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Ministry On The Status And Rights Of Women
The Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women (; 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. History MCFDF is a result of demands from Haitian women, and was created as part of the preparatory work for the World Conference on Women, 1995. It was created by decree on 8 November 1994 and gave itself two functions in 2004: to defend and promote the rights of women and to promote gender analyses. Lise-Marie Déjean, Lise Marie Déjean, one of the co-founders of ''Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn'', worked for the creation of the ministry, and was also named the first minister. The last minister, before the collapse of the government of Ariel Henry in 2024, was . Structures MCFDF consists of two structures: Central services * The Secretariat of the minister * The Cabinet of the minister * The General Directorate * The Management Decentralized services Each geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry (government Department)
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона", т. XIX (1896): Мекенен — Мифу-Баня, "Министерства", с. 351—357 :s:ru:ЭСБЕ/Министерства These types of organizations are usually led by a politician who is a member of a cabinet—a body of high-ranking government officials—who may use a title such as minister, secretary, or commissioner, and are typically staffed with members of a non-political civil service, who manage its operations; they may also oversee other government agencies and organizations as part of a political portfolio. Governments may have differing numbers and types of ministries and departments. In some countries, these terms may be used with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is defined by the IHSI as including the Communes of Haiti, communes of Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Ouest, Delmas, Cité Soleil, Tabarre, Carrefour, Ouest, Carrefour, and Pétion-Ville. The city of Port-au-Prince is on the Gulf of Gonâve: the bay on which the city lies, which acts as a natural harbor, has sustained economic activity since the civilizations of the Taíno. It was first incorporated under Saint-Domingue, French colonial rule in 1749. The city's layout is similar to that of an amphitheater; commercial districts are near the water, while residential neighborhoods are located on the hills above. Its population is difficult to ascertain due to the rapid growth of slums in the hillsides above the city; however, recent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince. Haiti was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus established the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on its northeastern coast. The island was part of the Spanish Empire until 1697, when the western portion was Peace of Ryswick, ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Conference On Women, 1995
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. At this conference, governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensive plan to achieve global legal equality, known as the Beijing Platform for Action. Background The founding United Nations charter (1945) included a provision for equality between men and women ( chapter III, article 8). Subsequently, from 1945 to 1975 various female officials within the United Nations and leaders of women's movements on the global stage attempted to turn these principles into action. The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution ( resolution 3010) that 1975 should be International Women's Year. In December 1975, the UN General Assembly passed a further resolution ( resolution 31/136) that 1976–1985 should be the "Decade of Women". First World Conference on Women, Mexico Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise-Marie Déjean
Lise-Marie Déjean is a Haitian women's rights defender and organizer who served as the first minister of the Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women in Haiti. Life Lise-Marie Déjean was born in the 1940s. She studied to become a physician in Spain and used her medical skills to work in urban health in New York City and with women throughout rural Haiti and in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. In her work in Haiti, she noticed the high maternal mortality rates which made her recognize the magnitude of gender discrimination and lack of reproductive rights in the country. She joined Haitian Women's Solidarity (Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn, SOFA), a major Haitian women's organization, soon after its founding in 1987. She has served in several roles throughout her 35-year participation in SOFA, including that of national coordinator and coordinator of women's health programming. As a long-term member of SOFA's coordinating committee, she helped open women's clinics in marginalized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn
Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA) is a feminist organization working to promote and defend the rights of women in Haiti. The organization unites women on the countryside, in the working-class neighborhoods of the cities, and women within the universities and businesses. History 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. The movement led to the creation of many feminist organizations in the country, and SOFA was one of them. Founded on 22 February 1986, its mission is to fight for Haitian women to be freed from subordination, domination, exclusion and exploitation. To fulfill this mission, it works on several levels, such as accompanying victims of gender based violence. It also works to make women mobile and autonomous, by concrete tools such as gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Henry
