In this ethnographic montage, the author revisits the development of her feminist consciousness as a young Haitian teen in the US after migration. She interprets her struggles with her parents’ patriarchal authority. Her responses to this authority serve to highlight the significance of self-definition as a primary tenant of US Black Feminism. She demonstrates how tales of experimental feminist anthropologists whose ethnographic storytelling crosses the boundaries of the personal and the social.

This interview between Chantelle F. Verna and Paulette Poujol Oriol discusses the history of Haiti’s first feminist group The Ligue Feminine d’Action Sociale and the past and ongoing struggles women have had to face. Poujol Oriol shared her understanding of Ligue’s significance for the evolution of women’s rights in Haiti and her recollections about the group’s major accomplishments. When describing this history, she spoke of moments that made her proud as well as those that left her frustrated.

This article unveils how Vodou and the iconography of the two main Ezilis, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freda, from a cultural standpoint informs audiences about the political position of Haitian women in the past and present. White aims not only to provide a literary analysis but also a gendered political examination. She analyses why the specific imagery of each Ezili demonstrates her ideals, given that the chromolithographs have come to represent Iwa everywhere, where chosen after the Vodou mythology had a chance to embed itself.

This report provides a gender profile of conflict in Haiti from the 1950’s up to 2004. Beginning in 1956 during the Duvalier regime, this report outlines the countless ways in which women and children in Haiti have continued to suffer from chronic political unrest. The report describes political, humanitarian, and economic problems that have impacted the lives of many women and children such as political rapes under the Duvalier regime or the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is ongoing.

This report provides a brief explanation of the cultural norms, relevant history, and recent events that have shaped Haiti’s criminal system and its response to gender-based violence. It describes the international human rights instruments adopted or joined by Haiti which mandate that countries secure certain rights to victims of sexual violence and bind Haiti to act on behalf of these victims.

Haiti is prone to natural disasters of many kinds: cyclones, tropical storms, landslides, floods and earthquakes. In less than twelve years, two earthquakes have shaken the country, bringing enormous damage in human life and losses of all kinds. The country had yet to recover from the aftermath of the first 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010 when, on 14 August 2021 a second of magnitude 7.2 struck the south of the country where the majority of the affected municipal districts are remote and difficult to access.

Sixteen-year-old Blanche left her grandmother's home in the Carrefour Feuilles neighborhood at dusk. She went to a nearby square to do her homework.
Like many other schoolchildren living in areas of Port-au-Prince without electricity, she was going to do her homework by the light of one of the only streetlights in the neighborhood still working.

While she was studying, a man approached her. She asked him to leave. He did so, but returned soon after, accompanied by other men who pointed guns at Blanche while the first man tore off her clothes and raped her.

En Haïti, la violence sexuelle contre les femmes et les filles est omniprésente, et vise essentiellement les mineures. On estimait qu'en 2007 plus de 100 000 filles âgées de six à dix-sept ans étaient employées comme domestiques. Ces mineures courent tout particulièrement le risque de subir des sévices physiques et sexuels. Les enfants employés de maison sont souvent issus de milieux très défavorisés.

La violence, et en particulier la violence sexuelle contre les femmes et les fillettes, est omniprésente à Haïti. Ce rapport est centré sur les actes infligés aux fillettes et jeunes filles. Certes, il existe une continuité entre les diverses formes de violences liées au genre que subissent les femmes, mais le droit international reconnaît aux enfants des besoins de protection particuliers.

Haïti est enclin à des catastrophes naturelles de plusieurs sortes : cyclones, tempêtes tropicales, éboulements, inondations et tremblements de terre. En moins de douze ans, deux terribles tremblements de terre ont secoué le pays, entrainant des dommages énormes en vies humaines et en pertes de toutes sortes. Alors que le pays ne s’était pas encore remis des séquelles du premier séisme de magnitude 7.0 en 2010, un deuxième de magnitude 7.2 vient s’abattre le 14 août 2021 au sud du pays dont la plupart des sections communales affectées sont enclavées et difficiles d’accès.