The International Development Committee’s (IDC) inquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and related misconduct in the humanitarian sector is welcomed. This submission addresses the IDC’s examination of the measures and suggests changes necessary to establish effective safeguarding policies and processes.

This document is a draft of a book chapter written in 2003, for a series of books on women's human rights, the series was cancelled, so this chapter has never been published. The chapter should be useful for scholars and immigration advocates interested in gender-related violence in Haiti in general, and politically-motivated rape betweem 1991 and 1994 in particular.