Anne-Marie Coriolan
Anne Marie Coriolan (1956 – January 12, 2010) was a Haitian feminist and activist. Coriolan founded the advocacy organization Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (Haitian Women's Solidarity). She served as assistant cabinet chief and then senior advisor for the Haitian Ministry of Women's Affairs. Later, she went on to found the organization, Solidarity with Haitian Women, which stood to help women that have suffered from violence. Coriolan had also worked to establish protections for domestic laborers as well as working to improve equality for women in marriages. She helped change the law in Haiti so that rape became a punishable offence instead of being viewed as a "crime of passion". She also founded the Centre de Recherche et d'Action pour le Développement (Center for Research and Action for Development), an education and training organization. Coriolan died at the age of 53 in the 2010 Haiti earthquake A disaster, catastrophic Moment magnitude scale, magnitude 7.0 Mw ...
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Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration."Haiti"
''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Haiti is in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribb ...
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