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title="Feminist International Solidarity Camp “Myriam Merlet” To Open On Haitian-Dominican Republic Border">Feminist
International Solidarity Camp “Myriam Merlet” To Open On
Haitian-Dominican Republic Border</a></h3>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Also to be included is a Health Center to help deal the grief,
injuries, illnesses and traumas of the earthquake.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Participation is needed, particularly to find resources, share
information from the Camp and develop solidarity in your place. .</p>
<p>For more information in English about the Myriam Merlet Feminist
International Solidarity Camp and other ways to participate go to: <a
href="http://www.radiofeminista.net">http://www.radiofeminista.net</a>
(webpage of FIRE radio) as of Febrary 1st. </p>
<p>Write in English to <a
href="http://womensphere.wordpress.com/oficina@radiofeminista.net">oficina@radiofeminista.net</a>
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<p>Or write in Spanish to: Colectiva Mujer y Salud in the Dominican
Republic at <a href="http://www.colectivamujerysalud.org">http://www.colectivamujerysalud.org</a></p>
<p>Centro de Investigación para la Acción Femenina CIPAF also in the
Dominican Republic at: <a href="http://www.cipaf.org.do">http://www.cipaf.org.do</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.radiofeminista.net/index.php/es/noticias/70-solidarity-haiti-feminist.html">http://www.radiofeminista.net/index.php/es/noticias/70-solidarity-haiti-feminist.html</a></p>
<p>See also: <a
href="http://www.radiofeminista.net/index.php/en/component/content/article/3/75-campamento-feminista-internacional-qmyriam-merlet-anne-marie-coriolan-y-magalie-marcelinq.html">“Myriam
Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan & Magalie Marcelin Feminist
International Camp”</a></p>
<p>and: <a
href="http://womensphere.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/unifem-mourns-the-deaths-of-4-women%e2%80%99s-rights-activists-in-haiti/">UNIFEM
Mourns the Deaths of 4 Women’s Rights Activists in Haiti</a></p>
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