Money money money we've been sending billions to Haiti for years and years and what is our get? Not so much. The country remains a total danger for women, more so when a natural disaster happens. Here from the CSM, some things to chew:

women hold just five of the 99 seats in parliament.

(FemiSex add)which makes a law to protect women impossible to uphold let alone pass)

The Ministry of Women's Affairs has galvanized women’s rights organizations around the nation to push for the passage of an anti-violence bill that penalizes assailants who perpetrate violence against women, from beatings to rape, as well as public safety officials who do not enforce the law. The Ministry of Women's Affairs is also working with international non-profits to lead anti-violence workshops across the country.

Still, all agree the push for women's rights faces a long road ahead.

Judging from the reaction of men to legislation, however, it is unclear whether approval will be won. An earlier bill to hold men legally accountable for financially supporting their children, for example, caused a public uproar in churches and among some politicians who questioned its purpose and intent, says Marjory Michel, minister of Women’s Affairs.

Ms. Michel and Yolette Mengual, director of the ministry, say they expect similar debates and delays with the second bill, especially since women hold just five of the 99 seats in parliament. “Five people is hardly a voice in parliament,” says Ms. Mengual. “They alone cannot enforce this as a law.”

Empowerment and education
In the meantime, they have worked with NGOs to improve the situation. UNICEF, for example, has funded educational and training programs to empower women since the earthquake. Young students also participate in a UNICEF-sponsored education program with the ministry where they take notes on the conditions and occurrences of violence in tent cities.

“We must start recovery with the economy and education,” Mengual says of the programs. “An autonomous woman is a free and strong woman.” She travelled to New York in March for the launch of a new program called UN-Women. The program provides living essentials, including mattresses and hygiene products, for women specifically in tent cities.

The programs are essential, Mengual says, but one of their greatest challenges will include changing the mentality of public safety officials
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Yes, ,exactly.

Liberals say pour money on any problem and see what sticks. Fiscal responsibles say: money only where it will change the world. Teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime, give a man a fish and he's hungry the next day.

We need to give money smartly and that means yes...being aggressive to change the culture of female subjugation in foreign lands. Handing out bread for 20 or 40 years will not and has not helped. It's the CULTURE stupid. Change that and you change things for women for EVER for the better.

Spend money to ensure the right laws are passed to protect women and that a massive female human rights campaign is waged. This is what will make women's lives better. Making women dependent upon aid and leaving society to treat them like chattel is not the solution.
Going into the South in the early 1800s and handing out bread in the slave quarters would not have helped the long-term outlook for black women. When you attack the very root of the thing that enslaves women you attack start towards a solution. When you give oppressed women food you put a band-aid on but you leave the wound to fester. If we are too afraid to treat the real problem in Haiti let's just get out. If we are brave we need to spend out money where it matters not just now but in 20 years' time.
Just does not work.

The link below details the rate of rape in Haiti currently and the fact that women must scurry like rats to be in before dusk or they become prey. Enough already. Stop the high rate of rape in Haiti!
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0831/Haitian-women-fight-ba...