives in a two room shack with her cousin shelley. who maintains that smith is simply being tools domestic nationals working in them by the we sum up what we have would you visit. the last summer in a way yeah. good bad people will get one bad if it even the one i would. say been fishy w.h.y. even after i've been quite an ivy you have to live in a fish that we didn't know we didn't have even we could make it

a levee. but smith tells a different story in which she is much more than a mere observer of housework done. up to check. on they assume i. moved very poorly i was happy in the family you really are. i believe. and according to smith a cousin is far from a caring guardian. you could live on but me show you can have. their full back then you have to win if i see well i. mean a bad. day one but at. the back to be back if you will is the fear but as i have often been told to feel i am the best when then let me. let on i doubt we will be so.

weak. despite this shirlene denies that she has been responsible for any mistreatment of smith. the governments in haiti has been the practice of rest of it argues it is no longer tolerated and may not even exist today. will not belive funny. funny that battlefront almost instantly film in this very yeah. ok that ministers are still moving on the mucky mucks in the belts here by the middle mean. that you feel sayings and then you know what god would this is them with direct. sun existed sun and sunday where proof exists. some people describe the rest of it phenomenon as a modern form of slavery what do you think non there by that. for those looked.

through to be starving so that success. downtown in port au prince and the earthquake damage streets can seem full of working children . rest of this is a common sight and with little evidence that there is a. we attempt to regulate all monitor what goes on. why isn't it more of a political priority in this country i think it's because this system is so ingrained into the culture that people become so desensitized to it the haitian ambassador said that haiti is too poor haiti does not have the resources necessary to combat the system and then plus he said that the system is too ingrained into the fabric of our culture that it's difficult to eradicate it.

america has long been haiti's biggest international fund this year alone it has sense more than twenty seven million dollars to tackle the aftermath of the two thousand and ten earthquake. america is also the leading international player in the fight against modern slavery yet its commitment to help haiti's child slaves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. the rich countries of the north have anti trafficking units and they don't quite grasp that it's all about slavery most of the slaves in the world are trafficked anywhere they're in slave to their own community and it's a shame that it's taken so long for the richest countries to get a grip on this problem and really come to an understanding of it because they're the ones who are most capable of doing so to do something about it do you not feel well. i think with a little international focus and almost no political will or capability in haiti

itself the fight to free rest of children from the chains of slavery is largely left to n.g.o.s. but also but they have found a way to erode the system it relies on the most precious and prized commodity of all in haiti education. we have to have men to toe education but until we have men that toe education i think the work sensitizing the general public or influencing the new generation i think this work is a vital. street corners in early rush hour in port au prince filled with children not working but on their way to school. despite the fact that virtually private in haiti children from even the poorest families of finding interesting impeccably turndowns freshly laundered uniforms.

and for rest of the children left on the sidelines as their cousins and friends attend lessons education is the one thing they designed the most is. a school week. if. this classroom is full of rest of the children who have been rescued by an anti slavery grant. for most if not sign of that this kind of charity provision is their only chance of getting a decent and regular education. full here that they move. back the tweeted of with with the fourth quarter fund middle full sail for this would

you do feel sick and still could you need to avoid the file because. in you mean that you mean yes you know. it's a humiliation keenly felt by rest of actual. doing. ok so. ask. about i suppose a sadness are you by media sad to. fuck. but i definitely shows you the list bullimore your defecating who committed to manual fast like about that simplicity man should do and i would feel campaigners like detroit says to take their message into schools because many of these pupils encounter rest of x. or live in families where rest of the children a can't see their battles all the dangers she believes is that they may not

recognize the presence of rest of x. in their lives as a problem in our. own that's what are some oysters so that also doing. our very. wobbly mats they have missed out there can i see yet the systemic yet important magic give em up their version of also getting ill see who was. so who are there though south africa continue. of course. it's commitment. good if you think it's the schools and they're not it's not really. because it is a first step. on the road in the other injustices suffered by them way in new not to accompany a new move was only a tough year. for. so

you know what. he does that's not far off on the. love for the well. when you consider my lad. yes. my lad. this is. memon any money i got in my lad on a mensch. these former rest of a children in an american run rescue home in port au prince a reintroduced to the comforts and rigors of a home life and an education that has had a dramatic effect. monday. in new london. movie

agnes my sadness. my name is alice. but these children of the lucky ones the problem with rest of x. is that their numbers are a solo launch and the attempts to abolish the system so relatively piecemeal. as this country tries to rebuild itself from the earthquake the real test of progress will not just be new bricks and mortar. but new hope for the children trapped in an old and been growing food a slave. ship awful games in the single digit is that. men are yet to get back in moment to happen so they all deal with all that bad ball game in the past i'm not me

lad basename child then. if we accept. that children being use as rest of the child slaves. we're talking about ten percent of the haitian population i don't think. would have a future. full board loudness out was a bad fellow on. a muslim buffett. what they. say. in the next episode of slavery of twenty first century evil brazil's chalk full slaves on the chain links them to consume the foods world was.

exploited to man and use the killing. would take to make the charcoal that feels have. that forged a steel which didn't make shoes the trade that exploits them and. penetrates global markets slavery a twenty first century evil continues with charcoal slaves.

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