Haiti - Elections : Accessibility and electoral participation, of people with special needs - HaitiLibre.com : Haiti news 7/7





iciHaiti - Football : FIFA / CONCACAF seminar on the license of D1 clubs

iciHaiti - Humanitarian : Supply of essential supplies increasingly difficult

iciHaiti - Special D1 Championship : Complete results of the first 9 days

iciHaiti - Florida : Interception of a luxury yacht filled with Haitian migrants

iciHaiti - USA : An AC-130 military plane lands in Port-au-Prince


more news


Haiti - News : Zapping...

Haiti - Education : 44 million to «offer young Haitians a better future

Haiti - FLASH : Cases of suicidal tendencies becoming more and more frequent

Haiti - FLASH : Ron DeSantis announces the successful evacuation of 722 Americans from Haiti

Haiti - FLASH : 312,000 Haitian refugees and asylum seekers around the world


more news


Haiti - Elections : Accessibility and electoral participation, of people with special needs
06/04/2015 12:52:20

Haiti - Elections : Accessibility and electoral participation, of people with special needs
During a training BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) organized with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), Ketizia Brunard (one-handed since the 2010 earthquake), Secretary of the National Associative Network for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities, encouraged the authorities to launch a census of the people with special needs to give them the opportunity to participate in the electoral process "I hope the people with reduced mobility will we able to contribute to elect the next leaders of the country [...] To facilitate the participation of people with special needs, the leaders could experiment the electronic voting or through the mobile phone or even set up in each municipality special offices."

Recall that the BRIDGE trainings are part of the program of support to the electoral process implemented by UNDP with funding from the Government of Haiti, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mexico and the European Union which aims to strengthen the capacity of public institutions especially in the field of elections. In 2014, more than 40 election officials have had the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the electoral administration, to deepen the issues of gender and disability access to the political and electoral process, and think about sustainable solutions for regular elections, free and transparent.

The BRIDGE training will continue throughout 2015 and focus on youth participation, the diaspora and especially women, because although constituting 52% of the Haitian population, they are still too often relegated to the background of the social, political and economic affairs.
Haiti was only 5 women deputies, or 4% of the Lower House, ranking the country at the 138th position globally, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Note that according to Handicap International, in Haiti, nearly 4,000 people had to be amputated a member after the earthquake of 12 January 2010.

HL/ HaitiLibre

Twitter Facebook Rss
Send news to... Daily news...




Why HaitiLibre ? | Contact us | Français
Copyright © 2010 - 2024
Haitilibre.com