Struggling to Survive: Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Women and Girls in Port au Prince, Haiti
Categories: Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies
Sub-Categories: Human Development, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: Haiti
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Year: 2012
Citation: Struggling to Survive: Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Women and Girls in Port au Prince, Haiti. KOFAVIV, MADRE, The City University of New York School of Law, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, 2012.
Sub-Categories: Human Development, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: Haiti
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Year: 2012
Citation: Struggling to Survive: Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Women and Girls in Port au Prince, Haiti. KOFAVIV, MADRE, The City University of New York School of Law, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, 2012.
Abstract
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. The endeavor aimed to investigate the problem of sexual exploitation in the post-earthquake setting; identify its causes and consequences; provide a critical analysis of the existing responses from both the Haitian government and the international community to sexual exploitation. This report presented the findings of the investigation, and put forth concrete recommendations to the Haitian government and other actors to develop more effective and holistic responses in addressing the issue of sexual exploitation in Haiti.