Enforc­ing the Right to Vote in Haiti

2010–2011  Elec­tions: IJDH Reports/Analysis | Other Analy­sis | Press Releases | Doc­u­men­ta­tion | Take Action | News

For 2009 Elec­tions, click here.

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Overview

The right to vote in free and fair elec­tions is a right guar­an­teed by Haiti’s 1987 Con­sti­tu­tion and bind­ing inter­na­tional law. We believe that Haitians’ right to vote will be severely vio­lated if the deci­sion of Haiti’s Pro­vi­sional Elec­toral Coun­cil (PEC), to exclude 14 par­ties from the Par­lia­men­tary elec­tions pre­vi­ously sched­uled for Feb­ru­ary and March 2010, is allowed to stand. We will con­tinue to post rel­e­vant mate­ri­als and poten­tial actions as they become avail­able. If you have addi­tional infor­ma­tion, please email us at info@ijdh.org.

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IJDH Reports and Analysis

• Sum­mary Sub­mis­sion to the UN Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review of Haiti (IJDH-BAI, Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work) — March 24, 2011
• Soumis­sion au Con­seil des Droits Humains des Nations Unies: Sur La Vio­la­tion Du Droit De Vote En Haïti: Les Elec­tions Qui Ne Reflè­tent Pas La Volonté Du Peu­ple (Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux, Canada Haiti Action Net­work, TransAfrica Forum, Louisiana Jus­tice Insti­tute) — March 24, 2011
• Hait­ian and Inter­na­tional Orga­ni­za­tions Call on US Admin­is­tra­tion to Sup­port Gen­uinely “Free, fair and cred­i­ble” Elec­tions in Haiti (IJDH and part­ners) — Feb­ru­ary 1, 2011
• Beat­rice Lind­strom, Beyond the Blue Hel­mets: Sta­bil­ity in Haiti Requires New Elec­tions — Jan­u­ary 13, 2011
• How to Rebuild Haiti after the Quake: 350 Words Each from IJDH Found­ing Board Mem­ber Paul Farmer, IJDH Direc­tor Brian Con­can­non, CARE’s Beat Rohr, and Trin­ity University’s Bob Maguire — Jan­u­ary 12, 2011
• Hold new, open, fair elec­tions — Jan­u­ary 3, 2011
• Haiti must have fair, demo­c­ra­tic new elec­tions — and the rav­aged nation can’t wait — Decem­ber 8, 2010
• Haiti’s Novem­ber 28 Elec­tions: Try­ing to Legit­imize the Ille­git­i­mate (IJDH) — Novem­ber 22, 2010
• Haiti’s Flawed Elec­tions: They Told Us So — Novem­ber 10, 2010
• Mem­bers of Con­gress are right to urge changes to Haiti’s flawed elec­toral process — Octo­ber 11, 2010
• Let­ter to Sec­re­tary Clin­ton Urg­ing “Free, Fair and Inclu­sive” Elec­tions in Haiti — Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010
• Unfair and Unde­mo­c­ra­tic — Sep­tem­ber 8, 2010
• The Inter­na­tional Com­mu­nity Should Sup­port Prompt and Fair Elec­tions in Haiti (1-Page Sum­mary) — July 27, 2010
• Prompt and Fair Elec­tions in Haiti: Pre­pared for Con­gres­sional Brief­ing (IJDH) — July 13, 2010
• The Inter­na­tional Com­mu­nity Should Pres­sure the Hait­ian Gov­ern­ment for Prompt and Fair Elec­tions (IJDH) — June 30, 2010
• Don’t honor tainted elec­tion — Decem­ber 11, 2009
• What’s At Stake in Haiti’s Decem­ber 3, 2006 Elec­tions: the ASEC Sys­tem — Novem­ber 1, 2006

