* Critics say restaveks are child slaves * Tradition deeply ingrained in culture of former colony * Children freely given by parents to life of servitude By Jim Loney PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 18 (Reuters) ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 4 (TrustLaw) - Dayana Denois was always the last to go to bed and the first to wake up. By dawn, she had washed the dishes and clothes, cleaned and swept the floor and emptied the ...

Restavek is a form of modern-day slavery that is estimated to affect 300,000 (approximately 1 in 10) children in Haiti. The word is derived from the French and Creole term reste avec, which translates ...

MIAMI — The teen slept on a rolled-up mattress on the dining room floor and bathed in the backyard with a garden hose. For six years, she washed dishes, made beds and cooked for a family that beat her ...

Even as 10 Americans were charged Thursday with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti, aid agencies said the primary risk facing Haitian children comes from a generations-old practice ...

In Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, 1 in 10 children will die before reaching age 5 because of plagues like malnutrition. Who, then, can blame destitute Haitian mothers when they so ...

The 10 U.S. missionaries who were arrested in Haiti last month for allegedly abducting children no doubt consider themselves Christian martyrs. When a TIME reporter visited the Idaho Baptists recently ...

Amalendu Misra is a recipient of British Academy and Nuffield Foundation fellowships. After months of relentless gang violence, thousands of killings, and the unseating of a government, Haiti is faced ...

MIAMI -- The teen slept on a rolled-up mattress on the dining room floor and bathed in the backyard with a garden hose. For six years, she washed dishes, made beds and cooked for a family that beat ...