Sexual and reproductive rights
Abortion is criminalized in Haiti and menstruation is still taboo, and Women have died from clandestine procedures because of it. The program campaigns for abortion that is legal, safe and free, works through Sang Trêve for menstrual dignity, and uses theater to open the conversation.
Advocacy against the discriminatory and sexist practices that surround menstruation. Since November 2025.
Working for abortion that is legal, safe, accessible and free.
A play by Joeanne Joseph, used as an instrument of advocacy since 2022.
Reliable information on safe abortion, through the Marrainage Program.
Criminalization, prejudice and silence obstruct even the care that follows.
Advocacy for a law on menstrual leave in Haiti.
Reproductive Justice is the program. Sang Trêve and Safe Abortion Access are its two projects, and Danta, the play, is the instrument it takes into communities.
Maternal deaths have followed abortions carried out in dangerous and clandestine conditions, and NÈGÈS MAWON works actively so that abortion is legal, safe, accessible and free: seeing abortion differently. Its criminalization, prejudice rooted in religious belief, and the lack of information obstruct even post-abortion care. The subject makes people uncomfortable, which is exactly why raising awareness of it became part of the organization’s advocacy.
The Sang Trêve project is part of an advocacy effort aimed at combating discriminatory and sexist practices surrounding menstruation, which affect many Haitian Women and Girls. Through educational and awareness-raising initiatives, it seeks to break down the taboos associated with menstruation and promote a genuine culture of menstrual dignity, so that menstruation is recognized as a natural part of life to be experienced with dignity and without discrimination.
On 30 May 2026, with RÈG Ayiti, the program held the first Menstruation Fair in Haiti on Place Saint-Pierre in Pétion-Ville: stands, open discussion, and a demand put plainly by secretary general Hogla Chérisier, that the authorities recognize menstrual dignity as a fundamental right and legislate menstrual leave.
Sang Trêve: sang is blood, trêve is a truce. Said aloud it is also sans trêve, without respite.
Since November 2025
Educational and awareness-raising work to break the taboos around menstruation and win recognition of menstrual dignity, in the public square and in law.
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A play, since July 2022
Joeanne Joseph’s play, presented at the Festival Féministe in July 2022 and used since as a tool of awareness and advocacy for the decriminalization of abortion.
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