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Government of Haiti
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Boyer issues the Code Rural
đź“… 6 May 1826The Code Rural, issued at the National Palace on 6 May 1826, sought to bind cultivators to plantation production through contracts and rural policing. Later scholarship documents penalties for...
Forbes Commission report recommends gradual U.S. withdrawal
📅 26 March 1930The U.S. President’s Commission for the Study and Review of Conditions in Haiti, chaired by William Cameron Forbes, submitted its report on 26 March 1930. The report emerged after mass opposition...
Aristide demands restitution of Haiti’s independence debt
đź“… 7 April 2003On 7 April 2003, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide publicly demanded that France return the money Haiti had been compelled to pay after independence. The demand placed the 1825 indemnity and its...
UN report identifies restavèk child domestic servitude as a contemporary form of slavery
📅 4 September 2009A UN Human Rights Council report dated 4 September 2009 followed a June mission to Haiti. Special Rapporteur Gulnara Shahinian described the restavèk system—children placed in other households in...
Earthquake displacement heightens children’s exposure to exploitation
đź“… 12 January 2010A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, killing and displacing large numbers of people and disrupting family care, schooling, and social services. UNICEF warned in its...
CARICOM agrees regional reparations action, including Haiti
đź“… 6 July 2013At the close of its 34th regular meeting on 6 July 2013, CARICOM heads of government agreed to establish national reparations committees in member states and a regional CARICOM Reparations Commission....
U.S. trafficking report records weak enforcement against child servitude
📅 15 June 2023The U.S. Department of State’s 2023 Trafficking in Persons report, published 15 June 2023, documented ongoing forced labor in child domestic service, commonly called restavek, and criticized the...
UNICEF reports children make up a large share of armed-group membership
📅 28 May 2024On 28 May 2024, UNICEF reported that children constituted an estimated 30–50 percent of members of armed groups in Haiti, exposed to coercion, abuse, and exploitation. The finding connects the...
UNICEF reports a sharp rise in child recruitment by armed groups
đź“… 25 November 2024On 25 November 2024, UNICEF said recruitment of children into armed groups in Haiti had risen by 70 percent in one year. The agency linked the increase to escalating violence and described children as...
Haiti creates a National Committee on Restitution and Reparation
📅 17 April 2025A decree published in Haiti’s official gazette on 17 April 2025 created the Comité National Haïtien de Restitution et Réparation (CNHRR). Its mandate is to develop economic, financial, legal, and...
France announces a joint commission to examine the indemnity’s history and impact
đź“… 17 April 2025On 17 April 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that the 1825 indemnity imposed a price on Haitian freedom and announced a mixed Franco-Haitian commission of historians. The commission...
Haiti appoints historian Gusti-Klara Gaillard Pourchet to co-chair the joint commission
📅 8 August 2025A Haitian presidential decree published on 8 August 2025 named historian Gusti-Klara Gaillard Pourchet as co-chair of the Haitian side of the Franco-Haitian historians’ commission and set out its...
Haiti formally installs its national restitution and reparation committee
📅 8 September 2025On 8 September 2025, Haiti’s transitional presidential council formally installed the CNHRR, moving the committee created by the April decree into active public work. The committee’s mandate links...