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.

In May and June 2010, MADRE joined delegations coordinated by the Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) to Haiti to investigate the problem of rape and other gender-based violence in the camps. We found that women are being raped at an alarming rate-every day-in camps throughout Port-au-Prince. The Haitian Government, the UN and others in the international community have failed to adequately address the situation. Women, especially poor women, have been excluded from full participation and leadership in the relief effort.

La soumission visait à fournir des informations supplémentaires au Comité des droits de l'homme pour son examen du deuxième rapport périodique soumis par l'État haïtien lors de sa 112e session en octobre 2014. Le rapport a examiné le respect par Haïti de ses obligations en vertu du PIDCP et a documenté les violations de plusieurs articles de la Convention concernant les femmes, les filles et les personnes LGBT en Haïti.

En réponse à une demande de l'organisation populaire haïtienne KOFAVIV, des équipes de chercheurs de MADRE, de la International Women's Human Rights Clinic de la CUNY School of Law, de la NYU Global Justice Clinic et du UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies ont mené une enquête en Haïti de novembre à décembre 2011.

In response to a request from the Haitian grassroots organization KOFAVIV, teams of researchers from MADRE, the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at CUNY School of Law, NYU Global Justice Clinic and the UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies conducted a fact-finding investigation in Haiti from November to December 2011.

The submission aimed to provide supplementary information to the Human Rights Committee for its consideration of the second periodic report submitted by the Haitian State at its 112th Session in October 2014. The report examined Haiti’s compliance with its obligations under the ICCPR, and documented violations of several articles of the Convention regarding women, girls, and LGBT people in Haiti. The report also includes a series of recommendations for the government of Haiti on concrete measures the State can take to fully uphold and protect the rights of these individuals.

The report was composed by women from diverse backgrounds working both in grassroots communities in Haiti and in the international arena with the aim of ensuring women’s participation and leadership in all phases of reconstruction of Haiti. The Gender Shadow Report (GSR) provided the missing gender content of the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), the blueprint for Haiti’s reconstruction.

The report focused on violations of the rights of women and Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Bisexual (LGBT) individuals suffering violence and discrimination. The information in this report was gathered from personal interviews with Haitian activists and survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination. It is supported by reports by news agencies, governments, local Haitian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international human rights organizations.

Le rapport s'est concentré sur les violations des droits des femmes et des personnes lesbiennes, gays, transgenres et bisexuelles (LGBT) qui subissent de la violence et de la discrimination. Les informations contenues dans ce rapport ont été recueillies lors d'entretiens personnels avec des militants haïtiens et des survivants de violences et de discriminations liées au genre.