Sexual violence in Haiti ‘increasing’
Amnesty International says incidences of rape on the rise in camps for the displaced.
Published On 6 Jan 2011
The risk of rape and sexual violence has increased dramatically in the camps housing hundreds of thousands of Haitian women and girls, a new report from Amnesty International says.
The news comes a year after the country’s devastating earthquake left more than a million people homeless.
Aid groups in Haiti have been trying to help women combat the threats.
But as Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports from Haiti, conditions in the camps and a weak justice system have made their mission more challenging.
Source: Al Jazeera