Title

The Double Weakness of Girls: Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Haiti

Authors

Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Golden Gate University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

This Note is about poverty, inequality, and sexual violence. Using empirical research, it explores cultural beliefs, practices of abuse, and criminal justice responses to the widespread and systematic rape affecting girls in the shantytowns of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dominated by the vestiges of the French colonization and plagued by destitution and political instability, Haiti faces rampant violence and disarray leaving the majority of its population in unbearable conditions of despair. Often regarded as a pariah state by the international community and erratically supported or invaded by foreign players, Haiti remains a forgotten country despoiled by human rights violations, decadence, and turmoil.

Comments

Published with permission of Stanford Journal of International Law.

3 April 2012:
This article has been removed due to pending publication in a book titled, From Gender-Based Violence to Women's Violence in Haiti, by Benedetta Faedi Duramy, due out in 2014.

Recommended Citation

44 Stanford J. Int'l. Law 147 (2008)