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brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the us elections on a. 300 years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and strong on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children were forcibly 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 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever.
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amid the ruins of a devastating earthquake a human tragedy plays out in the slums of the caribbean island state of haiti and. it goes by another name but it's amounts to child slavery. no problems. the last call shall didn't come out. they assume my family in the me very poorly. really you couldn't even but we shall have you him. full bus tony and no fun with dad there. wasn't that you got him civil affairs.
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are both above 100 why then do i want. you now still that will know you want to leave more to live you want to see is that the bad news was it what this that is above the. page is only true 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 effect was some say a system with good intent that went back. rest of a children with typically those born into the poorest the families in rural haiti
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was sent to wealthier families in cities in the hope that they would get an education and a better life. the reality is that it has always been open to abuse and today up 222-5000 children here a little bit from how slaves. have it 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 slavery become so endemic. in this that you see only. shasta. poor libyan as this crowd if you oppose. schussler kolo there's this real estate soulive. or boards you know 12 for this crap huge though for the beastie city. and that is 11 years old.
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her life was changed dramatically for the worse by the earthquake. last. night. but annette had already been robbed of a normal family upbringing. she was just 8 years old when she went to live with her aunt in the country's capital also france. she did receive some schooling in the afternoons but her working day typically began at 3 or 4 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.
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and that's arms had a boyfriend who was a policeman but this offer had no protection. plan or file for now. that we know. that we're playing well you know file i'm going to clear call them going for them confide. in my god where. they come to me. and that's experiences as a rest of it are far from unique. and beyond the violence is something i have to see even worse. the overwhelming sense according to writer and former rest of 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
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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 a forbidden subject talked about only by those who campaign to stop it. why are people so reluctant even to use the word. it's in haiti and why. people don't want to talk about it exactly because also good says look if you want. enough on restavec. faith i want to. enough on this subject i want to deal with the stuff a post a good place is a model saying. the. key
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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 the pool made homeless by the 2010 earthquake. organizer jackie chan shows us around this un supervised camp conditions. as a good omen but i fail to live. on the outside of a show coming up because i know. he enjoys. the camp is filled with children many who have lost their parents to me 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 appalling conditions as this teacher explains to me
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. by the conditions here and i mean this is a makeshift clouston and. drawing up already rains obviously just walls of holes through the the tent was fitted so the searching also here publishing that i was speaking to in the other classroom those 3 boys were just chatting with me or with their parents 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 what was in conditions as bad as these and with so many orphans the dangers of children. ling 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.
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on television. and the more difficult the conditions the worse of the lives of children who become rest of things. but. i mean any. 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. believe.
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it's. 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. men feel sick in. the south. but these problems are not limited to 10 cities they are also endemic in the city's crowded and earthquake damaged slums . there was 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 2010 have made the already harsh conditions in port-au prince even worse and yet
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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 2 children and her husband roosevelt. all of them are trapped in lives just spiraling downwards. more. liberal in oblivion. here you phone from. going to see why didn't with. the obviously bad laugh. you will look once in a world of good without him you illuminate do may even. have a do your year guys in their. living and when you move your arm out it will be
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illegal to you. if you will soon know where gay so where gave me what. it will not i know an a.t.p. for when they see you do and when you do ave the mallees uki that it. would seem when you have been going to class 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 got. to know those i'm going to. learn. a lot i learned. what to.
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do all this if ok so yeah they. know. they're doing. it for that if only you know who to make one. and. it's a measure of how insidious the rest of it system is that so much of it seems to happen among relatives. and rest of our children are often hidden in plain sight. 9 year old smith for example running off alone looking still on the tiny rundown street on the outskirts of port au prince. smith lives in a 2 room shack with her cousin shelley. who maintains that smith is simply being tools domestic nationals working in them by we sum up what we have would you visited me in the last summer. when many
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good people who died in one bad didn't fit in even the one i went to even seemed 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 think i really really really believe i was having moved him where you really are. only. and according to smith a cousin is far from a caring guardian. you could live on but we shall have your room there full by then you'll have to put to well i. am back. with a little bit of. the back to be back if you will use the fear but as i
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have often willing to defy them the best time with them let me. let on that we focus on. my mileage to go week. 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 all gives it is no longer tolerated and may not even exist today. will not belive funny. funny back a bottle found almost instantly with film in this. yeah. ok that mr gas you do have a on the market accept the belts here by the middle. lets you
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feel sayings and then you know what god would this is them with direct. sun existed sun xander 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 dubious diving so leave that to us. yet 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 moments of 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
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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 $27000000.00 to tackle the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. america is also the leading international player in the fight against modern slavery. yes its commitment to help haiti's chance slaves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. the rich countries of the north have entered 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
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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 are the ones who are most capable of doing something something about it do you not feel . that 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 oh education i think the work of 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
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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 a filing interest impeccably turned out freshly laundered uniforms. and for rest of their children left on the sidelines as their cousins and friends attend lessons education is the one thing they designed the most is you. know it's good to let alone. but. that's because we. want this classroom is full of rest of the children who have been rescued by an anti slavery grant. for most if not all of the this kind of charity provision is their only chance of
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getting a decent and regular education. full here to make food. the great deal of conflict with the 44500000 phone sylvius we do feel sick and still we need to avoid the file because. in the mean that you need yes you know. it's a humiliation keenly felt by rest of actual. son to know. entirely. ok so yeah. ask. him. about i suppose the sadness are you by media side the. fun. but i'll often shows you the list bullimore defecating with limited to manual fast like you but that's
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a pretty mantra don't know what their campaign is 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 life what are some oysters so that also to me. are very. real. they have missed out there can i see yet the systemic problem magic. there was another source getting see who is 0 day so. the south are continually of course. is commitment about the. good news
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to schools and they're not exactly the same as a 1st step. on the road in the other injustices suffered by them way in new not to accompany a new movie proposal to travel yet. so you know while. she does that's a fun enough on the one i. love for the one. who i knew consider my lad pulling his stuff except some few years. my lad. memon an emo got it in my lad on a mensch. these former rest of actual gem in an american run rescue home in port au prince a reintroduce of the comforts and brigades of
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a home life and an education that has had a dramatic effect. monday. in new london on. this movie i made in my sadness. my new design lives. but these children are 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 of slave.
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ship awful games in the single digits is that. more than reactors will get back in a moment to happen so they can all do almost all that bad falls short of the me glad you asked him inshallah then. if we accept. that children being used as rest of the child slaves. would tell them back and percent of the haitian population i don't think they. would have a future. full board loudness out was a bad fellow on. a mission buffet. what they. mean being able.
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