Haiti’s Female US Garment Workers Exploited for Sex, Denied Labor Rights
To get or keep a job, women are expected to have sex with a male manager.
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Haiti, the least developed country in the Western hemisphere, has promoted itself as a cheap and available destination for US clothing brands. Still, activists say conditions at the country’s 41 garment factories are akin to prison camps, with non-existent labor rights and rampant sexual abuse, reports The Guardian. A 2021 report from Better Work Haiti, a labor compliance group, backed by the International Labor Organization and the World Bank, also found that 80 percent of workers and their families have had to cut down on meals. It also found that 96 percent of factories surveyed failed to comply with Haiti’s health insurance and social security contribution requirements, putting workers’ lives at risk.
