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Myriam Merlet was one of three leading activists in the Haitian women’s movement who died, a victim of the earthquake. From CNN: Women’s movement mourns the death of 3 Haitian leaders Myriam Merlet was until recently the chief of staff of Haiti’s Ministry for Gender and the Rights of Women, established in 1995, and still served as a top adviser. She died after being trapped beneath her collapsed Port-au-Prince home, Charles said. She was 53. With Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan, 53, served as a top adviser to the women’s rights ministry. Coriolan, who died when her boyfriend’s home collapsed, was the founder of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (Solidarity with Haitian Women, or SOFA), described as an advocacy and services organization. Coriolan was a political organizer who helped bring rape — “an instrument of terror and war”— to the forefront of Haitian courts. Magalie Marcelin, a lawyer and actress who appeared in films and on stage, established Kay Fanm, a women’s rights organization that deals with domestic violence, offers services and shelter to women and makes microcredits, or loans, available to women working in markets. Her death has been reported through various media outlets, and was confirmed to CNN by Carribbean Radio Television based in Port-au-Prince. Her own daughter helped dig her body out from rubble in the aftermath of the quake. (via kay-smith:caraobrien)

Myriam Merlet was one of three leading activists in the Haitian women’s movement who died, a victim of the earthquake.

From CNN: Women’s movement mourns the death of 3 Haitian leaders

  • Myriam Merlet was until recently the chief of staff of Haiti’s Ministry for Gender and the Rights of Women, established in 1995, and still served as a top adviser. She died after being trapped beneath her collapsed Port-au-Prince home, Charles said. She was 53.
  • With Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan, 53, served as a top adviser to the women’s rights ministry. Coriolan, who died when her boyfriend’s home collapsed, was the founder of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (Solidarity with Haitian Women, or SOFA), described as an advocacy and services organization. Coriolan was a political organizer who helped bring rape — “an instrument of terror and war”— to the forefront of Haitian courts.
  • Magalie Marcelin, a lawyer and actress who appeared in films and on stage, established Kay Fanm, a women’s rights organization that deals with domestic violence, offers services and shelter to women and makes microcredits, or loans, available to women working in markets. Her death has been reported through various media outlets, and was confirmed to CNN by Carribbean Radio Television based in Port-au-Prince. Her own daughter helped dig her body out from rubble in the aftermath of the quake.

(via kay-smith:caraobrien)

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