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Port-au-Prince, February 3, 2026.- The Ministry for Women's Status and Women's Rights (MCFDF) is increasing initiatives to improve the care of women and girls victims of violence in Haiti. In this context, a strategic meeting was held on Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at the Ministry's headquarters, bringing together several key state institutions around a common objective: to strengthen the coordination of measures to protect and support survivors.
This initiative follows a first meeting held on 27 January at the Primature in the presence of Prime Minister Axène Joseph's Chief of Staff. It is part of a concerted effort to establish an inter-agency group to ensure the harmonised, effective and sustainable care of women and girls in situations of violence.
Faced with the severe social, psychological and health consequences of gender-based violence, the MCFDF intends to foster a collective and structured response, in close collaboration with the institutions involved throughout the care chain. The aim is to improve the processing of cases, strengthen the guidance of survivors and ensure more humane, coherent and tailored support to their specific needs.
To this end, three days of capacity-building workshops are scheduled in February. These sessions will consolidate coordination mechanisms, clarify the roles of the different actors and optimize the functioning of the future interinstitutional host group.
It should be noted that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) alerted at the end of January about the alarming resurgence and systematicization of sexual violence in Port-au-Prince, used by gangs as an instrument of terror. According to a report based on ten years of medical data from the Pran Men的m clinic, the number of victims has almost tripled since 2021, from about 95 monthly admissions to over 250 by 2025.
Such violence affects women and girls of all ages, often victims of repeated and collective aggression, mostly perpetrated by members of armed groups. MSF points out that this situation reflects the general worsening of insecurity in Haiti and the direct impact of violence on women and girls in the capital.
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