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This article contextualizes and documents the issue of increased sexual violence following the earthquake disaster that devasted the country and its people. It identifies the different obstacles to enforcing women’s human rights in Haiti and proposes different strategies for law enforcement and how Haitian officials and the international community can enforce the protection of women and children from sexual violence. By employing a comprehensive rights-based approach, it analyses the role of international lawyers enforcing women’s rights in post-earthquake Haiti. (Summary by Mouka)
This article analyses the use of rape in Haiti historically as a tool of political repression before analysing the issue of rape in a post disaster setting following the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti. Bookey describes his work in the Rape Accountability and Prevention (RAP) project, putting forth a detailed account of rape victims’ experiences and the deep physical and psychological effects on women and girls.
This text reflects on the state of post-disaster Haiti and the current feminist movement through the voices of prominent feminist leaders, mainly that of Myriam Merlet, Charles and the discussion she had with Myriam Merlet in 2009 on the issue of Haitian women as both commodities and seller of these commodities (Machan ak Machandiz). Her focus on Merlet and their discussions of women unveils nuanced commentaries on their positionalities within Haitian culture looking at how colour, class, sexualiy and the urban/rural divide shape them.
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It has been 59 years, after the arduous vindication women movements especially those leaded by the Feminine League for Social Action (in French Ligue féminine d’action sociale), they promulgated the haitian women´s political rights. Nowadays, in spite of certain changes and advances in this respect, the problem of gender inequality, especially speaking of political participation continues to be a major challenge in the haitian society.