“Restavecs”, slave children in Haïti.
On december 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sixty years later, a significant number of countries in the world seem to keep ignoring the statements of this text. In Haiti, about three hundred thousand children live in slavery. Given away,sold or abandoned by their families,they barely survive in the slums of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Sheges of Kinshasa: the sacrified children of a wounded country.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children whatever their age, can be pushed to the streets or deliberately abandoned, they are as many targets of family anger and fear. Then, they are called sheges, a name most often synonymous with “sorcerer-children”because their families think they have brought misfortune down on them: a mother fallen victim to AIDS, ill infants, a wedding that does not happen, work not found… In a society gradually falling apart, scapegoats have to be found…
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