FAVILEK (the Creole acronym stands for Women Victims Get Up Stand UP) is an organization that was founded in 1991 by Haitian rape victims during the coup that overthrew President Jean Bertrand.
Before the 7.0 earthquake in 2010, it was estimated that at least 50 rapes occured in Port-au-Prince
daily. Since the quake, 1,300 camps are home to a million people, many attacked by rape gangs. The majority of the victims are women. US aid, previously promised to Haiti, is caught up in bureaucratic red tape, offering little hope of security.
According to Mother Jones Magazine, French military policemen (soldiers of MINUSTAH, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), were quoted as saying "Every day it is like this: fighting, a lot of violence, murder, a lot of rape," they say, shaking their heads. "A lot of rape."
A full view of the article can be viewed at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/haiti-rape-earthquake-mac-mcclelland
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