How aid cuts are threatening women’s organizations responding to Haiti’s gang violence

Country: Haiti Source: UN Women Roselene Pierre is the President of Rassemblement de Femmes Engagées de Ouanaminthe (RFEO), an organization supported by UN Women that provides around the clock assistance to women and children in northeast Haiti. Every day, Pierre sees what women and girls in her community experience: “Women are beaten, there is sexual violence against women, and women are dying”, she says. RFEO was founded by Pierre and her two close friends almost 20 years ago to respond to the