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Haitian Women’s Rights Leaders Killed in Haiti Quake!
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Haiti’s Fallen Queens
The earthquake claimed the lives of three of Haiti’s most prominent sheroes of women’s rights. Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of the country’s most important advocacy organizations working on behalf of women and girls, were confirmed dead.
One returned to her Haitian roots, to give voice to women, honor their stories and shape their futures. Another urged women to pack a courtroom in Haiti, where she succeeded in getting a guilty verdict against a man who battered his wife.
A third joined the others and helped change the law to make rape, long a political weapon in Haiti, a punishable crime.
Myriam Merlet
Author and Activist
Merlet fled Haiti in the s. She studied in Canada, steeping herself in economics, women’s issues, feminist theory and political sociology.
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In the mids, she returned to her homeland. “I felt the need to find out who I was and where my soul was. I chose to