Aristide demands restitution of Haiti’s independence debt

Following the assassination of President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, U.S. Marines landed in Haiti on 28 July 1915. The occupation brought U.S. control over Haitian finances and later created the...

Charlemagne Péralte, a Haitian nationalist leader of the Caco resistance to U.S. occupation, was killed by U.S. Marines overnight on 31 October–1 November 1919. Sources differ in whether they date his...

At Marchaterre near Les Cayes, U.S. Marines opened fire on a peaceful peasant demonstration on 6 December 1929, killing between 12 and 22 people according to the Sciences Po Mass Violence and...

The 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...

The final contingent of U.S. Marines withdrew from Haiti on 15 August 1934, ending the nineteen-year military occupation. The transfer followed prolonged Haitian opposition, including rural...

Haiti ratified ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour on 19 July 2007. The convention requires urgent action against slavery-like practices, trafficking, forced or compulsory...

A 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...

A 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...

At 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....

Haiti’s Law No. CL/2014-0010 was published in the official gazette Le Moniteur on 2 June 2014. It established measures to prevent trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect survivors, addressing...