FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
CAMP “MYRIAM MERLET” TO OPEN ON HAITIAN-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BORDER NEXT WEEK

 

 


 
  
  
  
  
   
  The solidarity camp is named after Myriam Merlet, a feminist activist
  who was killed in the earthquake last week.  As an outspoken activist,
  Merlet helped draw international attention to the use of rape as a political
  weapon.
   
  
 


 

A Feminist
International Solidarity Camp to help mobilize and transfer resources, and to
open channels of communications directly with Haitian women will open next week
on the frontier Jemaní between the Dominican Republic & Haiti.  As a
project organized by women’s groups in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and
elsewhere in Latin America & the Caribbean and beyond, the Camp will be
eventually handed over to Haitian women.

 

The
international solidarity camp is named after Myriam Merlet, It is organized as
a Resource Center for international solidarity efforts to send resources
directly to the women of Haiti, and also work with Human Rights
defenders from Haiti to monitor, denounce and demand legal action regarding
violations of human rights including women’s human rights during the earthquake
and the aftermath.  

 

Also to be
included is a Health Center to help deal the grief, injuries, illnesses
and traumas of the earthquake.  

 

Coordinators
of these efforts include the Women & Health Collective (COMUS) a
women’s human rights and health NGO, and CIPAF, a feminist NGO of the Dominican
Republic that works in building social/political movement.

 

The space will
also serve as a Communications Center to include radio transmissions via
Internet by FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), as well as blogs,
and electronic networks organized by women’s communication networks throughout
the region.  FIRE was the first international internet radio created and
run by women from Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Participation is needed, particularly to find
resources, share information from the Camp and develop solidarity in your
place. .

 

For more information in English
about the Myriam Merlet Feminist International Solidarity Camp and other ways
to participate go to:  www.radiofeminista.net
(webpage of FIRE radio) as of February 1st. 



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Or write in Spanish to: 

Colectiva Mujer y Salud in the
Dominican Republic at www.colectivamujerysalud.org

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 Centro
de Investigación para la Acción Femenina CIPAF
also in the Dominican Republic at: http://www.cipaf.org.do


 

Join the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=262277316594&ref=nf
(called Feminist International Solidarity Camp “Myriam Merlet ”)

 		 	   		  
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