| 05/23/2012 06:17 AM |
| HAITI: Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths |
As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti
brought exponential increases in the numbers of people
sickened and killed by cholera.
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| 05/20/2012 12:13 PM |
| Post-Quake Haiti Severely Dependent on Private Sector |
More than two years after the January 2010 earthquake in
Haiti, NGOs and private contractors are continuing to provide
80 percent of the country's social services.
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| 05/19/2012 02:13 PM |
| Haiti Ratifies Business-Oriented Prime Minister |
Almost three months after the seat was left vacant when the
former prime minister resigned due to disagreements and
political wrangling with the president, as of Monday, Haiti
finally has a new prime minister.
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| 04/24/2012 12:23 PM |
| Coming Together for Environmental Restoration in Haiti |
In honour of Earth Day, we run an interview with Yves-André
Wainright, who discusses ways that poor governance and the
role of foreign donors have contributed to the country's
environmental catastrophe.
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| 03/18/2012 06:31 AM |
| Shelters Don't Shelter Haiti's Needy |
Almost half of the emergency shelters distributed by the
British organisation Tearfund in the mountains above Léogâne
remain uninhabited six months after they were built.
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| 03/12/2012 07:48 PM |
| Q&A: Group Founded by Rape Survivors Lifts Up Haitian Women |
In Haitian refugee camps, women are still crammed under plastic or cloth tarps
that provide no security and quickly become overheated by the sun. Sexual
abuse, harassment, assault and rape run rampant, even as political responses to
these dangers have stalled. But KOFAVIV, a women's organisation founded by
and for rape survivors, offers a glimmer of hope.
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| 03/10/2012 07:56 AM |
| Temporary Toilets Threaten Permanent Damage in Haiti – Part 2 |
Complete with gallery and garden, the 534 wood and
plasterboard houses are arranged in neat rows on a gravel plot
of former sugarcane land northwest of the capital.
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| 03/10/2012 07:43 AM |
| Money for Cleaning Toilets in Haiti Down the Drain? – Part 1 |
The drawdown of hundreds of non-governmental organisations
which have been in Haiti since the disastrous 2010 earthquake
was inevitable. But with their departure, so too goes their
purse and the millions earmarked for cleaning latrines.
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| 03/10/2012 03:06 AM |
| Simple Steps to Improving Aid Effectiveness |
As donors struggle to meet their aid commitments, and the number of people
around the world in need of direct humanitarian and development assistance
skyrockets, many experts and activists are asking the tough question: are donors
being effective?
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| 03/04/2012 05:06 AM |
| Correcting the Record of Haiti's Earthquake |
The world reacted swiftly to Haiti's catastrophic 7.0 earthquake in 2010. The
United States shipped
in 20,000 troops, some to perform lifesaving medical procedures, others to
protect aid workers from
earthquake victims deemed dangerous. Movie stars, criminals and other
prospective parents rushed
to adopt motherless Haitian babies.
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| 02/27/2012 11:23 AM |
| Haiti's University Languishes in Ruins - Part 2 |
When the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission failed to
approve, or even respond to, a proposal by the University of
the State of Haiti (UEH) for a unified campus to replace the
nine destroyed or badly damaged faculties in the capital, Vice
Rector Fritz Deshommes was not surprised at the silence.
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| 02/27/2012 10:38 AM |
| Haiti's University Languishes in Ruins - Part 1 |
Two years after the earthquake, and despite the proposals
written, the consortiums organised and the foreign delegations
entertained, the University of the State of Haiti (Université
d'Etat d'Haïti or UEH) still has not seen any
"reconstruction", and the proposal for a university campus
that would unite all 11 faculties remains a 25-year-old dream.
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| 02/25/2012 04:18 AM |
| Brazil's Construction Boom Eases Integration of Haitians |
Pierre was in the next-door country of Dominican Republic when the January 2010 earthquake destroyed half of Port-au-Prince and killed at least 200,000 of his fellow Haitians, including his wife and his mother.
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| 01/31/2012 12:18 PM |
| Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal |
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 |
| U.N. "Outraged" at Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Haiti |
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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