Talk:Sexual violence in Haiti

A fact from Sexual violence in Haiti appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 March 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 14% of Haitian households reported having at least one member who suffered sexual violence in Haiti between the January 2010 earthquake and January 2012?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sexual violence in Haiti.

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To do

Flesh out Spanish Hispaniola
Flesh out Revolutionary period
- Any violence against slaves?
- Anything more than rumors?
Flesh out Duvaliers
- Done especially Papa
Images
- Done Spanish Hispaniola?
- Saint Domingue?
- Post-earthquake health?

delldot ∇. 21:38, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tontons Macoutes

If info about sexual violence by Tontons Macoutes can be located, add: Papa Doc Duvalier employed an organization of ex-soldiers, criminals, and other loyalists to his regime called Tontons Macoutes, Kreyòl for "Uncle Knapsack", a reference to the bogeyman of Haitian legend who would catch children and kidnap them in his knapsack.^[1] His Tontons Macoutes would carry out acts of violence such as vandalism and murder to repress opposition.^[2]

^ Ferguson 1988, p. 40.
^ Ferguson 1988, p. 40-41.

delldot ∇. 03:59, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Added. delldot ∇. 18:42, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Bias

Article persists in making outright statements and presenting the tone and wording to make it 'as if common knowledge' that sexual violence in Haiti is almost always or always perpetrated by Males, and that the victims are always Females, regardless of any circumstance.

This gives a grave bias to the article that could disinform future readers about the situation in Haiti, the truthful mechanics of sexual violence in general (not being exclusively by-male-to-female), and discriminates Haitian victims of other sex and circumstance by not treating them as equal victims to sexual violence because they were not in the specific bias that this article decidedly caters its words for as of now.

Please reform this article. I opine that we all here agree that Wikipedia is not a biased site and works to prevent bias from happening. Thank You.

--77.126.24.122 (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Point de Sable

I have removed:

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, now known as the founder of Chicago, was one such free person of color, born in Haiti in 1745 to a wealthy Frenchman and his female slave.^[1]

While it is referenced, his article makes it uncertain that he even came from Haiti. Besides, the claim that his birth was caused by sexual violence is not explicit. Moreover, Point du Sable is anecdotal for an article on Haiti. Mentioning it here hints of US-centrism, even Chicago-centrism.

If an example of a free person of color is considered useful, it should be somebody with a clearer record and explicitly born out of sexual violence. --Error (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ Accilien et al. 2003, p. 122.

[FOOTNOTEFerguson198840-1] Ferguson 1988, p. 40.

[FOOTNOTEFerguson198840-41-2] Ferguson 1988, p. 40-41.

[FOOTNOTEAccilien_et_al.2003122-3] Accilien et al. 2003, p. 122.

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