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haitian-advocacy · Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition

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  • Members: 802
  • Category: Human Rights
  • Founded: Jul 11, 1999
  • Language: English
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Advocacy for Haitian Nationals currently living in the United States under the U.S Constitution and International Law. Scope include but not limited to the defense of Human Rights and Civil Rights of Haitians in the United States and some Caribbean Islands through direct action and national education campaign on issues impacting their wellbeing. The Haitian-Advocacy forum is a partner organization of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition (HAGC), an umbrella group made of non-governmental and private sector organizations established in the State of Florida and New York, the two states with the highest number of Haitian Nationals.

The Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition has played key role to ensure passage of the Haitian Refugee Immigrant Fairness Act of 1998, (HRIFA), a landmark legislation providing residency to 50,000 Haitian Refugees who fled their homeland in the 1990's due to political turmoil. The Coalition has been actively involved with the Census 2000 initiative, a national campaign to get minorities and communities of interest to get counted in the U.S Census 2000. As a result, Florida is identified as the state with the largest population of Haitians and West-Indians.

The Coalition has engaged the Miami-Dade County government and the State of Florida to get Haitian-americans to be equal partner in the political process as far as self-representation on the issue of redistricting.

HAGC is a dynamic social movement that supports empowerment of Haitian Nationals through self-governance, participatory democracy, and works in partnerships with all groups that respect and treat Haitian expatriates as equal. HAGC is a civil society that is part of the Organization of American States (OAS) registry since 2006.

HAGC on-going issues are: Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Haitian Nationals, litigation in U.S Northern District Court of Florida regarding the Florida no-match no-vote, a law that impacts haitians/latinos.

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2009 42 15 71 53 41 83 77 92 132 201 185 172
2008 98 124 143 179 85 116 75 96 94 70 17 12
2007 56 59 95 163 153 42 75 91 84 81 46 117
2006 68 74 48 59 62 26 29 55 174 84 128 74
2005 85 82 77 138 83 89 75 57 60 58 64 33
2004 27 48 122 97 98 120 70 85 96 187 127 101
2003 93 118 122 126 138 139 184 90 57 148 87 144
2002 100 72 97 124 130 90 171 148 183 205 131 103
2001 48 40 63 14 39 60 47 37 48 63 59 117
2000 149 112 181 102 115 70 71 35 56 69 46 57
1999 16 25 59 44 53 47
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