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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It's been a terrifying week for the people of Haiti, where gun battles between gangs and the police have gripped the capital, Port-au-Prince, and left bodies laying ...
Over 5,300 people have been killed in Haiti since January and more than 12,000 since the start of 2022, according to the U.N., while over 700,000 have been internally displaced.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director ...
Haiti Rapes, Lyn Duff, Pacific News Service, Haiti Action Net, 10 March 2005; Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, Beverly Bell. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001; Gender and Politics in Contemporary Haiti: The Duvalierist State, Transnationalism, and the Emergence of a New Feminism (1980–1990), Carolle Charles ...
Catherine Flon (1772-1831) was a Haitian seamstress, patriot and national heroine. She is regarded as one of the symbols of the Haitian Revolution and independence. She is celebrated for sewing the first Haitian flag on May 18, 1803, and maintains an important place in Haitian memory of the Revolution to this day.
With the fall of the François Duvalier regime on Haiti in 1986, the feminist movement renewed itself considerably. More than 30,000 women took to the streets on 3 April 1986 in Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, to demand equal access to fundamental rights, work and health.
Dozens of female inmates were on the run in Haiti after escaping Thursday from the country’s only prison for women, after police were prevented from getting to the facility because a gang ...
Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale was a women's organization in Haiti, founded in 1934. [1] [2] It was founded by the leading suffragist Yvonne Sylvain in 1934.It was the first feminist organization in Haiti, and played an important role for the struggle for women's suffrage, which was finally introduced in 1950.