Adeline Magloire Chancy

Adeline Magloire Chancy (born 4 April 1931) and served as Haiti's minister for the feminine condition and women's rights from 2004 to 2006.

Early life Adeline Magloire was born in 1931 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in the suburb of Pétion-Ville. Her father was an architect and her mother was a teacher.

Chancy studied at L'École Normale Supérieure, a constituent school of the Université d'État d'Haïti, as well as at the university's law school.

Career In the early 1960s, Chancy became an activist for democracy and women's rights under the Duvalier dictatorship, organizing with the Committee of Patriotic Women and the Unified Democratic Front. She was chosen by the Government of Quebec to take part in a commission overseeing the implementation of immigrant integration policies. She also worked with the provincial human rights commission on issues of racism. She received a master's degree in adult education from the University of Montreal in 1981, writing her thesis on illiteracy among Haitian women immigrants.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Chancy was a member of the Congress of Black Women of Canada. She also advocated for the recognition and validation of the Haitian Creole language. In 1983, she launched the first International Creole Day in Montreal, on October 28.

Chancy returned to Haiti after Jean-Claude Duvalier went into exile in 1986. A noteworthy accomplishment during her time as women's minister was the July 6, 2005, declaration that recognized rape as a crime and that abolished discriminatory provisions against women in the Penal Code. In November 2014, Chancy was named a knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Personal life She married Max Chancy, a philosophy professor and political activist, in 1955.

Selected works 1982: Lagramè, Grammaire créole, Maison d’Haïti, Montréal, 1982. 1986: Faut-il nommer le racisme ?, Montréal, CIDIHCA 1994: Batay pou alfabetizasyon se batay pou dwa fondamantal pèp la, Colloque 10ème : Education en Haïti, pp 28–39, New York, 1994. 2002: Jounen Entènasyonal Lang Kreyòl, Inauguration du mois de Créole, Montréal, October 28, 2002.