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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sexual violence in Haiti is a common phenomenon today and has been throughout the country's history. Soldiers who traveled with Christopher Columbus to the land now known as Haiti raped the native women and girls they met there. When Haiti was a French colony known as Saint-Domingue in the 17th and 18th centuries, the economy was based on slavery, and French slaveholders used rape as a means of torture. Rape was also common during the Haitian Revolution and during the United States occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. During the dictatorial regimes of François Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and Raoul Cédras in the 20th century, thousands of Haitian women were systematically raped by government-linked forces in efforts to suppress political opposition. People born of this sexual abuse are now common in the society.Being raped is considered shameful in Haitian society, and victims may find themselves abandoned by loved ones or with reduced marriageability. Until 2005, rape was not legally considered a serious crime and a rapist could avoid jail by marrying his victim. Reporting a rape to police in Haiti is a difficult and convoluted process, a factor that contributes to underreporting and difficulty in obtaining accurate statistics about sexual violence. Few rapists face any punishment.A UN Security Council study in 2006 reported 35,000 sexual assaults against women and girls between 2004 and 2006. The UN reported in 2006 that half of the women living in the capital city Port au Prince's slums had been raped. United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Haiti since 2004 have drawn widespread resentment after reports emerged of the soldiers raping Haitian civilians.The 2010 Haitian earthquake caused over a million Haitians to move to refugee camps where conditions are dangerous and poor. Since the earthquake, incidents of rape are thought to be on the rise, but collecting accurate statistics is difficult. Rapes occur in tent camps in Port au Prince at an estimated rate 20 times higher than in the rest of the country. In response, groups have organized trainings to teach women about safety and self-defense, organized ways to call for help, and advocated for the government to take more steps to protect women.Human trafficking is another problem in Haiti; both adults and children are forced into labor including forced prostitution. People are brought into or through Haiti, or from Haiti to other countries to work in brothels. The earthquake made kidnapping children and taking them from the country much easier for traffickers, since law enforcement and other protections were damaged and preoccupied with the relief effort. Even before the earthquake, about a quarter million children were being forced to work as unpaid domestic servants, many of whom suffer sexual abuse. As of 2012, the number of these children, called restaveks, may be as high as half a million.. }

• Sexual_violence_in_Haiti abstract "Sexual violence in Haiti is a common phenomenon today and has been throughout the country's history. Soldiers who traveled with Christopher Columbus to the land now known as Haiti raped the native women and girls they met there. When Haiti was a French colony known as Saint-Domingue in the 17th and 18th centuries, the economy was based on slavery, and French slaveholders used rape as a means of torture. Rape was also common during the Haitian Revolution and during the United States occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. During the dictatorial regimes of François Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and Raoul Cédras in the 20th century, thousands of Haitian women were systematically raped by government-linked forces in efforts to suppress political opposition. People born of this sexual abuse are now common in the society.Being raped is considered shameful in Haitian society, and victims may find themselves abandoned by loved ones or with reduced marriageability. Until 2005, rape was not legally considered a serious crime and a rapist could avoid jail by marrying his victim. Reporting a rape to police in Haiti is a difficult and convoluted process, a factor that contributes to underreporting and difficulty in obtaining accurate statistics about sexual violence. Few rapists face any punishment.A UN Security Council study in 2006 reported 35,000 sexual assaults against women and girls between 2004 and 2006. The UN reported in 2006 that half of the women living in the capital city Port au Prince's slums had been raped. United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Haiti since 2004 have drawn widespread resentment after reports emerged of the soldiers raping Haitian civilians.The 2010 Haitian earthquake caused over a million Haitians to move to refugee camps where conditions are dangerous and poor. Since the earthquake, incidents of rape are thought to be on the rise, but collecting accurate statistics is difficult. Rapes occur in tent camps in Port au Prince at an estimated rate 20 times higher than in the rest of the country. In response, groups have organized trainings to teach women about safety and self-defense, organized ways to call for help, and advocated for the government to take more steps to protect women.Human trafficking is another problem in Haiti; both adults and children are forced into labor including forced prostitution. People are brought into or through Haiti, or from Haiti to other countries to work in brothels. The earthquake made kidnapping children and taking them from the country much easier for traffickers, since law enforcement and other protections were damaged and preoccupied with the relief effort. Even before the earthquake, about a quarter million children were being forced to work as unpaid domestic servants, many of whom suffer sexual abuse. As of 2012, the number of these children, called restaveks, may be as high as half a million.".