Haiti Democracy Project

06/07/2025

https://www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/james-jim-morrell

James Robert Morrell, 80, was born in Philadelphia and died in Milwaukee on May 31, 2025. He is survived by his son, David Misterek daughter-in-law, Amira Ameen granddaughter, Ella grandson, Lucas and life partner, Judith Gaskell. He also left behind his sister Ann Morrell and husband Bill Gillen, a...

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/03/we-mark-international-womens-day-2023

Our Women Candidates Project and sister organizations protest violence toward women and call for a fair share of governance

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/02/haiti-projects-push-for-international-aid

Since 2017 the Haiti project has consistently pushed first for retaining, then returning the U.N. mission to Haiti to avert complete disaster. Here we reprise our recent published articles and also look back on our earlier efforts to save Haitian elections

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/elegy-for-the-fallen-police

By Dr. Frantz Large, valued participant in the Haiti Democracy Project's 2009 conference for a Strategy of National Salvation. "Ce soir notre cœur se serre pour la disparition au Champ d'honneur des agents de la PNH . . .Ce soir, des épouses se retrouvent sans mari, et leurs pauvres mains chercher...

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/police-attacked-in-their-homes

De nombreux policiers ont fui leurs domiciles pour échapper à la colère des bandits. Les bandits ont incendié des résidences et entreprises appartenant à des policiers

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/u-n-haiti-needs-international-force-to-beat-the-gangs

Le besoin d’appui par une force internationale spécialisée « demandée par le gouvernement haïtien depuis octobre sans réponse concrète: La réalité est que sans ce déploiement international, opérant de manière intégrée avec la Police, les effets très positifs du processus politique...

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/can-the-police-cope-without-foreign-help-y-n

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/seven-more-police-killed

They were killed defending a police station in the Artibonite on January 25 as 150 gang members stormed it. Since January 10 almost one policeman per day has fallen. Disaffected police threatened the prime minister's office and the airport. Some arms sent to the police have ended up in the hands of....

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/what-must-be-done-for-haiti-to-survive-2

By the Haiti Democracy Project for the Inter-American Dialogue. Washington is living in a dream world. It believes it can fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian and the Haitian gangs to the last Canadian. It believes that Haiti will conveniently go away next year, a U.S. election year. It's time t...

03/18/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/u-n-secretary-generals-warning

"Gang-related violence reached levels not seen in decades . . . Armed gangs sought to expand their influence into neighbourhoods of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area that were considered relatively safe until recently . . . Despite the end of the siege of the Varreux oil terminal, I reiterate the...

01/25/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/u-n-secretary-generals-warning

01/25/2023

https://haitipolicy.org/2023/01/four-police-killed

A driver was also killed and another policeman injured in Petionville on Friday, January 20. Update: "Face à la puissance de feu des bandits du gang Krazé barrière, 3 policiers ont été tués et un autre porté disparu." The tragedy is sowing discord between the top brass and the rank-and-file