Nègès Mawon celebrates 10 years of women’s rights activism in Haiti

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Nègès Mawon, based in 2015, continued its tenth-anniversary celebrations with an open home on Nov. 22 that introduced collectively dozens for debates, interactive video games, and exhibitions honoring main milestones in Haitian ladies’s rights, together with the 1950 proper to vote, the 1987 constitutional assure of equality, and the 1997 Belém do Pará Conference.

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Ten years after it first emerged to defend ladies’s rights, Nègès Mawon marked its anniversary this month with a collection of occasions that underscored not only a milestone, however the rising urgency of its work.

The monthlong celebrations included an anniversary cocktail evening on Nov. 16 and an open-house gathering on Nov. 22—every designed to spotlight the progress of Haiti’s ladies’s motion and honor the leaders who helped form it.

Held on the group’s headquarters in Delmas 75, the open home introduced collectively a number of dozen ladies and ladies for conversations, interactive actions, and exhibitions showcasing the lives of historic feminine figures who formed Haiti’s social, political, and cultural panorama.

“The ten years of Nègès Mawon are 10 years of advocacy, of reviews on the state of affairs of girls and their rights in Haiti,” co-founder and nationwide coordinator Pascale Solages stated in the course of the group’s anniversary cocktail on Nov. 16.

“The one mission that issues to us is the safety, dignity, achievement, and humanity of Haitian ladies.”

“The ten years of Nègès Mawon are 10 years of advocacy, of reviews on the state of affairs of girls and their rights in Haiti. The one mission that issues to us is the safety, dignity, achievement, and humanity of Haitian ladies.”

Pascale Solages, co-founder and coordinator of Nègès Mawon

Based in 2015, Nègès Mawon has labored throughout Haiti to help survivors of violence, doc abuses, and practice youthful generations on their rights. During the last decade, the group has turn out to be a number one feminist voice at a time when political instability, deepening insecurity, and widespread displacement have disproportionately affected Haitian ladies.

Throughout the open home, individuals engaged in a vigorous question-and-answer recreation highlighting main victories within the ladies’s motion:
— the granting of girls’s proper to vote in 1950;
— equality earlier than the regulation established within the 1987 Structure;
— Haiti’s 1997 ratification of the Inter-American Conference of Belém do Pará, a landmark software for preventing gender-based violence.

The occasion additionally paid tribute to Haiti’s pioneering ladies’s rights organizations — together with SOFA (Solidarité Fanm Ayisyèn) and Kay Fanm — which emerged after 1986 and laid the muse for the creation of the Ministry for the Standing of Girls and Girls’s Rights (MCFDF) in 1994.

Heroic figures equivalent to Sanité Bélair, Catherine Flon, and Marie-Claire Heureuse Dessalines had been honored for his or her central roles in Haiti’s independence and for uplifting generations of girls to say their place within the nation’s political and social life.

Under are scenes from Nègès Mawon’s Tenth-anniversary open home:

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