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01/31/2012 12:18 PM
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Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal
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International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly
denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that
former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier should not
face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during
his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986.
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01/23/2012 11:56 AM
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U.N. "Outraged" at Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Haiti
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The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover
from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to
cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers -
for the third time in five years.
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01/18/2012 03:47 AM
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From Peacekeeping to Partisan Policing?
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The image of United Nations peacekeeping operations has become
seriously tarnished in recent years, say some independent
experts who monitor the U.N. missions around the world.
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01/12/2012 10:40 AM
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Report Exposes "Survival Sex Trade" in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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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 to feed her three-year-old daughter.
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01/12/2012 09:40 AM
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Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity
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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 arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life.
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01/12/2012 06:46 AM
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HAITI: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
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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 Dieulia St. Juste.
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12/23/2011 11:57 AM
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HAITI: Open for Business – Part 2
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Ever since being elected earlier this year, Haitian President
Michel Martelly and his team have been betting Haiti's
reconstruction on foreign investors.
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12/23/2011 09:18 AM
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HAITI: Open For Business – Part 1
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"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 being built in northern Haiti.
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11/30/2011 03:20 AM
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HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water – Part 2
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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 yet to see running water in their vicinity.
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11/30/2011 03:05 AM
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/CORRECTED REPEAT*/HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water – Part 1
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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 bottles and buckets.
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11/13/2011 11:39 AM
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Haitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N.
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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 killed more than 6,600 Haitians
and sickened more than 476,000 since October 2010.
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10/28/2011 04:17 AM
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/CORRECTED REPEAT*/HAITI: Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile Factory Owners
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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 union within just two weeks of its formation.
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09/16/2011 03:54 AM
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Brazil Plans to Wind Down Peacekeeping Force in Haiti
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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 leading such a force has brought them more headaches than prestige.
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09/10/2011 06:51 AM
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HAITI: U.N. Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women
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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.
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09/05/2011 06:15 AM
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HAITI: Patchy Healthcare Adds to Miseries of Women and Girls
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"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 country's devastating earthquake, women and girls
are still facing gaps in access to available healthcare
services necessary to stop preventable maternal and infant
deaths.
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