User:GRuban/Suzy Castor
Suzy Castor (sometimes Suzie Castor)[1] is a Haitian historian and human rights activist.[2] She is a founder and co-director of the non-governmental organization CRESFED (Centre de Recherche et de Formation Économique et Sociale pour le Développement, in English, the Research and Training Center for Economic and Social Development).[3][4]
In 2005, she was awarded the Juan María Bandrés Award of the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (CEAR).[5]
Family[edit]
Castor is the widow of Haitian political leader Gérard Pierre-Charles.[5] They had three sons and one daughter before his death in 2004.[6] Castor's sister Paula Castor Gourgue is married to Gérard Gourgue, who was named provisional president of Haiti in a dispute of the 2000 elections.[7] Castor's sister, Myrtho Pompée, was assassinated in July 2012.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Le Massacre de 1937 et les Relations Haitiano-Dominicaines, 1988
- L'occupation américaine d'Haiti. Port-au-Prince; Société Haitienne d'Histoire, 1988
References[edit]
- ^ EFE. "Confían Haití saldrá de crisis". Hoy (Dominican newspaper) (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ Daudier, Valéry (9 December 2013). "Un « génocide civil » en République dominicaine ?". Le Nouvelliste. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ Neptune, Claude. "Introduction de S. Castor par Dr. Claude Neptune". Aquin Development Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ Rohter, Larry (August 14, 1994). "The World; Haiti Is a Land Without a Country". New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^ a b "L'historienne haïtienne Suzy Castor, récompensée en Espagne pour sa militance à la cause des réfugiés, de la démocratie et des droits des femmes". AlterPresse. 2 September 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ Harding, Colin (23 October 2004). "Gérard Pierre-Charles - Obituaries - News - The Independent". The Independent. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "Rival leader challenges Aristide to arrest him". The Miami Herald. March 23, 2001. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "La sœur de l'historienne Suzy Castor assassinée, son chauffeur grièvement blessé sur la route de l'aéroport - Radio Kiskeya". Radio Kiskeya (in French). 21 July 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2014.