UN report identifies restavèk child domestic servitude as a contemporary form of slavery

At Marchaterre near Les Cayes, U.S. Marines opened fire on a peaceful peasant demonstration on 6 December 1929, killing between 12 and 22 people according to the Sciences Po Mass Violence and...

The U.S. President’s Commission for the Study and Review of Conditions in Haiti, chaired by William Cameron Forbes, submitted its report on 26 March 1930. The report emerged after mass opposition...

The final contingent of U.S. Marines withdrew from Haiti on 15 August 1934, ending the nineteen-year military occupation. The transfer followed prolonged Haitian opposition, including rural...

On 7 April 2003, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide publicly demanded that France return the money Haiti had been compelled to pay after independence. The demand placed the 1825 indemnity and its...

Haiti ratified ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour on 19 July 2007. The convention requires urgent action against slavery-like practices, trafficking, forced or compulsory...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, killing and displacing large numbers of people and disrupting family care, schooling, and social services. UNICEF warned in its...

At the close of its 34th regular meeting on 6 July 2013, CARICOM heads of government agreed to establish national reparations committees in member states and a regional CARICOM Reparations Commission....

Haiti’s Law No. CL/2014-0010 was published in the official gazette Le Moniteur on 2 June 2014. It established measures to prevent trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect survivors, addressing...

The U.S. Department of State’s 2023 Trafficking in Persons report, published 15 June 2023, documented ongoing forced labor in child domestic service, commonly called restavek, and criticized the...

On 28 May 2024, UNICEF reported that children constituted an estimated 30–50 percent of members of armed groups in Haiti, exposed to coercion, abuse, and exploitation. The finding connects the...