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“Eradicating child-slavery, advocating for children’s rights” – Jean-Robert Cadet

Peace Fellowship hosts Jean-Robert Cadet for a chapel forum.

Jean-Robert Cadet, a former Haitian child-slave, is now working to eradicate child-slavery in his native country. Jean-Robert is an advocate for children鈥檚 rights all over the world 鈥 working closely with the UN multiple times to form anti-human-trafficking policies and statements, the US Congress, the Oslo Freedom Forum as a keynote speaker, and addressed the International Department of Oxford University, Yale University, and Duke University. He has been featured on Oprah, 60-Minutes and CNN. Cadet is the author of 鈥淩estavek鈥 and 鈥淢y Stone of Hope鈥 鈥 books about his life as a child-slave and his current work in fighting the system he had been caught in as a child! His main focus is working towards change through education.