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Sexual violence in Haiti is a common phenomenon today. 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.〔 A study by a human rights group found that 14% of Haitian households reported having at least one member suffered sexual violence between the January 2010 earthquake and January 2012.〔 In 2012, sexual assaults in Port au Prince were reported at a rate 20 times higher in the camps than elsewhere in Haiti.〔 A 2009 study reported that up to 225,000 Haitian children are forced to work as domestic servants, and are at grave risk of rape at the hands of their captors.〔 The children, known as restaveks, are traded into other households by their families, exchanging the children's labor for upbringing.〔〔 Two thirds of ''restaveks'' are female, and most of them come from very poor families and are given to better-off ones.〔 ''Restaveks'' who are young and female are particularly likely to be victimized sexually. Female ''restaveks'' are sometimes referred to as ''"la pou sa"'' which translates to "there for that"—'that' being the sexual pleasure of the males of the family with whom they are staying. == Social factors == Victim blaming is common in Haiti, which discourages people from reporting assaults against them.〔 Rape victims and their families are stigmatized, and being the victim of a rape is considered shameful. Sometimes family and significant others abandon a victim. Women and girls who have been raped often try to keep the fact a secret since not being a virgin reduces their marriageability. This shame surrounding rape discourages reporting and contributes to the difficulty in garnering accurate statistics on sexual assaults.〔 Due to the entrenched attitudes about women in the society, law enforcement personnel such as police and judges frequently do not take violence against women and children seriously and do not make great effort to enforce laws against it.〔 Victims may contract HIV or other sexually transmitted infections or may become pregnant from rape and bear children, potentially an emotional and economic hardship. Drug dealing and illicit arms trading are widespread in Haiti, which contribute to a rising rate of sexual violence including gang rapes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sexual violence in Haiti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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