By Pascale Solages and Sasha Filippova
‘The transitional government and its international partners owe Haiti’s women and girls more.’
Haiti’s transitional government is promising to restore democracy, human rights, and stability after years of crisis, but in practice it is excluding women and ignoring their distinct needs. It is thus on course to perpetuate long-standing patterns of discrimination that have historically left Haiti’s women at the margins of public life and made them objects of endemic gender-based violence (GBV). Global experience indicates that this policy failing will also weaken Haiti’s transition as a whole.