Tomorrow the Haiti Democracy Project joins a conference in Port-au-Prince on preventing violence toward women and on increasing the number of women candidates. Sponsored by the U.N. and Canada and held at the Hotel Montana
Eleven Haitian women’s organizations, ours included, call on foreign police to help their Haitian counterparts to restore order — part of a larger call to repress the gangs and make way for elections. Together these organizations claim to represent 250,000 Haitian women
On August 25, 2022 the women candidates went to the jail to provide medical support for women held there
Past discrimination resulted in the last legislature having only four women out of 149 members. On June 27 and July 14, 2022 the Haiti project’s women-candidates initiative held seminars in Port-au-Prince focusing on the electoral commission’s complicity in this discrimination
The majority of voters in Haiti are women. The determined women in this video aim to put a better alternative on the ballot than the gangsters-in-politicians’-garb who have ruled Haiti for so long
Aided by $1,000 from the Haitian government’s women’s-affairs ministry, the women candidates waged a nonstop campaign against sexual violence going door-to-door in Camp Perrin and two other populous communes in the Sud province