Report on U.N involvement in human trafficking and prostitution from a Haitian Women's Rights Movement
" In 2009, 950 Haitian children were trafficked across the border; after the 2010 earthquake, that number spiked to 7,300 children. 88 They are taken by traffickers who often work with corrupted local authorities – reportedly, all the officials know who the traffickers are, but don’t report them.89 The traffickers coerce their victims into prostitution, or use rape to intimidate and control the victims.90"
"Both consensual and coerced adult sex workers continue to face many challenges related to traditions, perception, and insecurity. The precarious situation of women living in post-earthquake internal displacement camps, especially for women heads of households, has driven a sex trade due to a complete lack of access to free government services and a complete destruction of their livelihoods following the earthquake. Displaced women and girls are being forced by circumstance into survival sex."
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Report on U.N involvement in human trafficking and prostitution from a Haitian Women's Rights Movement
" In 2009, 950 Haitian children were trafficked across the border; after the 2010 earthquake, that number spiked to 7,300 children. 88 They are taken by traffickers who often work with corrupted local authorities – reportedly, all the officials know who the traffickers are, but don’t report them.89 The traffickers coerce their victims into prostitution, or use rape to intimidate and control the victims.90" "Both consensual and coerced adult sex workers continue to face many challenges related to traditions, perception, and insecurity. The precarious situation of women living in post-earthquake internal displacement camps, especially for women heads of households, has driven a sex trade due to a complete lack of access to free government services and a complete destruction of their livelihoods following the earthquake. Displaced women and girls are being forced by circumstance into survival sex."