Poverty in Haiti Spawns Child Slavery 13 October 2008

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Haiti Poverty Children Slavery Culture Teresa Bo Al Jazeera
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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.

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