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.

Haitian women and girls began last year bereaved, traumatized, injured and displaced by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Over the past twelve months, as they have sought to begin to rebuild from the disaster and tend to the many vulnerable children, disabled and elderly people in their care, the women of Haiti have faced another catastrophe: an epidemic of sexual violence.