Les femmes et les filles haïtiennes subissent de multiples formes de violence à la frontière dominicale haïtienne, que ce soit en tant que migrantes, commerçantes transfrontalières ou personnes déplacées à la suite du tremblement de terre de 2010 en Haïti. Les médias internationaux ont attiré l'attention sur les violences sexuelles contre les femmes dans les camps de déplacés internes en Haïti, détournant involontairement le regard du public d'autres scénarios tout aussi graves, comme la situation des femmes et des filles qui traversent la frontière.

Haitian women and girls experience multiple forms of violence on the Dominican-Haitian border whether as migrants, cross-border traders, or displaced persons following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. International media have drawn attention to sexual violence against women in internal displacement camps in Haiti, unintentionally diverting the public gaze from other, equally grave scenarios, such as the situation of women and girls who cross the border.

The 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti have given a push to women’s migration to the Dominican Republic, and risk of being trafficked.

Crossing the Dominican–Haitian border in greater numbers than previously, Haitian women and girls, many of whom have been forcibly displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, make multiple decisions about where to go and whom to trust. Thus they are in contact with informal scouts and other agents, while seeking employment as vendors in the frontier market, domestic workers in private homes, and sex workers in brothels in the Dominican Republic.