Claudette werleigh biography
- Claudette Werleigh (born 26 September 1946) is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996.
- She served as executive director of the Washington Office on Haiti from 1992 to 1993 and minister of foreign and religious affairs in Haiti from 1993 to 1995.
- Claudette Werleigh (born 26 September 1946) is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996.
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Claudette Werleigh
Haitian politician (born 1946)
Claudette Werleigh (born 26 September 1946)[1] is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996. She was Haiti's first female prime minister.[2]
In 1999 Werleigh became Director at the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, and then in 2007 Secretary General and in 2010 Peace Envoy of the Catholic peace organization Pax Christi International in Brussels, Belgium.
Background
Claudette was born in 1946, in Cap-Haïtien in a well-to-do family.[3] Her parents exported coffee and in addition her mother had a shop. Her father was a former MP, but withdrew from politics before Claudette was born. Claudette went to elementary and secondary schools run by nuns, studied diverse subjects, including medicine and pedagogy, in Spain, the US, Mexico and Haiti and she obtained a license in law and economics at the university in Port-au-Prince. In 1978 she was registered as a lawyer.[4]
Career
In 1968-70 Werleigh worked as a medical techni
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Werleigh, Claudette
Werleigh, Claudette
Politician, development and peace campaigner – Born in Cap-Haïtien in 1946, to a well-to-do family, Werleigh trained and studied medicine in the United States and Switzerland, before returning to Haiti to take a degree course in law and economics at the State University in Port-au-Prince. She then worked for a number of non-governmental organisations in the fields of adult literacy and humanitarian relief. From 1976-1987, she was secretary-general of Caritas Haiti, an organisation created in 1975 by the Haitian Bishops’ Conference to take practical steps to support the construction of a more just and equal society. During these years, the Catholic Church was instrumental in the development and growth of the anti-Duvalier and pro-democracy movement in Haiti. In the post-Duvalier period, Werleigh helped found the League for Women’s Empowerment (Lig Pouvwa Fanm), an organisation promoting the participation of women in politics. Describing her work to bridge the gulf separating different worlds – the poor and the affl
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In the following pages, you will find narrative stories about a Woman PeaceMaker, along with additional information to provide a deep understanding of a contemporary conflict and one person’s journey within it. These complementary components include a brief biography of the peacemaker, a historical summary of the conflict, a timeline integrating political developments in the country with personal history of the peacemaker, a question-and-answer transcript of select interviews, and a table of best practices in peacebuilding as demonstrated and reflected on by the peacemaker during her time at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice.
From literacy education in rural Haiti to her post as Haiti’s first female prime minister and on to secretary general of the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi International, Claudette Werleigh of Haiti has witnessed conflict and worked for peace in all corners of the world, with people from every strata of society. She is a peacemaker at every level.
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