{"id":5772,"date":"2022-04-19T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2022-04-19T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:03:19","slug":"the-guardian-highlights-ijdhs-work-combating-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2022\/04\/19\/the-guardian-highlights-ijdhs-work-combating-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Highlights IJDH\u2019s Work Combating Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In April 2022, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> highlighted Channel partner the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/ijdh\/\">Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)<\/a> in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/18\/haiti-sexual-violence-rape-gangs-victims-women-lawyers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">article<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> on their work to win justice for women and girls who have been raped and experienced other forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since the assassination of Haiti\u2019s president in 2021, sexual violence linked to armed gangs in Haiti has escalated. IJDH and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijdh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, their Haiti-based partner, set up the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijdh.org\/our-work\/access-to-justice\/womensrights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rape Accountability and Prevention Project (RAPP)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in the wake of the dramatic rise in sexual violence predominantly against women in displacement camps after the country\u2019s 2010 earthquake. Since then, RAPP has combined legal service, medico-legal partnerships, community organizing, and advocacy to serve survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Channel has supported RAPP since its inception and believes it serves a model for the kind of deep and thoughtful long term change work necessary to truly eradicate SGBV.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">BAI lawyer Gladys Thermezi told the Guardian, \u201cWe have an obstacle in getting justice and that is the judicial system. We are fighting the system.\u201d Despite the prevalence of corruption, victim-blaming, and stigma, Thermezi and her fellow lawyers remain steadfast in their fight to speak up for these women.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Rebecca Blackwell\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2022, The Guardian highlighted Channel partner the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,137,119,121],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","tag-evawpwhrd","tag-eli","tag-ijdh","tag-lac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}