Ariel Henry (; born 6 November 1949) is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who served as the acting Prime Minister of Haiti, prime minister of Haiti from Assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021 until his resignation on 24 April 2024, due to gangs actions taking more of the capital. During this period where the role of the President of Haiti was vacant, the Government of Haiti#Cabinet, Council of Ministers he presided exercised executive power. He also served as the acting Ministry of Interior and Territorial Communities (Haiti), Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities. Henry became involved in a controversy due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities regarding his connections with Joseph-Félix Badio, one of the suspects accused of orchestrating the assassination of Moïse. Officers who investigated the case suspected Henry was involved in planning the assassination. On 11 March 2024, Henry announced that he would resign w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Magloire Chancy
Adeline Magloire Chancy (born 4 April 1931) is a Haitian educator, feminist, and politician. She has worked to promote the recognition of Haitian Creole as a valid language in its own right. Chancy is a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy and served as Haiti's minister for the feminine condition and women's rights from 2004 to 2006. Early life Adeline Magloire was born in 1931 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in the suburb of Pétion-Ville. Her father was an architect and her mother was a teacher. Her sisters were Nicole Magloire and Denise Magloire Fouchard, both of whom also became feminist activists. Chancy studied at L'École Normale Supérieure, a constituent school of the Université d'État d'Haïti, as well as at the university's law school. Career In the early 1960s, Chancy became an activist for democracy and women's rights under the Duvalier dictatorship, organizing with the Committee of Patriotic Women and the Unified Democratic Front. This peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Laurence Josselyn Lassègue
Marie-Laurence Josselyn Lassègue (born 1955) is a Haitian journalist, feminist and politician. Biography Early life and career Marie-Laurence Josselyn Lassègue was born on 1 March 1955 in Port-au-Prince. She spent her childhood in Zaire after her parents fled the dictatorship of François Duvalier. After graduating with her ''baccalauréat'', she continued her studies in France. She earned a master's degree in literature from the University of Franche-Comté and a degree in legal science from the Université Publique du Sud in Les Cayes, Haiti. While in France, Lassègue joined the feminist movement. Following the rape of two of her friends, she became a volunteer worker with ''SOS femmes battues violées'' in Strasbourg from 1975 to 1978. At the age of 25, she co-founded the ''Solidarité femme'' women's shelter in Besançon, which ran from 1980 to 1983. Lassègue began her professional life as a teacher in 1978 when she returned to Africa; she taught literature at the Lycé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an open source content management system designed for creating books. It is based on WordPress, and can export content in many formats for ebooks, webbooks or print. History Pressbooks is developed by Book Oven, Inc., a Montreal-based company founded in 2011 by Hugh McGuire (who also founded the audio book platform LibriVox). Originally aimed at self-publishing authors, in 2017 Pressbooks shifted its focus to work with universities on academic and textbook publishing. Overview The software is built on WordPress Multisite with modification of the admin and reader interfaces to reflect the intention of authoring books, a choice of themes for formating books, and to allow the export of books in print-ready PDF, mobi, ePub, and many other open formats. It is available as a hosted service for self-publishers (pressbooks.com), supported institutional hosting (PressbooksEdu), third party hosts, or self-hosting of the software available from pressbooks.org. Pressbook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Hyacinthe
Gabrielle Hyacinthe is a Haitian politician who held a number of offices under the presidency of Michel Martelly and subsequent provisional governments. Political career In February 2012, Hyacinthe was appointed by President Michel Martelly to head the municipal commission of Port-au-Prince, making her the ''de facto'' mayor of the city. In August of the same year, she was appointed Director General of the Permanent Electoral Council, from which she aimed to improve political transparency and oversee free and fair elections in the country. In January 2014, she was dismissed from her post without explanation. In April 2014, she was appointed Secretary of State for Youth and Civic Action, a post from which she aimed to support youth employment initiatives and encourage greater civic engagement among young people. In November 2015, she became Minister for the Status of Women and Women's Rights in the provisional government led by Evans Paul Evans Paul (born 26 November 1955), als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Françoise Suzan
Marie-Françoise or Marie Françoise is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget (1900–1991), French actress *Marie Françoise Sophie Gay (1776–1852), French author *Marie-Françoise André, French geographer * Marie-Françoise Audollent (1943–2008), French actress *Marie-Françoise Baslez (1946–2022), French historian and academic *Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon (1711–1786), French noblewoman *Marie-Françoise Bechtel (born 1946), French politician *Marie-Françoise Bougaran (1850–1875), French serial killer *Marie-Françoise Bucquet (1937–2018), French pianist *Marie-Françoise Clergeau (born 1948), French politician *Marie-Françoise Corot (1768–1851), French fashion designer *Marie-Françoise Dubois (born 1948), French middle-distance runner *Marie-Françoise Grange-Prigent (born 1961), French canoeist *Marie-Françoise Guédon, Canadian anthropologist and professor of religious studies *Marie-François ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
