Women’s Political Agenda
On June 2, 2023, the women candidates will again confer with the association of women mayors on the best way forward
On June 2, 2023, the women candidates will again confer with the association of women mayors on the best way forward
Slideshow. The women candidates gathered in Tabarre on May 28, 2023 to celebrate Mothers Day and the fifth anniversary of the Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates
By the Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. It would be a hundred times better if the Haitian politicians themselves implemented a solution. History, however, is not encouraging. Meanwhile, gangs rampage freely and several million very poor people teeter on the brink of starvation and cholera. Over seventy years ago the international community invented the United Nations’ peacekeeping machinery for just such emergencies. If there was ever a time it was needed, it is now, in Haiti.
The Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates participates by Zoom in the Transition Council’s meeting. Council president Mirlande Manigat lays out a schedule for elections and improved governance. Agenda item no. 1 is restoring security.
By Sauveur Pierre Etienne. The population’s spontaneous resistance to the gangs is a force to be reckoned with, yet undirected it could lead to anarchy. It remains the responsibility of the Haitian elite to forge a functioning state extending its sovereignty over the whole territory,
Lance un SOS POUR NOTRE REPRÉSENTANTE DU DÉPARTEMENT DE NIPPES, AMENTHA LÉONARD C’EST ATTAQUÉE PAR DES BANDITS A L’HÔPITAL DU DIT DÉPARTEMENT
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, May 19, 2023. In 2017, while the other pundits nodded off, we wrote, “The withdrawal of the U.N. mission is based on wishful thinking. Its ounce of prevention has averted a ton of headaches.” Today, tens of thousands of deaths later, there’s a growing awareness among the pundits of the need for the mission, but as yet no conception of the negotiations it would take in the Security Council to get it.
Since 2017 the Haiti project has consistently pushed first for retaining, then returning the U.N. mission to Haiti to avert complete disaster. We’ve just made the case again in the Washington Post and with the Inter-American Dialogue (above). Here we reprise our previous articles with them
Quatorze des quelques dizaines d’activités que le Regroupement des Femmes Candidates a réalisées depuis ses débuts en 2018
More reports coming in of Regroupement des Femmes Candidates women having their houses destroyed by the gangs and being thrown into the streets
The Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates has recommended someone to be the women’s-sector member of the Conseil Electoral Provisoire
RENAFECA s’associe à ONU-Femmes, siégeant à ses sous-comités. Voici les noms de femmes qui feront partie du sous comité
The Regroupement des Femmes Candidates participates in a Haitian government conference on April 18, 2023
Nan okazyon Jounen nasyonal mouvman fanm peyi Dayiti, 3 avril 2023. Peyi a ap trepase, dirijan, dirijant nan Leta pran responsabiite n oubyen lage pye n
La déclaration ci-dessus en français. A l’occasion de la Journée Nationale du Mouvement des Femmes Haïtiennes, le 3 avril 2023
English version of the above. We, Haitian women dedicated to lifting the country from its execrable condition, demand as follows
Par Wiselaine Dorcélus, présidente du Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates. Il faudra un grand effort pour que les femmes en Haïti obtiennent leurs droits et aident à sortir la nation de son bourbier. Son message du 8 mars, Journée internationale de la femme, ici posté tardivement
The above in Creole. By Wiselaine Dorcélus, president of the Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates. It’s going to take a big push for women in Haiti to gain their rights and help lead the nation out of its morass. Her message on March 8, International Women’s Day, here belatedly posted
Citizens’ Resistance Groups. Il ne s’agit pas de force d’auto défense mais de groupe de résistance. Les citoyens doivent rester chez eux pour défendre leur famille et leurs biens
Lacked a radio to tell his partners where he was. Incident indicates that they are barely hanging on and cannot by themselves fend off gangs armed with high-caliber weapons