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Preventing Sexual Violence in Disasters

The NSVRC works to increase access to information on the prevention and response to sexual violence occurring during and after disasters, relief funds available to affected communities and planning tools.

Support for Haiti

This list of organizations was complied by the National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault in an effort to assist you in helping to ensure the safety of women and children in Haiti, whether you give time, money, food, clothing or other resources, we ask you to donate to Haitian Women’s organizations.  

Preventing Sexual Violence in Disasters

Logo - Donate to the sexual violence disaster relief fundThe National Sexual Violence Resource Center engages local, state, territory, national and int

Natural Disasters and Violence

The following resources discuss public policy issues related to natural disasters, safety and violence.

After Katrina Policy Series, 2006
The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute in Washington D.C. issued a series of reports about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They are downloadable as follows:

Safety for Displaced Persons

Checklist for Action: Prevention & Response to Gender-Based Violence in Displaced Settings, June 2004
Gender-Based Violence Global Technical Support Project
RHRC Consortium/JSI Research and Training Institute
http://www.rhrc.org/resources/Checklist.pdf