(PRNewswire) PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti , October. 21, 2013 - The
government of Haiti questioned
the findings of a recent report by the Walk Free Foundation on the alleged
prevalence of "modern slavery" in Haiti . As the first nation to
free itself from slavery in 1804 and a supporter of several Latin American
countries in their own fight for freedom, Haiti is a proud nation that
is attempting to address the problems of child labor and human trafficking that
have long plagued the country.
Such reports, however, incorrectly inflate the prevalence of
child labor in Haiti and
do an enormous disservice to our government's efforts to address the
issue. This report supposedly arrives at its conclusions by
"multiplying the estimated proportion of the population enslaved in [Haiti ]
(derived from random sample surveys and secondary source estimates) by the current
population."
