Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Oct 17 08
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.
The country's government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.
Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports. (October 13, 2008)
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