Sexual and reproductive rights are not optional — even or especially when countries experience systemic collapse.
By Maniza Habib
March 2, 2026
In a recent congressional hearing, the top U.S. diplomat in Haiti warned the country was “experiencing systemic collapse” as killings, kidnappings, hunger, poverty, mass displacement, and chaos surge, and as violence cuts off humanitarian aid to the 6 million people in Haiti who need it.
… Haiti’s humanitarian crisis is a sexual and reproductive health emergency for Haitian women and girls. That’s also true for tens of millions of women and girls in other conflict zones worldwide. Emergency contraception, post-rape care, maternal health services, HIV prevention, and access to safe, legal abortion all need to be core components of humanitarian response. Without them, the crises in Haiti and other countries will worsen.
Continued: https://fpif.org/the-u-s-is-exacerbating-haitis-gender-violence-crisis/