MADRE to Haiti Donors: Respect Women’s Human Rights in Recovery Policies

by Gary Kopycinski on March 18, 2010

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2010. In advance of a crucial donors’ conference on Haiti, 300 organizations today joined together and submitted a two-page letter of principles to participating states. MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, participated in this effort to ensure that human rights principles are embedded in the international community’s response to January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.