This report considers and informs on the real situation of women’s rights under the Convention of the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (“CEDAW”) focusing on particular issues in Haiti. The issues addressed are societal discrimination and widespread sexual violence against women, impunity for perpetrators of gender based violence and sex trafficking, exploitation of prostitution and sexual abuse by peacekeepers. The issues addressed in this report were chosen due to the specific focus and expertise of the organizations that drafted the report.

This report is submitted by MADRE (an ECOSOC accredited NGO), KOFAVIV FAVILEK, KONAMAVID, Women’s Link Worldwide, and the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, City University of New York School of Law. It focuses on the epidemic of gender-based violence in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in post-earthquake Haiti.

Ce rapport examine et informe sur la situation actuelle des droits des femmes au regard de la Convention l’élimination de toute forme de discrimination à l’égard des femmes, en se concentrant sur la situation en Haïti. Les thèmes abordés sont la discrimination sociétale, la violence sexuelle, l'impunité des auteurs de violence basée sur le genre et la traite sexuelle, l'exploitation de la prostitution, et les abus sexuels commis par des casques bleus.