ActionAid Haiti
Port-au-Prince – Women are taking to the streets in Haiti to protest against soaring levels of violence, kidnapping, rape and torture since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and escalating political crisis.
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), ActionAid Haiti’s partners Mouvement of Peasant in Papaye (MPP) and Organisation des Femmes Solidaires d’Haïti (OFASOH) are organising rallies in Plateau Central and Cap-Haitian to highlight the shocking spike in gender-based violence, and demand fair, free elections and an end to corruption.
It comes as Haitians continue to protest over the President’s refusal to standdown on 7 February, at the end of his five-year term in office. The constitutional crisis, deteriorating security, rising poverty and Covid-19 restrictions, have triggered an increase in criminality and violence against women and girls.