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Other Analy­sis

• On the Vio­la­tion of Vot­ing Rights in Haiti: Elec­tions that Do Not Reflect the Will of the Peo­ple (Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux, Canada Haiti Action Net­work, TransAfrica Forum, Louisiana Jus­tice Insti­tute) — March 24, 2011
• Recon­struct­ing Democ­racy: Joint Report of Inde­pen­dent Elec­toral Mon­i­tors of Haiti’s Novem­ber 28, 2010 Elec­tion (IJDH and part­ners) — Feb­ru­ary 20, 2011
• Analy­sis of the OAS Mission’s Draft Report on Haiti’s Elec­tion (CEPR) — Jan­u­ary 26, 2011
• Haiti’s Fatally Flawed Elec­tion (CEPR) — Jan­u­ary 26, 2011
• US Will Pay for Hait­ian Vote Fraud (Boston Globe) — Decem­ber 15, 2010
• The Right to Vote: A Report Detail­ing the Hait­ian Elec­tions for Novem­ber 28, 2010 and March 2011 (Lamp for Haiti Foun­da­tion) — Novem­ber 23, 2010
• Con­gress­woman Waters & Col­leagues Urge Sec­re­tary Clin­ton to Sup­port Fair, Free, Inclu­sive Hait­ian Elec­tions — Octo­ber 7, 2010
• Urge Sec­re­tary Clin­ton to Sup­port Free, Fair and Inclu­sive Elec­tions in Haiti — Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010
• Haiti: No Lead­er­ship — No Elec­tions (U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Rela­tions) — June 10, 2010
• Inter­na­tional Cri­sis Group — New Report — Haiti: Sta­bil­i­sa­tion and Recon­struc­tion after the Quake — March 31, 2010
• Post-Disaster Assess­ment on the Fea­si­bil­ity of Orga­niz­ing Free and Fair Elec­tions in Haiti (USAID) — March 1, 2010
• Elec­tions With­out Vot­ers: Erod­ing Par­tic­i­pa­tion in Haiti — Jan­u­ary 6, 2010
• Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Jurists Urges OAS To With­draw Sup­port from Tainted Hait­ian Elec­tions — Jan­u­ary 4, 2010
• 81 U.S. Law Pro­fes­sors and Lawyers Urge UN Not to Sup­port Flawed Elec­tions in Haiti — Decem­ber 30, 2009
• Rep. Max­ine Waters Calls on Haiti’s Pres­i­dent Preval to Urge Fair Elec­tions — Decem­ber 23, 2009
• Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Demo­c­ra­tic Lawyers Urges UN to Com­ply With Law by Refus­ing to Sup­port Exclu­sive Hait­ian Elec­tions (Eng­lish and French) — Decem­ber 11, 2009

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Elec­tions Press Releases

• Ask Haitians whether vot­ers or big busi­ness chose their singing pres­i­dent (The Guardian) — July 6, 2011
• Press Release: Haiti’s March 20 Runoff Elec­tions Defy Democ­racy and Vio­late the Will of the Hait­ian Peo­ple (IJDH) — March 16, 2011
• Human Rights Group Notes that Haiti’s Elec­toral Coun­cil Did Not Approve Run-off Elec­tions (IJDH) — Feb­ru­ary 7, 2011
• “Big Set­back” for Hait­ian Democ­racy as U.S. Gets Its Way: Forces Runoff Elec­tions Between Two Right-wing Can­di­dates, CEPR Co-Director Says (CEPR) — Feb­ru­ary 3, 2011
• Con­gress­woman Waters Raises Doubts About Cred­i­bil­ity of Hait­ian Pre­lim­i­nary Elec­tion Results & Ques­tions About Way For­ward (Con­gress­woman Max­ine Waters) — Feb­ru­ary 3, 2011
• 19 Hait­ian and Inter­na­tional Groups Call on Obama Admin­is­tra­tion to Cease Pres­sure on Haiti to “Arbi­trar­ily Change” Elec­tion Results — Feb­ru­ary 1, 2011
• Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Task Force on For­eign Pol­icy and Inter­na­tional Affairs State­ment on Haiti Elec­tions & OAS Report (CBC) — Feb­ru­ary 1, 2011
• Cony­ers Applauds Sec­re­tary Clinton’s Visit to Haiti (Office of Con­gress­man John Cony­ers Jr.) — Feb­ru­ary 1, 2011
• “Sad Day for Hait­ian Democ­racy” as U.S. Threat­ens to Cut Off Aid to Haiti in Order to Reverse its Elec­tion Results, CEPR Co-Director Says (CEPR) — Jan­u­ary 25, 2011
• Con­gress­woman Waters Opposes Plot to Con­trol Haiti Urges Pros­e­cu­tion of Duva­lier for Human Rights Vio­la­tions and New Elec­tions that Respect the Will of the Hait­ian Peo­ple (U.S. Con­gress­woman Max­ine Waters) — Jan­u­ary 18, 2011
• CEPR Pub­lishes Analy­sis of OAS Report Find­ing Seri­ous Flaws, Unsup­ported Con­clu­sions by the OAS Mis­sion (The Cen­ter for Eco­nomic Pol­icy Research) — Jan­u­ary 17, 2011
• Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI) Con­demns Fraud on Elec­tion Day (Eng­lish and French) — Decem­ber 15, 2010
• Haiti Needs New, Cred­i­ble Elec­tions Run By A New, Cred­i­ble Elec­toral Coun­cil — Novem­ber 29, 2010
• Press Overview: Elec­toral Process Devel­op­ments — Novem­ber 24, 2010
• IJDH Releases Com­pre­hen­sive Report: Haiti’s Novem­ber 28 Elec­tions: Try­ing to Legit­imize the Ille­git­i­mate — Novem­ber 23, 2010
• Report Issued on the Role of the Inter­na­tional Com­mu­nity in Ensur­ing Fair Elec­tions in Haiti — July 5, 2010

