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Thinking About Ourselves and Our Future: Rural Haitian Women Organize

by Beverly Bell | May 27, 2010 at 11:34 AM

“If we rural women can organize ourselves together to form a bloc, we could accomplish a lot of things,” says Yvette Michaud, founder of the National Coordinating Committee of Peasant Women (KONAFAP b … Read More»

Treating Rape Survivors in Post-Earthquake Haiti

by jadefrank | May 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM | PotoFanm + Fi Organizing Group

By Lina Abirafeh Ms. Magazine Blog May 13, 2010 … Read More»

THE URGENCY OF HOUSING IN HAITI: FIRST PRIORITY IN ADDRESSING WIDESPREAD RAPE (PART I) Beverly Bell

by JanetF | May 4, 2010 at 11:37 PM | PotoFanm + Fi Organizing Group

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/the-urgency-of-housing-in_b_5... THE URGENCY OF HOUSING IN HAITI: FIRST PRIORITY IN ADDRESSING WIDESPREAD RAPE (PART I) By Beverly Bell … Read More»

The Urgency of Housing in Haiti: First Priority in Addressing Widespread Rape (Part I)

by Beverly Bell | May 4, 2010 at 11:19 AM

The 7.3 earthquake which struck Haiti on January 12 was only the start of Haiti’s most recent catastrophe. … Read More»

VIDEO- Haitian women testify about rape in the camps

by alicebacker | May 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM | PotoFanm + Fi Organizing Group

From our blog: http://www.potofanm.org/2010/05/haitian-women-testify-about-rape-in.html … Read More»

A note from Protection Cluster on giving women Cash for Work to do GBV activies and caring for kids in camps...

by acdadesky | April 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM | PotoFanm + Fi Organizing Group

HI all, … Read More»

"Our Bodies are Shaking Now" - Rape Follows Earthquake in Haiti

by Beverly Bell | March 24, 2010 at 8:24 AM

“The way you saw the earth shake, that’s how our bodies are shaking now,” said a member of the grassroots anti-violence group Commission of Women Victim-to-Victim (KOFAVIV by its Creole acronym). … Read More»

burma women's tribunal testimony

by Edith Mirante | March 13, 2010 at 6:13 PM | The Burma Cafe

March 5, OpenDemocracy.net This is my witness - Emily Stokes The human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma. … Read More»

burma women's tribunal testimony

by Edith Mirante | March 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM

March 5, OpenDemocracy.net This is my witness - Emily Stokes The human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma. … Read More»

Self Defense for the Haitian Woman

by Carolyn | March 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM

Very important is it for us tap into the feelings of that naked insecurity we all as women once felt at one or more times in our lives. … Read More»