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CHRGJ Survey Suggests Alarming Levels of Sexual Violence in Haiti’s IDP Camps

March 16, 2011- An alarmingly high proportion of households surveyed in Haiti’s camps for the internally displaced (IDP) have been victimized by sexual violence since the earthquake, said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) in a briefing paper released today. The Center—based at NYU School of Law—released the paper just days before Haitians are set to return to the polls to vote in a Presidential run-off. The paper makes public the preliminary findings of its survey on gender-based violence and access to food and water, conducted in January 2011 in several IDP camps in Port-au-Prince. The findings add weight to what human rights groups and victims groups have been saying for several months now: that sexual violence and the fear of sexual violence are common in the camps and that significant changes in security and access to basic resources are required. “Since the earthquake, women’s groups have been receiving daily reports of sexual assault occurring while women engage in ordinary activities, such as walking to gather water or washing in the morning,” said Margaret Satterthwaite, a Faculty Director at CHRGJ and the Principal Investigator for the survey. “The results of this survey amplify these reports through empirical data and suggest that immediate action is needed to prevent further assaults.”

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CHRGJ Publishes Briefing Paper on Sexual Violence in Haiti's IDP Camps

March 16, 2011- In January 2011, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law conducted a survey of households in four camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This briefing paper presents preliminary data from the survey,focusing on reported incidents of sexual violence. An alarming 14% of households surveyed reported that, since the earthquake, one or more members of their household had been victimized by rape or unwanted touching or both.

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March 16, 2011- En janvier 2011, le Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) de la NYU School of Law a mené un sondage auprès des ménages dans quatre camps de déplacés internes au sein et autour de Port-au-Prince, à Haïti. Ce document d’information présente les données préliminaires de l’enquête et met l’accent principalement sur les incidents de violence sexuelle signalés. Un pourcentage alarmant de 14 % des ménages interrogés ont rapporté que depuis le tremblement de terre, un ou plusieurs membres de leur ménage ont été victimes de viol, d’attouchements ou des deux à la fois.

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HIGHLIGHT FROM THE CENTER

Faculty Co-Chair, Philip Alston, Interviewed in the Oxford Journal:"The Challenges of Responding to Extrajudicial Executions"

January 5, 2011- In our continuing series of reflections by human rights practitioners on their work, Philip Alston reflects here on his six-year term as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, completed in July 2010. In the interview, Professor Alston addresses some of the methodological challenges faced by UN Special Procedures in their work – and in particular, highlights the need for greater context-specific analysis in reporting. He also speaks about some of the key themes that feature prominently in many of his country visit reports – including impunity, corruption, witness protection, police accountability, targeted killings, and election-related violence and killings.

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International Human Rights Clinic Alum, Rajeev Goyal, featured in The New Yorker: "Village Voice: The Peace Corps Brightest Hope"

December 20, 2010- Jay-Z loves the Peace Corps. He's never said so publicly, and there's no reference to volunteerism in any of his two hundred and twenty-four songs. But Rajeev Goyal believes that he knows the rapper's true heart. 'Jay-Z and Beyonce are both very interested in helping the Peace Corps," Rajeev told me once. He said that last year he was on the phone with somebody who claimed he could arrange for Jay-Z and Beyonce to speak at a Peace Corps rally that Rajeev was organizing in Washington, D.C. But their appearance fell through, which sometimes happens to Rajeev's most ambitious plans. He was unable to get an audience with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala to request a letter from His Holiness asking Congress to give more money to the Peace Corps. Once, he asked Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair and Tim Russert's widow, to contact Senator Barbara Mikulski, of Maryland, in a manner so roundabout that it was like driving from D.C. to Baltimore via the Deep South. "He asked me to ask James Carville to ask Bill Clinton to call Senator Mikulski," Orth told me. "And that's just one of four e-mails that I got from him in a day!" Orth didn’t telephone Carville, but on another occasion she called a senator on his cell phone in the middle of a meeting. "It was outrageous, but I did it for Rajeev," she said like everybody, she used his first name when talking about him. Orth admired Rajeev's willingness to try anything, especially since he had appeared in Washington as if" he was dropped in there from a cloud." She said, 'Who else would fly on miles all the way to Hawaii to try to see Obama's sister? And get it done! I wish he had been a reality series."

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