This article proposes a study of the representation of women in three of Maryse Condé's novels for young people: Rêves amers (reprint of Haïti chérie), Savannah Blues and La Belle et la Bête, a Guadeloupean version. In these fictions, Maryse Condé challenges gender stereotypes, particularly around motherhood and the figure of the potomitan or West Indian mother-courage. She also questions sexist and racist prejudices inherited from colonialism and slavery, such as the imagery of the "mulatto", the beautiful mixed-race woman of the islands.

In May and June 2010, MADRE joined delegations coordinated by the Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) to Haiti to investigate the problem of rape and other gender-based violence in the camps. We found that women are being raped at an alarming rate-every day-in camps throughout Port-au-Prince. The Haitian Government, the UN and others in the international community have failed to adequately address the situation. Women, especially poor women, have been excluded from full participation and leadership in the relief effort.

1 in 3 Haitian women and girls have experienced domestic or sexual violence. While the most direct, negative impact of this violence is on the physical and mental health of the survivor herself, the whole community suffers. Children conceived through rape are especially vulnerable. The risk of sexually transmitted disease, including HIV, is greatly increased, and economic development is also jeopardized.

En préambule à sa conférence, madame Magloire énonce quelques réflexions suscitées par le contexte haïtien de l’hiver 2008 marqué par les « émeutes de la faim ». Elle relève qu’Haïti ne vit pas un problème de famine mais d’accès aux ressources alimentaires à cause de la pauvreté endémique du pays, pauvreté dont sont majoritairement victimes les femmes. Elle dénonce aussi le fait qu’il a du y avoir violence pour que les medias médiatisent ces événements. Curieusement, les medias ont mis en scène des jeunes mais ont ignoré les premières intéressées : les femmes.

This report is submitted on behalf of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and the Komisyon Fanm Viktim pou Viktim (KOFAVIV) (Commission of Women Victims for Victims) to provide an overview of Haiti’s continuing challenges in complying with its human rights obligations relating to the protection of women and girls from gender-based violence (GBV).

La soumission visait à fournir des informations supplémentaires au Comité des droits de l'homme pour son examen du deuxième rapport périodique soumis par l'État haïtien lors de sa 112e session en octobre 2014. Le rapport a examiné le respect par Haïti de ses obligations en vertu du PIDCP et a documenté les violations de plusieurs articles de la Convention concernant les femmes, les filles et les personnes LGBT en Haïti.

En réponse à une demande de l'organisation populaire haïtienne KOFAVIV, des équipes de chercheurs de MADRE, de la International Women's Human Rights Clinic de la CUNY School of Law, de la NYU Global Justice Clinic et du UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies ont mené une enquête en Haïti de novembre à décembre 2011.

In response to a request from the Haitian grassroots organization KOFAVIV, teams of researchers from MADRE, the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at CUNY School of Law, NYU Global Justice Clinic and the UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies conducted a fact-finding investigation in Haiti from November to December 2011.