Nèg Mawon Podcast

Episode 11/11, the series finale of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. The report judges the international response: a Gang Suppression Force at a fraction of its size, abuses by foreign troops that went unpunished, U.S. weapons still flowing in, sanctions left unenforced, and humanitarian aid less than half funded. We close by looking back across the whole report and the Haitian voices it carries.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-06/transcript

Episode 2/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. We go inside Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Revolution, the richest colony in the world, built on sugar, coffee and the slave trade. We look at the castes that divided it, the terror that held it together, and the case of Nicolas Le Jeune. And we follow the lives that half a million captive people made inside the machine: Kreyòl, markets, dance and Vodou.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-02/transcript

Episode 10/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Nearly 200,000 Haitians were sent back between January and August 2026, most from the Dominican Republic, and the United States ended TPS for more than 350,000 Haitians on 6 August. We follow the report on what happens to returnees, from abuse during removal to a reception center described as a container with one toilet for 60 people.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-04/transcript

Episode 9/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Only about one in ten health facilities with beds is fully working, both public psychiatric hospitals have been dysfunctional since 2024, and cholera, brought by UN peacekeepers in 2010, is still here. Meanwhile 1,700 schools are closed and 500 destroyed, and Haiti's children have not had a single uninterrupted school year in eight years.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-03/transcript

Episode 8/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Eight straight years of economic decline, inflation at 17%, remittances threatened by the end of TPS, and armed groups taxing every road. About 4.6 million people lack safe water and 5.8 million face acute hunger. The report traces these crises to foreign extraction and long under-investment, and makes the case for reparations.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-01/transcript

Episode 7/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. The report calls Haiti one of the most dangerous countries in the world for children, who are recruited by armed groups and killed by drones and "defense" groups. We also follow what the crisis means for older people, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+ people and the peyizan, Haiti's rural farmers.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-31/transcript

Episode 1/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. For two centuries the Revolution was told through its great men, while the enslaved men and women who made it left almost no writing of their own. We trace how the story has been written, from the first foreign accounts to Madiou, Ardouin, Sannon and C. L. R. James, and how the people can still be found in court interrogations, prison records, captured letters and the oral tradition. We also explain why this series spends so much of its time in the South.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-29/transcript

Episode 6/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Content note: this episode discusses sexual violence. The report counts more than 7,000 cases of gender-based violence in eight months, documents armed groups using rape as a weapon, and follows displaced women and girls in the camps. We bring forward the Haitian women's organizations who document these harms and the barriers survivors face in seeking justice.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-30/transcript

In 1816 Simón Bolívar arrived in Haiti broke and defeated. Alexandre Pétion gave him money, arms, a printing press and Haitian volunteers, and asked for one thing in return: the abolition of slavery in every territory Bolívar liberated. This Deep Dive follows Pétion from the child his father refused to name, to silversmith, artillery officer and president of the southern republic. We look at the land reform that put soil in farmers' hands, and the paradox of a democrat who made himself president for life.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-17/transcript

Episode 5/11 of our walk through "Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, March through September 2026", by IJDH and BAI. Only 2 of the 15 peace courts in Port-au-Prince work, the Court of First Instance held no jury trials for eight years, and the cases of Jovenel Moïse, Monferrier Dorval, Antoinette Duclair and Diego Charles have not moved. In the prisons, 82% of detainees have never been tried, and a center built for 93 children holds more than 760 people.Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-28/transcript