Event: "Crisis in Haiti: Women’s Rights Defenders on the Struggle for Women’s Rights"
On March 20, 2024 the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law hosted the event, "Crisis in Haiti: Women’s Rights Defenders on the Struggle for Women’s Rights."
In the context of a multidimensional crisis in Haiti and the growing control by gangs of large areas of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian population is regularly subjected to widespread violence and gross human rights violations. In the past years, Haitian civil society organizations and international organizations have reported patterns of sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls by armed gangs to expand their influence and control over the territory.
In recent weeks, with the intensification of the political and security crisis and a new wave of gang-related violence, including attacks against police stations, the Port-au-Prince airport, and the evasion of thousands of prisoners, the population has been forced to flee their houses or shelter in place while political negotiations are ongoing.
The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the War Crimes Research Office, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHRC) is pleased to invite the President of the IAHRC and two Haitian women’s rights defenders to hear first-hand about the impact of the acute human rights situation on women and the struggle to protect and defend their rights.
Panelists: Roberta Clarke, President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Rosy Auguste Ducéna, Lawyer, Program Manager, Haitian National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), and Lovely Jean-Louis, Lawyer, Legal Affairs Director, Collective of Lawyers specialized in human rights strategic litigation (CALSDH).
Moderator: Claudia Martin, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.
Sponsored by: Join the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the War Crimes Research Office, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHRC).