Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 - Haiti |Publisher||United
States Department of State| |Publication Date||14 June 2010|
|Cite as||United States Department of State, Trafficking in
Persons Report 2010 - Haiti, 14 June 2010, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4da54f0e1a.html [accessed 23 May
2013]| HAITI (Special Case) In the months prior to the January
12, 2010 earthquake, the Government of Haiti had made limited
anti-trafficking progress; prospects for additional, future
progress were greatly impeded by the earthquake, which killed
over 230,000 people, displaced 1.3 million people, including at
least half a million children, and destroyed much of Port au
Prince, including much of the government's infrastructure. The
limited capacity of Haitian state institutions to respond to
human trafficking was further weakened by the earthquake's
monumental damage. Haiti remains a Special Case for the fifth
consecutive year as the earthquake derailed government efforts
to address the significant challenges fac