Haiti: Sexual violence against women increasing, says Amnesty

Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence, Amnesty International has said in a new report. One year after the earthquake which killed 230,000 people and injured 300,000, more than one million people still live in appalling conditions in tent cities in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the south of Haiti, where women are at serious risk of sexual attacks. Those responsible are predominately armed men who roam the camps after dark.