Ce chapitre examine les compréhensions haïtiennes des crises, en particulier le séisme de 2010, en contraste avec les représentations médiatiques étrangères. L'auteur critique la tendance à présenter les catastrophes comme des événements isolés, alors que les Haïtiens les perçoivent comme des manifestations d'une crise structurelle enracinée dans l'histoire de l'esclavage et de l'intervention étrangère.

While women in Haiti obtained important changes in discriminatory laws after the end of the Duvalier era, other issues remained unresolved. Haiti is amongst six countries in the Caribbean and Latin America that criminalize abortion. This does not prevent women from practicing abortion at very high risks: it is estimated that a third of the maternal deaths are due to abortions in the country. The January 2010 earthquake killed thousands of people and feminist leaders were also victims. How did feminist activists continue the work to legalize abortion after this event?

This chapter describes various social factors in the lives of Haitian women that intersect with the experience of depression. It presents an overview of socio-political influences on the health and well-being of Haitian women, as well as an examination of various health-related beliefs and practices that shape the ways in which their physical and emotional problems are understood. The chapter traces the history of Haitian culture with a particular emphasis on the roles of women in social and political movements.

By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the Virgin Mary was his godmother. Inspired by mystical revelations from the Holy Mother, he amassed a large and volatile following of insurgents who would go on to sack countless plantations and conquer the coastal cities of Jacmel and Léogâne.

This document provides a gendered perspective for communities affected by environmental natural disasters so as to reduce the impacts and risks that come with prolonged vulnerability. The report goes into various statistics to justify and explain the humanitarian aid necessary to lessen the harmful consequences that come from natural disasters in Haiti. Additionally, emphasis is placed on the measures that are needed to be implemented before a natural disaster happens to minimize the severe effects that women face during such disasters. (Summary by Mouka)

Throughout the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), supporters of the armed invasion pointed toward the transportation infrastructure as the principal contribution of the intervention. Although many of the thoroughfares were built using forced labor, Haitian-American contact on roads, bridges, and railways blurred the boundaries between the occupied and the occupiers.

Two years after the 7.0 earthquake that devastated the capital of Haiti and shook the entire country to its core, more than half a million people in Port-au-Prince remain in camps for the internally displaced. Despite the massive humanitarian response to the disaster, living conditions in the temporary settlements are dire; accessing adequate food, water, and sanitation constitutes a daily struggle for camp residents, and reports of rape and other forms of sexual violence—especially against women and girls—continue at alarming rates.