Getting Women into Local Government
Faire entrer les femmes dans le gouvernement local. The Women Candidates join a workshop on June 2, 2023 with the Federation of Women Mayors on how to elect more women to local government. Slideshow
Celebrating Women Candidates’ Fifth
The women candidates gather in Tabarre on May 28, 2023 to celebrate Mother’s Day and the fifth anniversary of the Regroupement National des Femmes Candidates. Slideshow
Give This Job to the Security Council
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.
We Participate Remotely in Transition Council Planning
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.
Channelize the Population’s Anger
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,