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Caribbean

Within this sub-region, PeaceWomen is currently monitoring 1 country (Haiti). The Caribbean has countries with both high (Barbados 42) and low (Haiti 145) levels of human development. Many countries in the Caribbean are not on the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), (including Haiti) but those who are rank from Trinidad and Tobago at 21 to the Dominican Republic (Haiti’s neighbor) at 73.

Currently, there is one United Nations peacekeeping mission in the region, the United Nations Mission in the sub region (Haiti MINUSTAH).

For information on National Action Plans in the region for SCR 1325, please click here.

 

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  • January 24, 2012 (Google News)
    HAITI: UN Considers Peacekeeper Sex Abuse Blacklist The United Nations may set up a sex abuse blacklist of countries whose peacekeepers will be banned from UN missions, a top official said after two new cases were reported in Haiti.
  • January 24, 2012 (Human Rights Watch)
    HAITI: A Chance for Congress to Help Haitian Women Haiti's Ministry of Women's Affairs will soon introduce comprehensive legislation to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in Haiti. This week, [Monday] members of the US Congress backed this effort by introducing a resolution to support the bill. Representatives from both parties should vote to adopt this resolution.
  • January 23, 2012 (IPS)
    HAITI: U.N. "Outraged" at Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers - for the third time in five years.
  • January 12, 2012 (Women News Network)
    HAITI: Sexual Violence in Haiti's Displacement Camps Still 'Rampant' Says New Report In a combined effort to get vital information out to the public covering ongoing conditions for women and girls' safety in Haiti on the second anniversary of the crisis that hit the region causing over 608,000 people to become homeless, human rights advocacy group for women – MADRE – has teamed up with on-the-ground legal experts and women's advocates in Haiti to release a new report, “Struggling to Survive – Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Women and Girls in Port au Prince, Haiti.”
  • January 12, 2012 (Huffington Post)
    HAITI: Two Years Later, Where Did The Money Go? Women's rights is one example of huge problems and work ahead, and yet it also shows why no one should give up on Haiti. Groundbreaking work is being done to promote the rights of women and girls -- who have suffered immeasurably in Haiti's disasters and instability -- through new legislation.

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