MEDIA: Uniting in the Face Of "Unnatural" Disasters
"In my opinion, there is no such thing as a natural disaster," says Sylvia Richardson, a volunteer broadcaster, mother of two, assistant librarian, and the new vice president of the North American...
View ArticleBRAZIL: Haiti Is Here
In the powerful verses of the song "Haiti", Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil described similarities between two countries at different ends of the development spectrum in Latin...
View ArticleHAITI: Behind the Closed Doors of Port-au-Prince "Reconstruction"
Almost 17 months after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and three other cities, reconstruction of the capital's downtown appears stalled, and over 800,000 people still live...
View ArticleColombia Asks Caribbean to Look South
The 15-member Caribbean Community's annual summit, which concluded here Monday, reflected here broader trends of south- south cooperation and integration, both within and beyond the region itself.
View ArticleHaiti's Reconstruction Still an Uphill Battle
As Haiti struggles to recover from the deadly January 2010 earthquake that killed over 200,000 people and forced nearly 1.5 million into camps, international funding is failing to keep pace with the...
View ArticleHaitians Go to Africa, Bringing Solar Energy
Jean Ronel Noël, a young Haitian engineer, stood in a centuries-old fort on a small island just off Dakar and looked out at the Atlantic through a portal that once led enslaved Africans to the ships...
View ArticleHAITI: Martelly Still Unable to Appoint New PM
Almost three months since he was sworn in as the country's president, Michel J. Martelly has already attempted to appoint two prime ministers to guide his government. Bernard Gousse, a minister of...
View ArticleHaiti's Earthquake Victims: 'Abandoned Like Stray Dogs'
Eighty thousand tiny houses dot the countryside near this coastal city, located just west of the epicentre of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that killed some 200,000 and displaced over one million.
View ArticleHAITI: Patchy Healthcare Adds to Miseries of Women and Girls
"I just gave birth on the ground...I had no drugs for pain during delivery," one Haitian mother tells Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Tuesday that says a year and a half after the...
View ArticleHAITI: U.N. Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women
Seventeen-year-old Rose Mina Joseph says she is nine months pregnant. Her belly is swollen and she moves slowly, placing each step, as she walks around her family's dusty yard.
View ArticleBrazil Plans to Wind Down Peacekeeping Force in Haiti
At a time when the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has once again been drawing attention for alleged abuses, Brazilians have begun to ask themselves whether their first experience in...
View Article/CORRECTED REPEAT*/HAITI: Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile Factory...
Workers in Haiti's apparel manufacturing sector charge that factory owners are repressing attempts to organise workers in the capital, after the dismissals of six of seven leading members of a new...
View ArticleHaitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N.
More than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims are seeking compensation, action and an apology from the U.N. and the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for the ongoing epidemic that has...
View ArticleHAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water – Part 1
2.5 million U.S. dollars to supply water to several marginal neighbourhoods in the capital. Approved in 2006. Five years later the water has yet to run. Children are still in the streets bearing...
View ArticleHAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water – Part 2
Despite, or perhaps because of, a host of international actors, 2.5 million U.S. dollars in funding and five years of empty promises, residents of some of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighbourhoods have...
View ArticleHAITI: Open For Business – Part 1
"Haiti is open for business." That's what President Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly said at a recent ceremony as he and former U.S. president Bill Clinton laid a cornerstone for a giant industrial zone...
View ArticleHAITI: Open for Business – Part 2
Ever since being elected earlier this year, Haitian President Michel Martelly and his team have been betting Haiti's reconstruction on foreign investors.
View ArticleHAITI: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for...
View ArticleHaitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity
Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are...
View ArticleReport Exposes "Survival Sex Trade" in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Eighteen-year-old "Kettlyne", a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp – one of the many remaining tent-cities that houses refugees from the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake – is unable...
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