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The workshop Dignity, Equality, & Freedom: Enforcing International Human Rights Standards in Port-au-Prince, Haiti held on October 7-11, 2013 assembled participants from SEROvie, FACSDIS and KOFAVIV to discuss human rights abuses based on sexual orientation, gender and gender identity. 

On June 20, 2012, Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security, the World Bank, KOFAVIV, and MADRE, in collaboration with the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at CUNY School of Law and WE-ADVANCE hosted the second of three workshops, entitled “International Approaches to Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Associated with Sexual Violence.” 

The report documented human rights violations against women in Guatemala under several articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and set forth a series of recommended measures that the State can undertake to better comply with its obligations under the Convention. 

MADRE, KOFAVIV, the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at CUNY School of Law, and the World Bank hosted the workshop on the linkage between health services and legal remedies for survivors of gender-based violence on February 7, 2012, bringing together over 100 participants from diverse sectors, including grassroots women’s rights activists, medical professionals, judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and members of the Haitian government.

The Amici Curiae Brief was submitted by a large groups of organizations which included MADRE as well as the IWHR Clinic at the City University of New York in support of the application filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Karen Atala and daughters against the State of Chile. 

The report was composed by women from diverse backgrounds working both in grassroots communities in Haiti and in the international arena with the aim of ensuring women’s participation and leadership in all phases of reconstruction of Haiti.

The request for precautionary measures against the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was compiled by MADRE, KOFAVIV, FAVILEK, KONAMAVID, and other affiliates on behalf of Haitian women who were victims or were under threat of sexual violence in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) after the 2010 earthquake.