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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sophie Cousins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Sex for a job: the scandal of Haiti’s exploited US garment workers

A garment workers counts facemasks for packing.
Haiti has promoted itself as having a cheap and available workforce for US clothing brands seeking low-cost suppliers. Photograph: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP

Marie says she was less than a month into her job at a garment factory in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, making clothes for a range of well-known US brands, when the factory’s head of security gave her an ultimatum: have sex with him or be fired.

The 24-year-old says she had little choice. She relies on her job to support her four-year-old son after both her father and husband died.

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