User:GRuban/Suzy Castor



Suzy Castor (sometimes Suzie Castor) is a Haitian historian and human rights activist. She is a founder and co-director of the non-governmental organization CRESFED (Centre de Recherche et de Formation Économique et Sociale pour le Développement, in English, the Research and Training Center for Economic and Social Development).

In 2005, she was awarded the Juan María Bandrés Award of the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (CEAR).

Family
Castor is the widow of Haitian political leader Gérard Pierre-Charles. They had three sons and one daughter before his death in 2004. Castor's sister Paula Castor Gourgue is married to Gérard Gourgue, who was named provisional president of Haiti in a dispute of the 2000 elections. Castor's sister, Myrtho Pompée, was assassinated in July 2012.