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The BAI presents; a documentary on KOFAVIV,
Commission of Women Victims for Victims,
Founded 8 March, 2004
If we look at the the victims and the courts
How much time will it take for this process to work
before we can find justice, it is the same way
we do this, today or tomorrow we won't be getting
results, but we pressure them and that builds our
capacity to win, to finally find a judgement
Especially, the women's movements
We know that the battle isn't something for a
couple of women, but a battle with all of us,
what we are doing today is with three solid women's
organizations who are standing up so that we can
celebrate this beautiful day, these three organizations
are KOFAVIV (Komisyon Fanm Viktim pou Viktim), FAVILEK
(Fanm Viktim Leve Kampe), with KONAMAVID (Kordinasyon
Oganizasyon Fanm Viktim), another reason too we
must not forget that today is the anniversary of
KOFAVIV
I am Malya Villard, I am the coordinator of KOFAVIV,
KOFAVIV is the Commission of Women's Victims for Victims
KOFAVIV works with a lot of women that are victims of
*** violence, with women who are victims of domestic
violence, and then with children who are in domestic
servitude, so we work with all people in those groups,
I coordinate the work with the women, in this country we
have a lot of problems, a lot of difficulties, such as
many cases of ***. Thank you.
We can say that KOFAVIV is an organization that can work
with victims, the BAI (Bureau des Avocats Internationaux),
and also with delegations of lawyers such as those coming
from the United States, like Blaine (IJDH) who themselves
take the initiative so that they can work with us, who have
many victims in our organization. They provide support, so
that when a victim comes in, they will have the possibility
to go to the court, also they will accompany the victim
in the legal process, and at the same time demand that the
Haitian Government also takes responsibility so that they can
give justice to women who are victims of *** in Haiti.
I am Eramithe Delva, Executive Secretary of KOFAVIV,
(Commission of Women's Victims for Victims), Malya spoke
clearly about what KOFAVIV is, but I will add that KOFAVIV
is an organization that gives medical, social, and psycho-social
support to women who are victims of *** violence. Also, we
work with children concerning the question of education, we
have a school in Martissant, with 250 children, out of all those,
some have been involved in violence, some victims of violence,
and others who are in domestic servitude. I think that we
provide an accompaniment that is really interesting, but the only
problem is that we lack... we lack money to do the work.