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In the world today, the existence of human rights abuses still continues to exist. These human rights abuses are salient issues that, in some parts of the world, are not appropriately treated. The country Haiti carries the tradition of child-slavery. Restavek, ‘to stay with’, is the name given to the estimated 300,000 child slaves in Haiti. However, child-slavery is not only confined within that country, as the detection of restaveks in the Haitian-American community in Miami has become stronger in the last few years. Most Restaveks work in terrible conditions – up to 18 hour days, which include cooking, cleaning and many, are sexually abused. However, many ‘host’ families think they are doing a positive thing for the children, “What we’ve done is help her”, speaks Michelle Dornevel who ‘hosted’ a child-slave who was made to work extremely hard doing very dirty jobs. The U.S. is working to stop traditions like child-slavery flourish in America. Finally Haitians are starting to learn that slavery does not belong the United Stares of America. Approximately 10,000 young Nepali girls are annually sold to brothels in Indian cities. The consequence of this flow of Nepali girls into Indian whorehouses is a backw