Expert Questionnaire on Historical Legacies
in Haiti’s Humanitarian Crisis

The UN Permanent Forum of People of African Descent 

This questionnaire is to collect expert advice for a position paper by the United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) on the historical legacies in Haiti’s current humanitarian crisis. The position paper will serve as the basis for discussion on the subject at the United Nations.

Responses to this questionnaire should be sent as a Word-document to pfpad@un.org by Friday 24 February 2023. Please provide footnotes with references to sources of any historical facts mentioned in your response or other statements in your response that may need to be substantiated (and preferably by following the style outlined in the United Nations Editorial Manual). Any experts whose responses to this questionnaire are used in the PFPAD position paper will be acknowledged in it (unless the expert (s) prefer to remain anonymous).

For further information concerning this questionnaire or the position paper, please contact the Secretariat at the above mentioned address or Independent Expert Members of the Forum Gaynel Curry (gaynelcurry@gmail.com) and Michael McEachrane (mceachrane@gmail.com).

1.      What is your first and last name, title, and institutional or organizational affiliation?

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2.      If PFPAD makes use of your response to this questionnaire in its position paper, would you like to be acknowledged by name in it?

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3.      How, if at all, would you say that Haiti’s history of colonialism, enslavement, external debts, foreign occupation and/or domination has contributed to the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti?

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4.      Do you think that this history needs to be considered when addressing Haiti’s current humanitarian crisis? If so, why, and how?

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5.      Do you think that Haiti is owed reparatory justice/reparations for the impact of historical injustices on Haiti and its people? Why or why not?

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6.      If you do think that Haiti and its people are owed reparatory justice, which forms do you think that it should take? (For example, the CARICOM Reparations Justice Program?)

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7.  What, if anything, do you think that the United Nations can and should do to address the historical legacies in Haiti’s humanitarian crisis?

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