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One year after the earthquake in Haiti, more than one million people are still living in makeshift camps, facing a cholera epidemic, shortages of food, and political instability. And now there is a warning that women and girls in these camps are at increasing risk of rape or sexual violence.

In a new report, the human rights group Amnesty International says that hundreds of women and girls have been sexually assaulted since the earthquake, often by groups of armed men who roam the camps after dark.

Rape only became a criminal offence in Haiti in 2005 and was a big problem even before the disaster.

In a special Outlook report from the devastated country, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Mike Thomson heard one young woman's disturbing account of when she was raped in a camp soon after giving birth.

Three men came in late at night. "I cried, I yelled, but nobody came, there was nobody," she said. "After they finished, they beat me. They beat me so much that you can see scars on my skin and my knee."

First broadcast on 6 January, 2011