Objectives: Limited research following disasters suggests that internally displaced women are disproportionately vulnerable to violence and abuse. An interdisciplinary collaborative of researchers and practitioners in Haiti, the US Virgin Islands, and the US Mainland investigated gender-based violence (GBV) pre- and post-earthquake and health outcomes among Haitian women living in tent cities/camps following the 2010 earthquake.

During conflict and disasters, women and girls are at increased risk of gender based violence. International humanitarian guidelines call for the distribution of individual lighting to meet women and girls’ basic needs and to reduce risk of violence; however, little evidence exists to support these guidelines. This paper presents an evaluation of handheld solar light use, retention, and durability among women and girls living in two internally displaced persons camps in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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En créole, l’expression kanpe signifie « se tenir debout ». C’est ce que fait continuellement le mouvement féministe haïtien. On montre ici la volonté des féministes participer à la reconstruction du pays après le séisme de janvier 2010, et ce, en relation avec l’aide internationale. Les féministes haïtiennes doivent affronter l’imposition des idées de ces organisations au détriment de leurs propres projets. Au niveau national, elles tentent de faire reconnaître les actions persistantes des femmes dans l’histoire haïtienne comme leur lutte pour la construction démocratique du pays.

This Article examines women's and girls' struggles in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake. In particular, it focuses on the grievous conditions in the displacement camps that foster gender-based violence and abuse, often perpetrated by members of armed groups or prison escapees. Indeed, the lack of lighting, private sanitary facilities, secure shelters, and police patrols in the encampment areas endanger women's and girls' safety.

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This paper chronicles the advocacy approach behind the broader human rights “Campaign to end the epidemic of rape in Haiti”. This campaign has succeeded in opening political and policymaking spaces previously closed to Haitian grassroots women activists and collectives and generated a landmark legal decision. The advances reflect a model in which the expertise of an international women’s human rights organization is mobilized in the service of a community-based women’s group.

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf's discomforting book investigates sexual misconduct by military peacekeepers and abuses perpetrated by civilian peacekeepers and non-UN civilian interveners.

This document is a draft of a book chapter written in 2003, for a series of books on women's human rights, the series was cancelled, so this chapter has never been published. The chapter should be useful for scholars and immigration advocates interested in gender-related violence in Haiti in general, and politically-motivated rape betweem 1991 and 1994 in particular.

Un mouvement social revendicateur d’une grande intensité (lutte contre la corruption, contre la dilapidation des fonds PétroCaribe, contre l’impunité, contr secoue Ayiti depuis presque deux ans maintenant.

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