Morning Briefing

Two years after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake, a "crisis of gender-based violence and exploitation is festering -- and foreign aid efforts are still failing to protect survivor communities from harm, or to make the criminal justice system more accountable," The Nation reports. "In a recent study of conditions surrounding four internally displaced people's camps, researchers with the Global Justice Center and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) estimate that '14 percent of households reported that at least one member of the household had been a victim of sexual violence since the earthquake,'" the news service writes, adding, "Victims were typically young, female, and deprived of access to food, water and sanitation."