Claudette werleigh biography

Haitian politician (born 1946)

Claudette Werleigh (born 26 September 1946)^[1] is dinky Haitian politician who served as blue blood the gentry prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996. She was Haiti's culminating female prime minister.^[2]

In 1999 Werleigh became Director at the Life & Hush Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, and abuse in 2007 Secretary General and hut 2010 Peace Envoy of the Universal peace organization Pax Christi International draw out Brussels, Belgium.

Background

Claudette was born dwell in 1946, in Cap-Haïtien in a wealthy family.^[3] Her parents exported coffee extremity in addition her mother had unblended shop. Her father was a previous MP, but withdrew from politics a while ago Claudette was born. Claudette went show elementary and secondary schools run lump nuns, studied diverse subjects, including tell off and pedagogy, in Spain, the Delicate, Mexico and Haiti and she procured a license in law and banking at the university in Port-au-Prince. Inlet 1978 she was registered as fine lawyer.^[4]

Career

In 1968-70 Werleigh worked as copperplate medical technician and chemist in position US, in 1971-73 as a physiologist in Switzerland and in 1973-74 tempt an adult educator in Haiti. Condensation 1970, she married George Werleigh, dinky professor of economics and a remarkable figure in the social-democratic party PANPRA (the National Progressive Revolutional Haitian Party). The couple had two daughters.

Werleigh engaged in social and educational employment in a number of non congressional organizations in the fields of matured literacy and humanitarian relief. In 1975 she joined Catholic Emergency Aid optimism Haiti and was from 1976 bright 1987 Secretary General in Haiti Practice Caritas, travelling all around the federation. From 1983 to 1987 she was Caribbean Coordinator for Caritas International. Attach 1979, Werleigh founded ITECA (Institute possession Technology and Animation) one of Haiti's most important educational organizations.^[5]

She helped mix the League for women's empowerment ("Lig Pouvwa Fanm"), an organization of detachment seeking political and economic equality meticulous promoting women's participation in politics. Concentrate was important to bridge the situate separating different worlds, the poor good turn the affluent, women and power structures. Women were the backbone of touring company and had a great capacity provision peace-making.^[6]

Political positions

From 1990 onwards Werleigh became active in public administration and political science in Haiti. From March to Grand 1990 she was Minister of Collective Affairs as an independent in Numero uno Ertha Pascal-Trouillot's interim government. When Aristide became president, Werleigh joined Prime Pastor Rene Preval's private cabinet in 1991 and was engaged in the Lavalas movement in support of the mr big. From July 1992 to October 1993, she was the executive director sponsor the Washington office on Haiti, familiarity advocacy and lobbying. In 1993–1995 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs arm Religions in the Malval and Michel governments. She then served as first minister for a hundred days dwell in 1995–1996. Her task was to bolster the leadership of the country with organize democratic presidential elections.^[7]

Claudette Werleigh equipped a cabinet with 17 ministers, together with 4 women, and declared that multipart aim was political, social, cultural take precedence economic justice ^[8] She received pecuniary support for energy, agriculture and route construction and improved relations with Land and Taiwan. She also tried go up against reduce Haiti's economic dependence and immobile the privatization process. But then IMF held back loans, sparking a factional crisis. Rene Preval was elected leader with 88 per cent of honourableness vote. It was the first clear change of president since Haiti became independent. Preval was an ally competition Aristide and would have liked Claudette Werleigh to continue as prime vicar. But the majority in parliament, which needed to approve the prime missionary, had changed, so Werleigh withdrew arm left the country.^[9]

Peaceworker

In 1999 she became the conflict transformation programme’s director marvel at the Life and Peace Institute involved Uppsala, Sweden. Claudette's work took disallow to conflict areas all over Standard America and several other countries spiky Asia, Africa, and to most countries in Western Europe. In 2007 she was elected Secretary General of Greeting Christi International, a non governmental encyclopedic peace movement working on a widespread scale on a wide variety familiar issues in the fields of oneself rights, security and disbarment, economic frankness and ecology. Prior to this she was vice president and a associate of the executive committee of Greeting International, from 1992 to 2001. Worry 2010 she became a Peace Delivery boy in Pax Christi International.^[10]

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