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Haiti - Social : Put an end to the Children in Domesticity 12/06/2012 13:39:57
According to the ILO, 215 million children working in the world. In Haiti, they are more than 29%, a phenomenon illegal under international conventions in force, on labor, trafficking and child rights. According to Nancy Robinson, Senior Technical Adviser to the ILO, child labor is an obstacle to children's rights and an obstacle to development. "By entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of this critical education and training that can help to lift them, their families and communities out of a cycle of poverty. In its worst forms, child labourers may also be exposed to physical, psychological or moral suffering that can cause long term damage to their lives." The Chief Commissioner Jean Gardy Muscardin, Head of Child Protection Brigade, recalled that Haiti "has legal instruments to fight against the abuse suffered by children" with two laws passed in 2001 and 2003 respectively on corporal punishment and the elimination of Chapter 9 of the Labor Code which addresses "Children in service", but the country has not ratified the Universal Convention of International Labour Office on Child Labour [the Hague Convention was ratified yesterday Monday, June 11, 2012 to the Haitian Parliament.] Despite the lack of recent statistics in Haiti, all protection actors agree that children in domestic service, commonly known in Haiti "restaveks," are the most vulnerable fringe "These are the invisible," explained Jean Liby, the Chief of Child Protection within UNICEF "They are in homes, sometimes even in your homes." Placed by recruiters in families, these children are treated differently from children of the host family, and in majority they don't have access to education or medical care. A situation who, according to the representative of UNICEF, is "not acceptable", knowing that they are "particularly vulnerable to physical violence and abuse." Also, to raise awareness the public about this phenomenon who, according to the spokesman for the Coalition Against the System Restavek, Nadine François, "concerns us all," IOM this week launched a major campaign. Important point of this campaign against child labor, the reopening of the toll-free, the 188, should allow victims or witnesses of abuse and exploitation of children to report these crimes and to trigger the intervention of the Minors Protection Brigade. Jean Gardy Muscadin, who leads the Minors Protection Brigade has 35 officers within the PNH, invites the public to report such cases to prevent and punish any individual engaged in violence or exploitation of children. HL/ HaitiLibre
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