Haiti’s instability at the turn of the millennium demanded unprecedented changes towards community-based peacekeeping strategies. While deemed successful by some in reducing actualised violence, the UN Peace Support Operation, MINUSTAH, was wrought with allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and mired by the inadvertent introduction of cholera. To understand the host community’s experiences with MINUSTAH, data was collected around seven UN bases from 10 locations in Haiti between June and August 2017.

In the immediate aftermath of the Haitian earthquake on January 12, 2010, the representative victim-survivor in multiple media sites appeared to the world in the face of the Haitian child-cum-orphan. This poignant image of loss and suffering lent urgency to a range of altruistic responses—or rather, paternalistic interventions—by white families in the U.S. I argue that in both narrative and practice, dominant constructions of normative (white) motherhood were exaggerated and made hypervisible, which propelled the actual lived experience of Haitian mothers further into oblivion.

Le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti a obligé la communauté internationale à se questionner sur les défis que pose une réponse humanitaire de cette envergure dans un pays fragilisé par les crises subséquentes. Les autorités haïtiennes ont rapidement été submergées par l'ampleur des besoins et la communauté internationale, avec le Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires (OCHA) en tête de file, est venue prêter main-forte à ces dernières.

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.

This dissertation explores the obstacles to women’s participation in the planning and implementation of the relief and reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Furthermore, following Molyneux (1985)’s distinction between practical gender interests and strategic gender interests, it examines the disaster management system’s ability to meet women’s practical and strategic needs. The answers to these research questions are sought drawing both on primary sources—collected through key informant interviews—and on a wide range of secondary sources.

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.