Jérémie Forum on Violence Toward Women
Updated with new slide show, May 29. During April 12-16, 2021, the Women Candidates’ Project joined a training in the Grand’Anse to mobilize against violence toward women
Pounding on the Door
At this press conference at the Ritz-Kinam Hotel, the candidates let the world know that women will be pushing on the doors that have kept them from meaningful representation
Transition Is Unconstitutional
By Julie J. Chung, assistant secretary of state. Who would those people be? How chosen? To whom accountable? Under what law? The State Department asks the right questions. But as usual with this genre, it is long on admonitions to Haitians and short on introspection into the U.S. policy failures that brought Haiti to this pass
Referendum Is Unconstitutional
By Georges Michel. The 1987 constitution, Article 3, says, “Toute Consultation Populaire tendant à modifier la Constitution par voie de Referendum est formellement interdite.”
Official Launching of the Women Candidates Project
The women candidates will unveil their campaign this Friday, 10 a.m. at the Ritz Kinam (Kinam II) Hotel on Panamerican. There were only four women in Haiti’s last legislature of 149. They aim to do much better this time
Woman Candidate Shot
While riding home to Croix-des-Bouquets after a women candidates’ meeting on May 6, Jerline is shot in the neck. We don’t know all the circumstances, but violence against women candidates is commonplace and the number-one impediment to their entering politics
Rounding Up the Sud-Est
Wiselaine, our women’s project director, during April 3 – May 3, 2021, set up a women-candidates recruiting structure in the Sud-Est province.
Kidnapping Out of Control
“Insécurité : les citoyens aux abois, les autorités déplorent, dénoncent et promettent” –Radio Métropole
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
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’ NetworkPresident 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
‘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