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 Haitian government’s failure during the reporting period to use the 2014 anti-trafficking law to prosecute and convict perpetrators of child domestic servitude. This is a government assessment of enforcement, not a measure of all cases. The report makes visible the gap between a formal legal prohibition and children’s lived access to protection and justice.
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What enforcement gap did the 2023 U.S. report identify?
The report criticized non-use of the law for such prosecutions and convictions during its reporting period.
The 2023 U.S. report said Haiti had prosecuted and convicted perpetrators of child domestic servitude under the 2014 law during the period.
The report criticized the government’s failure to use the law for such prosecutions and convictions during the period.