Marie Giselhaine Mompremier

Haiti

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Haiti

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Women’s Rights Activist, Nurse, Law Clerk

Marie is the director of the Association Femmes Soleil d’Haïti (Sun Association of Women in Haiti, or AFASDA), an organization that promotes women’s rights and civic and political participation.

A career nurse, she trained as a law clerk and served as the departmental director of the Ministry for Women’s Rights in the North. In her current position she runs a program to combat violence against women. She is active in the Haitian Social Democratic Party and is currently running a second time for political office.