[News] Haitian Women Targets of US/UN Occupation! 1/10 & 1/11 events

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Rape is a War Crime:

Haitian Women Targets of US/UN Occupation!



Speakers:     Athena Kolbe and Royce Hutson

                       Wayne State University 
researchers highlight Haiti sexual assaults during US-backed occupation



Wednesday, January 10      7PM

San Francisco Women’s Building

3543 – 18th St, San Francisco

  Wheelchair accessible  $5-7 no one turned away for lack of funds

Sponsor: Haiti Action Committee



Thursday, January 11      7PM

Redwoods Presbyterian Church

110 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur

Wheelchair accessible $5-10 no one turned away for lack of funds

Sponsor: Marin Interfaith Task Force

                  (415) 924-3227



Researchers Athena Kolbe and Royce Hutson will 
speak about sexual assault and violence against 
Haitian women and girls by forces such as police 
and paramilitary troops following the 2004 US-led 
coup d’etat that removed the President, 
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Haiti’s democratically-elected government.



Their study, published in the prestigious Lancet 
British medical journal in September 2006, found 
that 8,000 people were murdered and 35,000 women 
and girls were sexually assaulted in 
Port-au-Prince during the 22-month period 
following the coup. The study implicates UN 
soldiers in threats of violence and sexual assault on the population.



Rape of women during war is a global issue, 
recognized - as a result of mass rapes in 
Yugoslavia and Rwanda - as a form of torture. 
Learn more about the pattern of gender-based 
violence in Haiti fueled by the US-backed 
occupation, and what you can do about it.



For more information, contact Haiti Action Committee at (510) 483-7481

<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/>www.haitisolidarity.net    www.haitiaction.net





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