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Doc­u­men­ta­tion: Com­pli­ance with Elec­toral Procedures

• MINUSTAH Press Release #398 on Elec­tions (French and Eng­lish) — Novem­ber 30, 2009
• Let­ter from For­mer Pres­i­dent Jean-Bertrand Aris­tide to CEP, Con­firm­ing Man­date of Maryse Nar­cisse (Eng­lish and French) — Novem­ber 18, 2009
• Let­ter from 35 Orga­ni­za­tions and Promi­nent Indi­vid­u­als to Sec­re­taries Gen­eral Ban Ki-Moon and Jose Miguel Insulza Sup­port­ing Inclu­sive Elec­tions in Haiti — June 2, 2009

• HaitiElections2010.com
• Polit­i­cal Par­ties Per­mit­ted to Par­tic­i­pate in February-March 2010 Elec­tions, Pro­vi­sional Elec­toral Council
• Elec­toral Cal­en­dar, February-March 2010 Elec­tions, Pro­vi­sional Elec­toral Council

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Take Action to Help Ensure Free and Fair Elec­tions in Haiti

• Half Hour for Haiti Action Alert: Sign a Peti­tion to State Depart­ment Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills to Demand that the U.S. Lis­ten to the Hait­ian Peo­ple and Sup­port New Elec­tions! — Jan­u­ary 11, 2011
• Sign the peti­tion: U.S. must ensure free, fair and inclu­sive elec­tions in Haiti as con­di­tion for fund­ing — Novem­ber 11, 2010
• Half Hour for Haiti Action Alert: Help Rep. Max­ine Waters Stop U.S. Tax­pay­ers’ Good Money From Going to Bad Elec­tions in Haiti! — Sep­tem­ber 29, 2010

• Haiti: Flawed Elec­tion in the Mak­ing, CHAN Action
  • Canada-Haiti Action Net­work, Decem­ber 28, 2009
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• Hait­ian People’s Appeal for Fair Elec­tions– Peti­tion, Decem­ber 11, 2009

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News

• The CBC’s Nil Kok­sal speaks with Nicole Phillips of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti (CBC) — July 19, 2011
• Wik­iLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraud­u­lent Haiti Elec­tion (The Nation) — June 8, 2011
• The Impo­si­tion of Martelly, the Recon­sti­tu­tion of the Army, and the Restora­tion of Duva­lier (San Fran­cisco Bay View) — June 8, 2011
• Martelly: Haiti’s Sec­ond Great Dis­as­ter (Al Jazeera) — May 4, 2011
• Michel Martelly’s Short Hon­ey­moon (The Fresh Out­look) — May 3, 2011
• IJDH Direc­tor, Brian Con­can­non Dis­cusses Haiti’s Elec­tion Results on Upris­ing Radio — April 25, 2011
• Nicole Phillips on KPFA Radio dis­cusses March 20 Fraud­u­lent Elec­tions (KPFA Radio) — March 21, 2011
• Puz­zling US Stand on Haiti’s Aris­tide (Trinidad Express) — March 19, 2011
• Sov­er­eignty, Sta­bil­ity and Sweet Micky: What is Going on in Haiti? (Huff­in­g­ton Post) — March 11, 2011
• Ira Kurzban, In Defense of Aris­tide (Miami Her­ald) — Feb­ru­ary 14, 2011

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2010–2011  Elec­tions: IJDH Reports/Analysis | Other Analy­sis | Press Releases | Doc­u­men­ta­tion | Take Action | News

For 2009 Elec­tions, click here.