Exclusive coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Yifat Susskind writes about Women in post-earthquake Haiti: moving beyond survival for our Women Beyond War conference.
Haitian women who are living and organising in the displacement camps, together with international partners, have produced an essential blueprint for addressing rape. If adopted by the Haitian Parliament as revisions to the Haitian legal code, this would be a major advancement in legislation addressing gender-based violence and discrimination, says Yifat Susskind.
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