You might want to keep this article at your fingertips so that when a colleague or friend asks why Haiti is still in a mess, you can provide all the details. Authors Deepa Pachang, Beverly Bell, and Tory Field are to be congratulated on this article. The “Super Bowl of Disasters:” Profiting from Crisis in […]
December 13, 2011
Forget Oprah, Kim Kardashian, Donna Karan and their ridiculous fashion shows as they trot through Haiti. Check out Minister Louis Farrakhan’s donation of a spectacular $150,000 water purification which churns out 30,000 gallons a day of clean water. It’s solar-powered and was installed in partnership with Ezili Danto and the Haitian Lawyers’ Leadership Network (HLLN). […]
October 17, 2011
OAS Overturned Haitian Presidential Election in a “Political Intervention,” New CEPR Paper Suggests Statistical Analysis Shows that OAS Action Was Inconsistent with Election Data For Immediate Release: October 17, 2011 Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460 Washington, D.C.– An Organization of American States (OAS) Mission overturned the results of the first round of Haiti’s presidential elections last […]
September 19, 2011
Sebastian Walker, Al Jazeera correspondent, starting covering Haiti a few days after the earthquake and just recently he filed his last report — the video which appears below. Walker was probably the best correspondent reporting from Haiti. He was consistently ahead of other reporters in the getting the story. Whether the topic was useless NGOs, […]
September 16, 2011
Protesters in Haiti demand UN troop withdrawal following alleged abuse of young man – The Washington Post By Associated Press, Published: September 14 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Protesters calling for the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers from Haiti clashed with police Wednesday outside the earthquake-damaged Haitian National Palace.The protesters hurled rocks at Haitian police in riot gear as […]
September 11, 2011
53 Garry Conille: The Neo-Liberal Pedigree of Haiti’s Latest Prime Minister Nominee At Washington’s behest, a liberal technocrat appears poised to take over Haiti’s most powerful executive post by Kim Ives It is a common misconception, both in Haiti and abroad, that the country’s president holds executive power. In fact, his main power is to […]
September 11, 2011
Stay tuned, folks! ‘Violent Altercation’ between Prime Minister-designate Garry Conille and Presidential Adviser Dr. Garry Conille and Michel Martelly Prev 1 of 2 Next PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Witnesses present at the Karibe Hotel on Saturday reported a violent altercation between the Prime Minister-designate, Dr. Garry Conille and advisers to the President Michel Martelly. Radio […]
September 7, 2011
UN Troops In Haiti Accused of Sexual Assault Video Of Incident May Make Charges Stick This Time By Mark Weisbrot This article was published in The Guardian (UK) on September 3, 2011. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. The video is profoundly disturbing. It shows four men, identified […]
September 4, 2011
Out of Options in Haiti? (IJDH) 1 September 2011 Comments: 0 Greger Calhan, Former BAI Legal Intern Amid great fanfare, and surrounded by an entourage equal to his status as newly elected President of the Republic, Michel Martelly visited the Canaraan displacement camp out on the barren outskirts of northern Port-au-Prince early this summer. He […]
August 19, 2011
100 days into Michel Martelly’s presidency: Survey reveals government’s closure of camps conflicts with durable housing solutions proposed in housing plan (IJDH-BAI) 18 August 2011 Comments: 0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2011 Mario Joseph, Av., Managing Attorney, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), Mario@ijdh.org, 011–509-3701–9879 (Haiti) Nicole Phillips, Esq., staff attorney, Institute for Justice & […]
February 19, 2012
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