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Alice Garoute (1874 – 30 October 1950) was a Haitian suffragist and advocate for women's rights in Haiti, including those of rural women.On her deathbed in 1950, Alice Garoute asked that flowers be placed on her grave the day Haitian women would finally be able to vote. [1]
As Haiti's international representative, she participated in the 1991 meeting of the Organization of American States and gave a speech to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [7] [8] During her tenure, Jean-Louis engaged in a diplomatic dispute with the Dominican Republic following the deportation of over 100 Haitians from the country.
The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti is an international police and military force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018.
This is a list of notable Haitian people. It includes people who were born in Haiti or possess Haitian citizenship, who are notable in Haiti and abroad. Due to Haitian nationality laws, dual citizenship is now permitted by the Constitution of Haiti, therefore people of Haitian ancestry born outside of the country are not included in this list, unless they have renounced their foreign ...
In 1997, she helped organize an international tribunal in Haiti dealing with violence against women. Marcelin appeared in the films Haiti in all our dreams and Anita. She was the godparent of the daughter of former Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Marcelin died at the age of 47 at Port-au-Prince in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
The Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women (French: Ministère à la Condition féminine et aux Droits des femmes; MCFDF) is a ministry in Haiti, founded on 8 November 1994 with the mission to work for the emergence of an egalitarian society with equality between men and women.
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 ...
WiR redlist index: Haiti. Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links covers women from Haiti. It is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia.