Les Nations Unies considèrent les femmes comme acteur principal du développement et appellent à la responsabilité de tous pour prévenir et éliminer la discrimination et la violence basée sur le genre qui affecte une femme sur quatre en Haïti. De plus, les femmes sont plus vulnérables à la précarité du travail et aux discriminations liées aux rôles sociaux et à la maternité.

Pour donner suite à la résolution 1999/77 de la Commission des droits de l'homme, intitulée "Situation des droits de l'homme en Haïti", dans laquelle la Commission invitait de nouveau la Rapporteuse spéciale sur la violence contre les femmes, y compris ses causes et ses conséquences, à envisager favorablement l'invitation du Gouvernement haïtien à se rendre dans ce pays, la Rapporteuse spéciale a effectué une visite en Haïti du 14 au 17 juin 1999.

The UN maintains a zero-tolerance policy on sexual interactions between peacekeepers and beneficiaries of assistance. Our research describes the lived experience of engaging sexually with UN peacekeepers during Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haiti (MINUSTAH) from the perspectives of Haitian women/girls. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with Haitian women raising children fathered by MINUSTAH peacekeepers. Transcripts were analyzed according to empirical phenomenology.Adverse socio-economic conditions were key contextual factors.

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti sent shockwaves across the world, triggering an unprecedented international response. In the months that followed, international news, legal, development, human rights, and solidarity agencies highlighted the issue of gender-based violence, which has by all accounts increased since the earthquake. Despite activists' nuanced understanding and efforts, official responses have been inadequate while reproducing troubling, albeit familiar, discourses that tend to trigger either denial or demonization.

This article examines post-earthquake conditions in Haiti, which have left women and girls in a heightened state of vulnerability, as well as the ineffectiveness of the U.N. and government to uphold obligations under international law to include grassroots women’s leadership in the planning and implementation sessions to address sexual violence in displacement camps. It provides a brief overview of pre- and post-earthquake responses to sexual violence in Haiti, and then an overview of sexual violence and the vulnerability of women and girls since the earthquake.

This document is a response to a questionnaire from a Doctors Without Borders representative from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti on the question of the legal framework of sexual violence in Haiti. This document thoroughly analyzes the laws surrounding sexual violence and rape as well as the legal proceedings expected in certain situations and cases.

Throughout the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), supporters of the armed invasion pointed toward the transportation infrastructure as the principal contribution of the intervention. Although many of the thoroughfares were built using forced labor, Haitian-American contact on roads, bridges, and railways blurred the boundaries between the occupied and the occupiers.

A preliminary independent investigation conducted in areas close to existing or abandoned bases for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) brings to light the alarming magnitude of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) at the hands of United Nations personnel in Haiti. The purpose of this investigation is to determine if the initial unreported cases brought to the attention of the author were isolated incidents or are instead a result of a systemic problem present in the UN's mission in Haiti.

This document is based on a study executed in Haiti in January 1989 by the Consultant, Donna Plotkin. It responds to subregional concerns about the lack of data relating to women’s economic contribution to development. This study is part of the project “The Establishment of a Data Base on Women’s Participation in Social and Economic Change, Phase II” funded by the Government of the Netherlands.

Haitians continue to rebuild following the devastating earthquake in 2010, as many also strive to recover and heal from associated horrific events. Immediately following the earthquake, domestic and international agencies reported dramatic increases in violence against women and girls in this small Caribbean nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. In this article we highlight one segment of a situational analysis used as groundwork for developing an intervention to address gender-based violence (GBV).