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![]() | Traumatised Haitians struggle to comprehend grim fate |
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- It's not immediately clear where the crowd gathered in prayer ends and where the refugee encampment begins, as one group of listless, traumatised people bleeds into another. With a symbol of state strength, Haiti's once magnificent National Palace, lying in ruins behin [read at Caribbean Net News] | |
Keisha (guest)
2010-01-29 11:11:46
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7098443/Haiti-criminals-raping-women-and-girls-in-camps.html
Haiti: criminals 'raping women and girls in camps!
Haiti's police chief has said that bandits were preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps set up in the capital after the disaster.
WHY are Haitian Men Raping?
I see the Men trample babies & old peope on
the tv news, they push to front of the lines
to get food first before women and children!
The Haitian Women are already devastated
by the earthquakes! Now it's Rape,
Why do some Men do this
evil thing?
Janet (guest)
2010-01-29 13:02:27
Haitian women lose out in post-quake "survival of the strongest"
LONDON (AlertNet) - In one of the camps sheltering the homeless in Haiti's earthquake-stricken capital, a group of male volunteers stands guard over hundreds of teenage girls and young women as they sleep during the night.
The women there are so afraid of being attacked that they have organised the protection themselves, according to ActionAid, which says several women have already reported cases of rape or sexual abuse to their staff in the camp.
Elsewhere in Port-au-Prince, women have left food lines empty-handed after groups of men raided food distribution sites watched by police who were too few and too powerless to stop them.
"Unfortunately, it's like every catastrophe. It becomes Darwinistic - where the strongest have access to food, water and medicine, and the most vulnerable -- which are unfortunately still women and children -- don't necessarily have the physical force to last in those lines," said Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now, a U.S.-based rights group.
Aid workers and human rights activists are increasingly worried that in a country where women's rights are routinely trampled upon or ignored, women are again being marginalised. This time, losing out on their fair share of desperately-needed aid following the devastating quake that killed up to 200,000 people and left nearly 1 million more homeless in the Caribbean island nation.
The inequality is more acute when you consider that 48 percent of the households are headed by women, who are not only taking care of the children but probably elderly members of the family too, said Haiti researcher at Amnesty International, Gerardo Ducos.
"It is important that women are targeted as the direct recipients of aid. It can make a big difference in ensuring they receive what they deserve, but also the children receive what is intended for them," Ducos told AlertNet.
http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/57964/2010/00/29-162402-1.htm
LONDON (AlertNet) - In one of the camps sheltering the homeless in Haiti's earthquake-stricken capital, a group of male volunteers stands guard over hundreds of teenage girls and young women as they sleep during the night.
The women there are so afraid of being attacked that they have organised the protection themselves, according to ActionAid, which says several women have already reported cases of rape or sexual abuse to their staff in the camp.
Elsewhere in Port-au-Prince, women have left food lines empty-handed after groups of men raided food distribution sites watched by police who were too few and too powerless to stop them.
"Unfortunately, it's like every catastrophe. It becomes Darwinistic - where the strongest have access to food, water and medicine, and the most vulnerable -- which are unfortunately still women and children -- don't necessarily have the physical force to last in those lines," said Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now, a U.S.-based rights group.
Aid workers and human rights activists are increasingly worried that in a country where women's rights are routinely trampled upon or ignored, women are again being marginalised. This time, losing out on their fair share of desperately-needed aid following the devastating quake that killed up to 200,000 people and left nearly 1 million more homeless in the Caribbean island nation.
The inequality is more acute when you consider that 48 percent of the households are headed by women, who are not only taking care of the children but probably elderly members of the family too, said Haiti researcher at Amnesty International, Gerardo Ducos.
"It is important that women are targeted as the direct recipients of aid. It can make a big difference in ensuring they receive what they deserve, but also the children receive what is intended for them," Ducos told AlertNet.
http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/57964/2010/00/29-162402-1.htm
Ralph (guest)
2010-01-29 13:03:55
That's the way of the world.
Men rule. We can do what we want.
Westerners & womens rights groups
need to stay out of Haiti's business.
Men rule. We can do what we want.
Westerners & womens rights groups
need to stay out of Haiti's business.
steel drum (guest)
2010-01-30 21:10:38
Ralph, you are the most ignorant person on this earth. That's the way of the world, Men rule, did you fall from a mango tree? I do not think you came from a woman.
Some of these Haitian men should be shot, now is the time they should show the world that they are humans they continue to be the selfish bastards that they are.
Your mother must have dropped you on your head when you were a baby.
Some of these Haitian men should be shot, now is the time they should show the world that they are humans they continue to be the selfish bastards that they are.
Your mother must have dropped you on your head when you were a baby.
kenneth (guest)
2010-02-01 17:35:21
Horrible!
