Beyond Shock: Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Progress, Challenges and Emerging Trends 2010-2012 (abridged version)

The report examines access to comprehensive services for victims in security, housing, reporting, research, post-rape health care, legal justice, prevention, education and advocacy, and the position of vulnerable groups including girls, men and boys, sex workers and people with disabilities. It was produced by Haitian and US members of the coalition, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, and builds on a PotoFi survey of over 2000 adolescents and families begun in October 2011 with seven Haitian partners in the Port-au-Prince and Jacmel zones. It confirms that gender-based violence and rape spiked after the earthquake, that officially reported cases declined from early 2011 while the unofficial picture shows a steady increase, and that adolescents and younger girls make up over 60% of reported rape cases.

It states that less than 1% of Haiti recovery funds from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank went to sexual violence programs. It names youth, economic vulnerability and gender as the broad risk factors, with housing shortages, rising food insecurity and a 2012 surge in urban crime and gang activity as specific factors.