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Kinship is a prime and more socially acceptable recruiting source. However, family ties may camouflage poor treatment when children are away during the school year. They traditionally do household chores at home, but as Restaveks far more in an abusive environment.
PADF cited other issues, including:
-- growing numbers of street children forced to beg to survive;
-- young women (including underage adolescents) recruited for prostitution;
-- Restavek cross-border trafficking to the Dominican Republic, including for sex;
-- kidnappings to sell children and women into bondage; and
-- violence in urban neighborhoods, including organized murder, rape, other physical assaults, and kidnappings committed by the Haitian National Police, UN MINUSTAH peacekeepers, other armed "authorities," and politically partisan gangs.
PADF Summary of Key Findings
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