The politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic,where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. The politics of Haiti are considered historically unstable due to various coups d'état,regime changes,military juntas and internal conflicts. After Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed,Haitian politics became relatively stable. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Haiti an "authoritarian regime" in 2022. According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Haiti is 2023 the 4th least electoral democratic country in Latin America.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities,is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide. Its work includes developing national healthcare strategies and protocols,increasing access to birth control,and leading campaigns against child marriage,gender-based violence,obstetric fistula,and female genital mutilation.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
RenéGarcia Préval was a Haitian politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti,from early 1996 to early 2001,and again from mid-2006 to mid-2011. He was also Prime Minister from early to late 1991 under the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In the United Nations,the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 created following the Millennium Summit,following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. These were based on the OECD DAC International Development Goals agreed by Development Ministers in the "Shaping the 21st Century Strategy". The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeeded the MDGs in 2016.
Michel Joseph Martelly is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016.
John William Ashe was an Antiguan diplomat and politician. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session,which ran September 2013 to September 2014. He was also President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2012. He served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York of Antigua and Barbuda between 1995 and 2004.
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is a United Nations agency dedicated to implementing infrastructure and procurement projects for the United Nations System,international financial institutions,governments and other partners around the world. The organization's global headquarters is located at the UN City campus in Copenhagen,Denmark. UNOPS is in charge of disbursing more than $3 billion worth of development projects and contracts for its partners every year. Its activities have ranged from managing the construction of schools in Afghanistan,to building shelters in Haiti,to procuring ambulances to support the Ebola response in Liberia.
Ross Stewart Mountain has spent most of his career in the service of the United Nations working on humanitarian,recovery,development and peacekeeping operations in Asia,Africa,the Middle East,the Caribbean,and the Pacific as well as assignments based in Geneva,Switzerland promoting non-governmental action and managing UN humanitarian operations.
Jean-Max Bellerive is a Haitian politician and former Prime Minister of Haiti. He resigned on 14 May 2011.
Howard Steven Friedman is a prominent American statistician,data scientist,health economist,and writer who teaches at Columbia University
Laurent Salvador Lamothe is a Haitian businessman,technology entrepreneur,and political figure who has served in the government of Haiti as Foreign Minister beginning in October 2011,then as Prime Minister after appointment on 4 May 2012. On 14 December 2014,Lamothe resigned from his position as Prime Minister. Canada and the United States have imposed sanctions on him and accused him of corruption.
Daniel Gérard Rouzier is a Haitian tycoon. Rouzier runs several companies in different sectors in Haiti,including car dealers,and an electric power company;and is member of the executive board of PromoCapital;a Haitian bank. Rouzier is member of the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).
Corruption in Haiti occurs at one of the worst rates in the world. Corruption is a scourge that corrodes all attempts to establish a rule of law,a sustainable democracy,and to improve the quality of life of Haiti's people.
The Defence Force of Haiti was the envisaged name of the planned,reconstituted armed forces of the Republic of Haiti. Haiti had not had a regular armed forces since 1995;a process to reestablish them was initiated in 2011 and culminated in their remobilization in 2017.
Sustainable Development Goals is a post Millennium Development Goal agenda by experts in the world which will be implemented within the next 15 years until 2030. It has seventeen goals and 169 targets as a whole where SDG 3 deal with ensuring health lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Sustainable Development Goal 3 has nine targets and four sub targets related with different areas of health. One of the targets target 3.1 is a target to achieve a reduction of global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births .Maternal death is defined as "The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy,irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy,from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management,but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Armenia was admitted into the United Nations on 2 March 1992,following its independence from the Soviet Union. In December 1992,the UN opened its first office in Yerevan. Since then,Armenia has signed and ratified several international treaties. There are 20 specialized agencies,programs,and funds operating in the country under the supervision of the UN Resident Coordinator. Armenia strengthened its relations with the UN by cooperating with various UN agencies and bodies such as the International Monetary Fund,the World Bank,the World Food Programme,and with the financial institutions of the UN. Armenia is a candidate to preside as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 2031.
Brazil–Haiti relations are the current and historical relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Haiti. Both nations are members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Organization of American States and the United Nations.
Diene Keita is a former Minister for Cooperation and Africa Integration for Guinea. In June 2020,she was appointed deputy executive director for programmes,United Nations Population Fund,by Secretary-General of the United Nations,António Guterres. She has held leadership roles in United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),serving in several countries which includes;United States of America,Niger,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Haiti,Senegal,Ethiopia,Mauritania,Benin,Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.
Ariel Henry is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who has served as the acting prime minister of Haiti since 20 July 2021 after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. He later became involved in a controversy due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities over his links with Joseph-Félix Badio,one of the suspects accused of orchestrating the assassination of President Moïse on 7 July 2021. Officers who investigated the case suspected Henry was involved with planning the assassination.
