Understand the difference is similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take. Out just the. Current affairs. For 300 years the most powerful nations on us grew richer on strong gold the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children would also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Amid the ruins of a devastating earthquake a human tragedy plays out in the slums of the caribbean island states of haiti and. It goes by another name but its amounts to child slavery. And instead of no blood diamonds as of last. Month they assume 1000000000 man me very poorly. Really you could live on but we shall have you live. Whole bus journey and all far we stand there. Was in that you got him civil affairs. One photo why then do i want. You now still the. Key you want us to leave mortally wounded see is that the bit that needs it that was what they wanted. That is above it. Is only true hours flight away from the beaches of florida and yet its the poorest country in the caribbean and off the decades of ruin a stick to ship and crushing poverty thousands of haitian families have been forced to place many of their children into a system thats led to the abuse and exploitation this system is called rest of back. Rest effect was some say a system with good intent that when the. Rest of the children were typically those born into the poorest the families in rural haiti was sent to wealthier families in cities in the hope that they would get an education and a better life. The reality is that it has always been open to abuse and today up 2225000 children here a little bit and how slaves. That you know that it is. But how in a country that prides itself on being founded by slaves who rose up against a colonial masters could child slavery become so endemic. Is that only did shasta nichole. Poor libyan is this rather. This clever this they soon leave. Oh or bored you really you know 12 for all this crap. Dull dull fun. Annettes is 11 years old. Her life was changed dramatically for the worse by the quake. Last. Night. But annette had already been robbed of a normal family upbringing. She was just 8 years old when she went to live with her aunt in the countrys capital also promised. She did receive some schooling in the afternoons but her working day typically began at 3 or 4 in the morning. At nights she slept on concrete. And the days were filled with threats of violence hanging over her. Look sharp knives and gunfire lived in consumer. Markets. And thats arms had a boyfriend who is a policeman but this offer had no protection. Plan to file for now mo we know. That were playing well and if i live i mean to clear cause im going full blast im going felt that way you mean my god where. Do they come to me. And thats experiences as a rest of it off far from unique. And beyond the violence is something perhaps even worse but the overwhelming sense according to writer and former rest of it back a day of a lost family life. Its like living in a family. But youre not part of the family its like living in a home its not your home because you know eventually theyre going to tell you to get out its living in fear fear of fear of adult and fear of the unknown the unknown is the future because you here today you dont know if you going to be with that family tomorrow every. Rest of action is a word rarely spoken publicly in haiti today. It has become almost a forbidding subject talked about only by those who campaign to stop it. Why are people so reluctant even to use the word starving its in haiti and why. People dont want to talk about it because it also good says look if you want. Enough on restavec. Faith want to. Enough on the subject i want to deal get there least efik post a good place is a mile sing. God save key if you want bullet lead then the tunica. And so embedded is the rest of it system in haitian culture. That it even takes hold in the sprawling tent cities that are still filled with a pool made homeless by the 2010 earthquake. Organizer jackie chan shows us around this un supervised camp conditions on. The moon but i fail to have him. On the outside of a show coming up because i know. He enjoys. The camp is filled with children many who have lost their parents and yes quite. Starved in makeshift schools try to bring back an air of humanity to their lines. But it is a constant struggle against the appalling conditions as this teacher explains to me. By the conditions here and i mean this is a makeshift clouston and. Drawing up already rains obviously just also falls through the the tent was affected so the searching also here publishing that i was speaking to in the other classroom those 3 boys were just chatting with me or with their parents had died in the earthquake so. Therefore its only orphans being looked off to here and what they are doing eventually. Is impossible to tell but in conditions as bad as these and with so many orphans the dangers of children. Elling into lives as rest of x. Are so great that the camp overseers send out regular Child Protection patrols. Isaac is a member of one of them. Could see it if you see them on for a living. And the more difficult the conditions the worse of the lives of children who become rest of things. But. I mean to me its. Members of the Child Protection patrol look for clues the children without parents being exploited in the camp. Just tell me you know what one of the things that identifies the rest of the children from among rest of the children. On the mount. In the. Media. So. Its. Members of the patrol can remove children they think are restaurants but they have nowhere outside the camp to take them. So the patrols are more about being visible and collecting information. On why. The film widens out. But these problems are not limited to 10 cities they are also endemic in the citys crowded and earthquake damaged slums. There was never a shortage of rest of children dragged into this life by conditions elsewhere in the country. Decades of poverty and the destruction wrought by the earthquake of 2010 have made the already harsh conditions in portau prince even worse and yet despite this thousands of haitians make the journey out of the rural areas to the capital almost every week and thats because as bad as things are here theres an even greater lack of resources in the provincial countryside. One of those children is. He lives with his aunt sonia her 2 children and her husband roosevelt. All of them are trapped in lives that are spiraling downwards. More. Liberally in oblivion to. Hear you. Youre going to see why do you mean with. The obviously bad laugh. Once in a while dobbs and without him you illuminate do may even. Do your year guys in the. Following year when you when we will now it will be illegal. If you will soon know where gay so where gave me what. It will not i know one day 2 people when they see you do when the avenue. That it. Would seem when you have been going to pass you without. Moving. But if there was ever parts of these plans the families collapse into poverty off to be earthquake has changed all that. What they would only say on their. Team when youre up. To no nos i want her. To. Live a long time learning. What to. Do all this if ok so yeah they. Have to know whos going to win out over. There you know. To do that if only you know even though its only a quarter. Its a measure of how insidious the rest of it system is so much of it seems to happen among relatives. And rest of our children are often hidden in plain sight. 