{"id":6493,"date":"2025-03-17T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/?page_id=6493"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:07:51","slug":"truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/events\/samuel-dash-conference-on-human-rights\/truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, Solidarity, and Repair: Haiti &amp; the Global Movement for Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pou sit ent\u00e8n\u00e8t krey\u00f2l ayisyen an, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/events\/samuel-dash-conference-on-human-rights\/truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2\/truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2\/\">klike la<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1804, enslaved Haitians evicted their French colonial masters and founded a free nation. But two decades later the French returned, threatening to invade unless Haiti agreed to pay \u201creparations\u201d for French financial losses, including the value of the lives of the formerly enslaved. Faced with French warships off its coast, Haiti was forced to agree. And for generations it has paid this so-called \u201cIndependence Debt\u201d to the descendants of its former enslavers, a ransom for freedom that amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>2025 marks the 200 year anniversary of this injustice. The catastrophic impacts of the &#8220;Independence Debt&#8221; on Haiti\u2019s development and additional vestiges of colonialism on the Haitian economy and society continue to reverberate today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55166061 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55166061 BCX4\">The 2025 Dash Conference centered Haiti as both a symbol and site of global injustice and revolutionary possibility. Drawing from the country&#8217;s historic struggle for Black sovereignty and its ongoing fight for reparations, panelists explored how Haiti\u2019s Independence Debt continues to shape the political, economic, and social conditions of the nation. Across panels, experts called for bold legal strategies, community-led advocacy, and international accountability to correct over two centuries of systemic harm.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW55166061 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span> This year&#8217;s conference was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijdh.org\">Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To listen to the discussions in Haitian Creole, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/events\/samuel-dash-conference-on-human-rights\/truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2\/truth-solidarity-and-repair-haiti-the-global-movement-for-reparations-2\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pou sit ent\u00e8n\u00e8t krey\u00f2l ayisyen an, klike la. In 1804, enslaved Haitians evicted their French colonial masters and founded a free nation. 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