Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange for its independence, a UN forum has ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity in ...

The victorious Haitians proclaimed their independence in 1804 ... as “normalised interference” in Haiti’s affairs that continues to this day. “Two hundred years on, we're still in ...

On this April 20, the Organization of American States (OAS) joins the Haitian people in commemorating National Haitian ...

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent closed with calls for reparations for Haiti on the ...

On Thursday, April 17, 2025, as part of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence debt, the Élysée Palace published a ...

It comes on the 200th anniversary of the April 17, 1825 document issued by King Charles X of France, which recognized Haiti’s independence after a slave revolt — but also imposed a 150 million ...

Macron’s announcement came as demand has grown for greater recognition of what France’s “independence debt” did to Haiti’s development ... a July 14 Bastille Day celebration at the ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence ...