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
“Insécurité : les citoyens aux abois, les autorités déplorent, dénoncent et promettent” –Radio Métropole
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
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
I am no longer president of the transition. I was tortured into doing that. –Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, senior justice of the Supreme Court
The U.N. women’s program will take responsibility for training prospective women candidates in the Nord-Est Department