RNDDH Position Port-au-Prince, Marche 25, 2021

The Constitution of 1987, considered by many as the most democratic constitution of Haiti’s entire history, was approved by referendum on March 29th, 1987. The reception by the population of this new mother law crystallized the main demands of the Haitian people to the fall of the thirty-year dictatorship of Duvalier. It heralded a new era to be characterized by democracy and the promotion of fundamental rights and freedoms. However, it was both nationally and internationally a challenge and even an affront, because for many people it was too democratic…