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PORT-AU-PRINCE (TrustLaw) - In response to an increase of sexual violence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, Thomson Reuters Foundation has held a forum of government officials, police, lawyers, prosecutors, doctors and women's groups to tackle the scourge.
The aims of the unprecedented gathering received bipartisan backing both from President-elect Michel Martelly and the head of the majority party in parliament.
The event was part of the Haiti in Focus initiative, which aims to put the Foundation's free legal, humanitarian and media programmes to work in 2011 for Haiti's recovery.
For more information on the project, and for special coverage of the problem of sexual violence in post-quake Haiti, see the links below.
NEWS
Haiti's rulers back TrustLaw anti-rape project
What the anti-rape forum agreed on
BLOGS
Haitian justice struggles to cope with rape epidemic
Lawyer says rape cases have tripled since the quake
MULTIMEDIA
VIDEO: Haiti's new president welcomes TrustLaw anti-rape project
SLIDESHOW: Thomson Reuters Foundation hosts anti-rape forum in Haiti
VIDEO: Rape in the camps: Sexual violence in Haiti after the earthquake
VIDEO: Haiti's new president welcomes TrustLaw anti-rape project
VIDEO: Pro bono lawyer fights sexual violence in Haiti
VIDEO: One Day in Port-au-Prince: The sex worker
USEFUL LINKS
Amnesty international report on sexual violence against women in camps (January 2011)
Al Jazeera TV report on sexual violence (January 2011)
Le Nouvelliste article on May 6th Forum (May 2011)
Our bodies are still trembling: Haitian women's fight against rape (July 2010)
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