Latest Haiti Democracy News
You Want To Change Haiti? Elect Women
So says Wiselaine Dorcélus, head of the women candidates’ project. Here the women candidates meet with an electoral commissioner to discuss ways of getting more women on the ballot
International Women’s Day: Planning
Feminist leaders meet on International Women’s Day to plan how to flood the elections with women candidates, after only four women were allowed into the last legislature of 149
Thirty Women to Train, Run in Nord-Est Department
Motivate and educate: These are the themes of a training session for thirty women candidates set to meet in the Nord-Est Department on April 22-23. It will cost $5,000, which they don’t have. Reposted with new map
Constitutional ABCs
Article 134-2 makes the new president start immediately after a late election. It juggles the schedule to accommodate this. But in Jovenel Moïse’s case, the amendment was ignored. He wasn’t allowed to start immediately after his election. Out goes Article 134-2, both substance and scheduling
Strategizing Against Violence Toward Girls
The Haiti Democracy Project's Women Candidates' Campaign in concert with the Haiti Adolescent Girls' Network
U.N. Not Calling Term at an End
The secretary-general’s report does not mention it except in passing as a claim made by the opposition (page 2). It says that the government is losing the battle against the gangs and kidnapers, but in fighting them committed eighty-two human-rights violations.
President Moïse Didn’t Dissolve Parliament
A group of senators effectively did, by blocking the law needed for new elections. –Haitian ambassador Bocchit Edmond writing to the Washington Post
How Article 134-2’s Parts Interact
ARTICLE 134-1. The term of the President is five (5) years. Jovenel Moïse was inaugurated in February 2017. He didn’t begin when the election was certified, as per Article 134-2 as amended, so the scheduling in that amendment is also out.
Strategy Session Set for International Women’s Day
In preparation for September elections the candidates are to meet on March 8 at Delmas 35 to strategize recruiting the maximum number of women candidates
Constitutions Are Paper
Article 284-3: General elections to amend the Constitution by referendum are strictly forbidden.. That nixes President Moïse’s plan for a referendum on a new constitution
‘Transition President’ Demurs
I am no longer president of the transition. I was tortured into doing that. –Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, senior justice of the Supreme Court
Cooperation with U.N. Women’s Program
The U.N. women’s program will take responsibility for training prospective women candidates in the Nord-Est Department
Joining Forces with Haitian Adolescent Girls’ Network
A two-month campaign of consciousnesss-raising against violence toward girls
Three New Recruits at Year-End
Here’s where we picked up our last three recruits of 2020
Racking up New Recruits in Sud
Wiselaine ranged along the southern coast of the Sud province and picked up eleven new candidates, one for deputy in the lower chamber and the others for local posts. Reposted with new pictures
Candidates en herbe . . .
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Pleading Women’s Cause on Radio Emancipation FM
Wiselaine Dorcélus, head of our women-candidates project, calls on women to assume their rightful place in government and parliament
Women’s Training Set for December 17-18 in Delmas
The Haiti Democracy Project’s women-candidates group will conduct technical training in women’s participation in politics
Enlever leur peur
Sending an exiguous three hundred dollars for your training because it’s better than nothing
Recruiting New Women Candidates
Teaching them how to conquer their fear. There were only four women in Haiti’s last legislature of 149