9 year old smith for example running off alone looking still on the tiny rundown street on the outskirts of Port Au Prince. Smiths lives in a 2 room shack with her cousin shelley. Who maintains that smith is simply being tools domestic chores can get him by but i give them no we sum up what we have words he visited me in the last. Yeah. When me good bad people dead mum bad didnt fit in even the way i would. Say been fishy w. H. Y. Even after ive been quite an ivy you have to live in a fish that we didnt know we didnt have even we could make it a levee. But smith tells a different story in which she is much more than a mere observer of housework done. Up to check. On they assume length i really believe very poorly i was having moved him where you really are. Only. And according to smith a cousin is far from a caring guardian. You could live on but we shall have your room there full by then you have been effective and i. Am back. With a little bit of. The back to be back if you will use the fear but as i have offered me the different in the past when then let me. Let on that we focus on. Week. Despite this shirlene denies that she has been responsible for any mistreatment of smith. The governments in haiti has been the practice of rest of it argues it is no longer tolerated and may not even exist today. Will not belive funny. Funny that follow follow me since in the film in this there yeah. Ok that ministers are still moving on the market accept the belts here by the middle mean. That you feel sayings and then you know what god would this is them with vic the. Sun exists a son xander where proof exists. Some people describe the rest of it phenomenon as a modern form of slavery what do you think non thereby that. For those looked. Through to be starving so that success. Downtown in Port Au Prince and the earthquake damage streets can seem full of working children. Rest of this is a common sight and with little evidence that there is a. We attempt to regulate all moments of what goes on. Why isnt it more of a political priority in this country i think its because this system is so ingrained into the culture that people become so desensitized to it the haitian ambassador said that haiti is too poor haiti does not have the resources necessary to combat the system and then plus he said that the system is too ingrained into the fabric of our culture that its difficult to eradicate it. America has long been haitis Biggest International fund this year alone it has sense more than 27000000. 00 to tackle the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. America is also the leading International Player in the fight against modern slavery. Yes its commitment to help haitis chance laves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. The rich countries of the north have entered trafficking units and they dont quite grasp that its all about slavery most of the slaves in the world are trafficked anywhere theyre in slave to their own community and its a shame that its taken so long for the richest countries to get a grip on this problem and really come to an understanding of it because theyre the ones who are most capable of doing so do something about it do you not feel. That with a Little International focus and almost no political will or capability in haiti itself the fight to free rest of the children from the chains of slavery is largely left to n. G. O. S. But you can also but they have found a way to erode the system it relies on the most precious and prized commodity of all in haiti education. We have to have men to toe education but until we have men that toe education i think the work sensitizing the general public or influencing the new generation i think this work is a vital. Street corners in early rush hour in Port Au Prince filled with children not working but on their way to school. Despite the fact that virtually private in haiti children from even the poorest families of finding interesting impeccably turndowns freshly laundered uniforms. And for rest of their children left on the sidelines as their cousins and friends attend lessons education is the one thing they design the most. But. Thats because we. Want this classroom is full of respect children who have been rescued by an empty slavery grant. For most if not all of the this kind of charity provision is their only chance of getting a decent and regular education. Full here to make food. 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Dont suffer continually of course. Its commitment. Good if you think its the schools and theyre not exactly the same as a 1st step. On the road in the other injustices suffered by them way in new the not to accompany a new move was only travel yet. So you know what. She does as a fun enough on the one i. Love for the while. When you consider my lad. Yes. My lad. This is. Memon and you must consider my lad on a mensch. These former rest of actual gym in an american run rescue home in Port Au Prince a reintroduce of the comforts and brigades of a home life and an education that has had a dramatic effect. Monday. In mind because we dont know if. Its moving that needs my sadness. My name is alice. But these children are the lucky ones the problem with rest of x. Is that their numbers are a solo launch and the attempts to abolish the system so relatively piecemeal. As this country tries to rebuild itself from the earthquake the real test of progress will not just be new bricks and mortar. But new hope for the children trapped in an old and been green food a slave. Ship awful games in the Single Digits this bad. Man ive yet to get back in moment to happen that theyve already lost all their bad falls short of the me lad who asked him in china then. You need to if we accept. That children being used as rest of the child slaves. Would talk about 10 percent of the haitian population i dont think i. Would have a future. Full board loudness i was about fellow. Members in bombay. Exploited men use the killing. Would take to make the charcoal that feels the furnace says that forge the steel didnt make shoes the trade that exploits them and. Penetrates Global Market slavery a 21st century evil continues to charcoal slaves on aljazeera take ferguson has been in turmoil after my Police Officer thought and done our black time after. That. Was about to make a political hole in my city where you are the state representative back in 9091 to me it was all how are you one of the guys without a gun my brother was killed my hood dont look no different to any other hood out there my whole world was kill me i saw my son in 15 years and i felt like you know at this moment i understand. The system was a bill for us im just not willing to accept the word since the legislation can i get through thats going to speak to a major new market that this bill identifies use violence as a Public Health epidemic last year we had 200. 00 murders the report of violence when it comes the youth it stretches far why. Are you aware. As a weapon of war leaves the very deep a skull those. Scars some rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about. The only witnesses who can help bring about justice aljazeera follows human rights campaigners in libya investigating right since the 2000. Unspeakable crime on aljazeera. On the normal 6 pleasure and kills at least 78 people in beirut sending a Mushroom Cloud into the sky and destructive shock waves through the city more than 4000 people are injured hospitals are overwhelmed pleading for blood supplies and generators to keep their lights on. But its morning in beirut now and these are live pictures of the optima of that explosion thats rocked the city. Hello im daryn jordan this is al jazeera blog