Source: Amnesty International –
Interview with Tina Nadine Anilus, founder of REFKAD, by Paloma Meurinne, a volunteer with the Caribbean team at Amnesty International’s Regional Office for the Americas
For more than fifteen years, Tina Nadine Anilus has been building what the Haitian state has been unable—or unwilling—to guarantee: a safe, dignified and accessible space for women and girls.
Every 25 July, the International Day of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women reminds us that Black women do more than survive the crises surrounding them. They are also the ones sustaining life in the midst of them.
In Haiti, Tina Nadine Anilus has spent more than fifteen years doing exactly that. As the founder of REFKAD (Rezo Fanm Kapab d’Ayiti), she has created spaces offering protection, listening and support to women and girls in one of the most complex humanitarian contexts in the Americas.
In this conversation, she reflects on resistance, the leadership of Haitian women and what the world still fails to understand about Haiti.