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
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
Recruiting New Women Candidates
Teaching them how to conquer their fear. There were only four women in Haiti’s last legislature of 149
Swinging Back Into Action
After a robbery and health problems temporarily sidelined her, Wiselaine, the project coordinator, has kickstarted the project
Taking a Knee
We join the demonstrators on Sixteenth Street just north of the St. John’s Photo-Op Church, and one and a half block north of the Adult Daycare Center (formerly quaintly known as the White House)
I Can’t Breathe
Demonstrators of all ages and races, well educated and very polite. Slideshow
No Justice, No Peace
Video of the call-and-response within earshot of the Adult Day Care Center