Haitian Women between repression and democracy contains selected articles from Ayiti Fanm, an all-Creole newspaper. It was published for the first time in 1991, just one month before the September 29 coup orchestrated by General Raoul Cédras against President Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first freely and consitutionally elected President. Ever since, we have lived to experience and denounce the situation of violence our population has been subjected to as well as its consequences on our society's opportunities for a better future.

Thus, the structural theme around which this work develops is violence perpetrated against women, which, on the international level, is one of the major issues for the feminist movement, analyzed by many international organizations under the aegis of the United Nations. This theme currently occupies one of the priority chapters of the Beijing Platform for Action to be voted on by the official delegations this coming September. In this regard, our national concerns are shared by the international women's movement, and in particular by women from the South.