Daniel (guest)
2010-02-07 20:03:49
haitian men & women have a big responsiblity problem,
they crude & butto people. Instead of preventing unwanted pregnancies.
They give their children away to strangers & don't want them back!
http://www.haitixchange.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/2150/
Pregnant (again) and poor - A Haitian woman’s story
For all the American and international efforts to fight global poverty, one thing is clear: Those efforts won’t get far as long as women like Nahomie Nercure continue to have 10 children.
Global family-planning efforts have stalled over the last couple of decades, and Nahomie is emblematic both of the lost momentum and of the poverty that results. She is an intelligent 30-year-old woman who wanted only two children, yet now she is eight months pregnant with her 10th.
As we walked through Cité Soleil, the Haitian slum where she lives, her elementary-school-age children ran stark naked around her. The $6-a-month rental shack that they live in — four sleep on the bed, six on the floor beside it — has no food of any kind in it. The family has difficulty paying the fees to keep the children in school.
There’s simply no way to elevate Nahomie’s family, and millions like it around the world, unless we help such women have fewer children. And yet family-planning programs have been shorn of resources and glamour for a generation now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249280/The-child-snatchers-U-S-missionaries-accused-stealing-orphans-Haiti-quake-0-shocking-parents-dont-want-back.html#ixzz0etx5xdCL
The child snatchers: U.S. missionaries accused of 'stealing orphans' from Haiti, but most shocking of all - their parents don't want them back!
This week Georg Willeit, an SOS worker who welcomed the children there, said they are emotionally traumatised from their experience.
One boy has told staff he will never go back to his mother because she gave him away. Another girl talks repeatedly about the bus journey, before bursting into tears. As for Benatide, a lot of the time she stays silent and deep in thought. Every day, she begs to make a call to her brother.
How long it will take her and the others to recover, no one knows. As Mr Willeit says: 'The children must be made to feel safe again. They need a routine with care and attention given to them. They know they were given away by their mothers or fathers.
they crude & butto people. Instead of preventing unwanted pregnancies.
They give their children away to strangers & don't want them back!
http://www.haitixchange.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/2150/
Pregnant (again) and poor - A Haitian woman’s story
For all the American and international efforts to fight global poverty, one thing is clear: Those efforts won’t get far as long as women like Nahomie Nercure continue to have 10 children.
Global family-planning efforts have stalled over the last couple of decades, and Nahomie is emblematic both of the lost momentum and of the poverty that results. She is an intelligent 30-year-old woman who wanted only two children, yet now she is eight months pregnant with her 10th.
As we walked through Cité Soleil, the Haitian slum where she lives, her elementary-school-age children ran stark naked around her. The $6-a-month rental shack that they live in — four sleep on the bed, six on the floor beside it — has no food of any kind in it. The family has difficulty paying the fees to keep the children in school.
There’s simply no way to elevate Nahomie’s family, and millions like it around the world, unless we help such women have fewer children. And yet family-planning programs have been shorn of resources and glamour for a generation now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249280/The-child-snatchers-U-S-missionaries-accused-stealing-orphans-Haiti-quake-0-shocking-parents-dont-want-back.html#ixzz0etx5xdCL
The child snatchers: U.S. missionaries accused of 'stealing orphans' from Haiti, but most shocking of all - their parents don't want them back!
This week Georg Willeit, an SOS worker who welcomed the children there, said they are emotionally traumatised from their experience.
One boy has told staff he will never go back to his mother because she gave him away. Another girl talks repeatedly about the bus journey, before bursting into tears. As for Benatide, a lot of the time she stays silent and deep in thought. Every day, she begs to make a call to her brother.
How long it will take her and the others to recover, no one knows. As Mr Willeit says: 'The children must be made to feel safe again. They need a routine with care and attention given to them. They know they were given away by their mothers or fathers.
Fritz Atlanta (guest)
2010-02-07 20:21:28
She has 10 children and She'll probably
give them away as restaveks, orphans or slaves because
she can't feed them all!
All that ignorant woman has to do
get up off of her back, put panties back
on,close her legs & take care of the children that she has!
She's lazy, ignorant
and the USA is stupid for helping stupid women like her
instead of the real victims of the earthqakes.
Haiti is not really free.
When you sell & give your
children away to be slaves like that.
Mentally You are still nothing but a irresponsible slave.
give them away as restaveks, orphans or slaves because
she can't feed them all!
All that ignorant woman has to do
get up off of her back, put panties back
on,close her legs & take care of the children that she has!
She's lazy, ignorant
and the USA is stupid for helping stupid women like her
instead of the real victims of the earthqakes.
Haiti is not really free.
When you sell & give your
children away to be slaves like that.
Mentally You are still nothing but a irresponsible slave.
































