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 legacy of slavery to present struggles over children’s freedom and safety, but armed-group recruitment is not the same legal or historical institution as chattel slavery or restavek forced domestic labor. UNICEF called for protection, prevention, and services for children affected by violence.
A UN Human Rights Council report dated 4 September 2009 followed a June mission to Haiti. Special Rapporteur Gulnara Shahinian described the restavèk system—children placed in other households in...
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...
👉 UNICEF reports children make up a large share of armed-group membership
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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...
On 25 November 2024, UNICEF said recruitment of children into armed groups in Haiti had risen by 70 percent in one year. The agency linked the increase to escalating violence and described children as...
A decree published in Haiti’s official gazette on 17 April 2025 created the Comité National Haïtien de Restitution et Réparation (CNHRR). Its mandate is to develop economic, financial, legal, and...
On 17 April 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that the 1825 indemnity imposed a price on Haitian freedom and announced a mixed Franco-Haitian commission of historians. The commission...
A Haitian presidential decree published on 8 August 2025 named historian Gusti-Klara Gaillard Pourchet as co-chair of the Haitian side of the Franco-Haitian historians’ commission and set out its...
On 8 September 2025, Haiti’s transitional presidential council formally installed the CNHRR, moving the committee created by the April decree into active public work. The committee’s mandate links...
