Latest Haiti Democracy News
With the Female Prisoners of Jacmel
On August 25, 2022 the women candidates went to the jail to provide medical support for women held there
Pulling UN a Big Mistake — OAS
Five years ago when the internationals threw Haiti to the wolves, the Haiti Democracy Project was about the only organization to clearly and loudly protest. Mum was the word from the OAS and all the establishment commentators
Eyes on the CEP
Past discrimination resulted in the last legislature having only four women out of 149 members. On June 27 and July 14, 2022 the Haiti project’s women-candidates initiative held seminars in Port-au-Prince focusing on the electoral commission’s complicity in this discrimination
Reflections One Year After
One year after the tragedy of a presidential assassination, it is clearer than ever that respect for elections is key to Haiti’s future
Gangs Reflect Intra-Elite Struggle
By Haiti Democracy Project for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, May 22, 2022. Gangs are the shadow-play of Haiti’s latest power struggle at the top. They won’t be wished away by a chaste “Haitian-led solution.” Only a full peacekeeping mission can get rid of them
Get UN in There While There Is Still Something Left to Save
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, February 18, 2022. Haiti can’t do this alone, torn to pieces by intra-elite strife and the gangs they send out. The U.N. made sure that nine elections were held and no presidents overthrown or assassinated. Bring them back to restore order and have an election
Meet These Brave Women Seeking to Change Haiti
The majority of voters in Haiti are women. The determined women in this video aim to put a better alternative on the ballot than the gangsters-in-politicians’-garb who have ruled Haiti for so long
Project Participates in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Aided by $1,000 from the Haitian government’s women’s-affairs ministry, the women candidates waged a nonstop campaign against sexual violence going door-to-door in Camp Perrin and two other populous communes in the Sud province
Planning for the Campaign
Le Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates RENAFECA veut organiser trois journées de sensibilisation et de portes en portes
We Return to Sud to Aid Children
Encore une fois en route vers le sud. We return to Les Cayes to set up a camp for children who have lost a parent in the earthquake
Project Reaches Sud with Aid
Braving the gangs our women candidates transported the donated supplies to the Sud and are distributing them at mobile clinics in the countryside. The Women Candidates’ nurses corps has been in action since the first days of the earthquake
New Donation of Living Kits and Tarps
This donation from supplies in Haiti will be a game-changer for the numerous families thrown out of their homes who now have no place to live, at least temporary shelter until they can begin to rebuild. To capitalize on this donation we need to come through with more to transport this stuff south
Flyers Describe Aid Effort
Click to see the flyer issued by the Haiti Democracy Project’s women’s campaign publicizing their relief work in the South
Let Wiselaine Take it to Them
How to get aid to the victims in the south? Let Wiselaine Dorcélus, leader of the women candidates, take it there herself! She is now collecting medical and hygienic supplies and clothing for a trip to Sud, Grand’ Anse, and Nippes where women candidates and their families are in distress. A generous donor in Haiti is giving her as much as she can carry, so money transfers from the States will enable her to get a larger van and go to more remote areas
Organizing Medical Supplies for the South
The Haiti Democracy Project’s women-candidates organization in Haiti has suffered severely in the southern provinces. A number of prospective candidates have been killed or injured. Wiselaine Dorcélus, the candidates’ leader, is collecting medical supplies to take to Jérémie, Nippes, and Sud.
Opposition May Be Complicit in Assassination
By Haiti Democracy Project for the Inter-American Dialogue: The opposition falsely accused Jovenel Moïse of ruling beyond his constitutional term, thus of ruling illegally. This “big lie” put him in danger in a country as unstable as Haiti. Look for that to be the pretext for whoever did it
Jovenel Assassinated
Killed at his residence, according to acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph. A horrific act that shreds what remains of the rule of law in Haiti
U.S. Supporter Puts the Idea into Practice!
An Oregon supporter of Haitian women candidates has thrown her hat into the ring locally! Catherine McMullen is a friend of the family of our former leader Amb. Ernest Preeg and is now an election official in Portland. She is running for county clerk in adjoining Clackamas County
Reposted from 2019 — U.N. Mission Needed for 20 Years: Edmund Mulet
The Security Council has sent five missions to Haiti, pulling them whenever it thinks stability has been attained. It needs to send one for twenty years with the power to make decisions
Haiti Project Predicted Jovenel’s Demise Sixteen Days Ahead
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. Washington has pulled out so many of the supports that Jovenel Moïse will be lucky to make it through his term. It has completely dismantled the protective edifice that three U.S. presidents erected for Haitian presidents over many years