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...drawn attention recently for his charity work. Jean, who was born in Haiti and founded the YĆ©le Haiti Foundation in 2005, has worked to help the Haiti recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake, which devastated the small island nation...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Honors Hip-Hop Artist for Relief Efforts | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...missionaries who were arrested in Haiti last month for allegedly abducting children no doubt consider themselves Christian martyrs. When a TIME reporter visited the Idaho Baptists recently in their squalid, rusted jail cells in Port-au-Prince and asked about their predicament, their unsurprising, biblical response was, "The Philistines won, the Philistines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...question now is whether their high-profile detention has put the fear of God into others who might think it's O.K. to take Haitian kids without lawful process - even if the intent is to give them refuge and more hopeful lives after a disaster as horrific as Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. (See TIME's comprehensive coverage of the earthquake in Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...Marie de la Soudiere wants to make sure that folks like the missionaries don't get many more chances to even try it. As coordinator of the separated-children program in Haiti for UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund, de la Soudiere recently initiated a campaign to register Haitian youths, who were among the world's most vulnerable to trafficking even before the quake. The registry will be much like the one crafted in the wake of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004, but its purpose is more far-reaching than reuniting lost kids with relatives. The Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...That's understandable thinking in Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, where children are frequently given up by their destitute parents. Those kids are all too often funneled to more-affluent families who turn them into slaves, known in Creole as restaveks, or to outright traffickers who force them into lives of prostitution in Haiti and abroad. The Haitian government estimates that there are about 300,000 restaveks in Haiti today. In many cases before and after the quake, parents and orphanages have delivered their kids to well-meaning but naive foreigners like the Idaho missionaries, who were collared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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