Gender Based Crime in Haiti and the Work of the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project.

Discussion with Meena Jagannath on gender based voilence in Haiti, its socio-economic contex, the legal and institutional obstacles in obtaining convictions and the work of the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project. Meena was a legal fellow at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and coordinator of its Rape Accountability and Prevention Project from April 2011 through September 2012 for which she directed legal representation as well as national and international advocacy and organization of women’s grassroots groups in Haiti. Meena worked as a Staff Attorney for the Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services in Miami before she co-founded the Community Justice Project in 2015 which advocates for racial and economic justice both through litigation and capacity building for grassroots organizing.

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