Research Materials

BOOKS

About human trafficking and slavery worldwide

A Crime So Monstrous, by Ben Skinner

Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof

About Haiti

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder

About the restavek issue

Asefi, a restavek, the Phoenix of Haiti: A nation’s dream on a slave girl’s shoulders, by Jean J Telusma [fiction]

Restavek No More, by Jocelyn McCalla

Someday I will fly again: The Restavek, by Lili Dauphin [fiction]

RESEARCH REPORTS
Lost Childhoods in Haiti…
(November 2009), a report by Pan American Development Foundation and US Agency for International Development
Haiti: tarnished children
(January 2004), by Jacky Delorme, Journalist for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Child Domestic Labor in Haiti: Characteristics…
(May 2002), a report to UNICEF, ILO, and Save the Children by Fafo
Restavek: The Persistence of Child Labor and Slave
(October 2011), a submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review by Restavek Freedom
Trafficking in Persons Report – Haiti section
(June 2010), a report prpared by the US State Department
Protecting Human Rights in Haiti Program…
(August 2009), a report by Pan American Development Foundation and US Agency for International Development
Trafficking in Persons Report – Haiti section
(June 2009), a report prpared by the US State Department
UN Human Rights Expert Condemns Child ‘Slavery’ in
(June 2009), Gulnara Shahinian, the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
When the One Who Bears the Scars is the One…
(2008), by Laura Rose Wagner, Chapel Hill
Restavek: Child Domestic Labor in Haiti
(August 1990), a report of the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee