Full Coverage: Haiti

19.11.2008 In a reversal of the traditional role of foreign experts, a Haitian team will be in Canada next week for discussions aimed at helping Vancouver and Port-au-Prince tackle HIV-AIDS more effectively.

17.11.2008 As Bond fiddles with his mobile internet gadget in the latest movie, which OneWorld Guide would be given that magical half second of screen-time? The Gender Guide is an unlikely candidate, given the denial of violence against women in western culture.

26.10.2008 Survivors of this season's four devastating hurricanes in Haiti will receive a boost from the United Nations fund set up to help in the wake of major disasters, the UN relief chief announced after visiting the struggling Caribbean country.

08.09.2008 Flooding caused by rains that lashed Haiti after a recent series of back-to-back hurricanes has affected an estimated 650,000 people, of whom 300,000 are children, says the UN children's fund.

01.05.2008 The Haitian government and the international community contributed significantly to the dire situation that sparked the early April food riots in the Caribbean nation, writes anthropologist Mark Schuller.

03.04.2008 The 35th anniversary celebration of a Haiti's largest and oldest peasant movement demonstrates the organization's ability to empower rural people and the vitality of grassroots democracy in this Caribbean nation, writes Nikhil Aziz.

18.02.2008 Addressing infants' and maternal nutrition needs during a child's first two years of life is much more effective, in terms of promoting children's physical and cognitive development, than treating children who are already moderately malnourished, says a study from an international food research institute.

29.11.2007 Dr. Jean "Bill" Pape, founder of the first Haitian clinic to investigate the Caribbean AIDS epidemic, is seeing infection rates drop thanks to pro-condom campaigns, increased HIV-screening, and safer blood banks.
From: Heroes of HIV

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

02.11.2007 As natural disasters ravish the Caribbean and Central Africa, the United Nations has announced the launch of a new office that will use space technology to reduce and prevent disasters around the world.

24.10.2007 Haitian and global activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has not been seen since August. Ben Terral of Haiti Action contrasts the Haiti of the US and its proxy army with the real Haiti of Lovinsky, the Lavalas movement and the masses of Haitian people.
From: Pambazuka News

12.10.2007 Roughly 10 percent of Haitian children live a life of forced slave labor because their families cannot afford to raise them. Listen as they explain in their own words the hardships they endure as they are sent away from their homes to serve under families in the city.

24.08.2007 On August 23, 1791 the slaves of Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) began their historic revolt, sparking the gradual process that resulted in the international elimination of slavery and the slave trade.

22.03.2007 Brazil and Canada have helped launch a new vaccine program in Haiti, hoping to drastically improve the country's child survival rate. Haiti's vaccination coverage has been rising since 2002, but it still ranks behind most of its neighbors and much of sub-Saharan Africa.

26.02.2007 As the UK commemorates the end of the slave trade, a new Haitian sculpture will be unveiled today in Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum. It will tour the country, taking in London and Bristol, before returning to Liverpool where it will remain on permanent display in the new International Slavery Museum, which opens on 23 August.

14.02.2007 The shift in tactics by the United Nations stabilization mission and the Haitian government towards direct confrontation with armed gangs will only temporarily reduce insecurity, especially while dubious ties with gang leaders and supporters remain, ActionAid said today.

10.01.2007 Tuberculosis, malnutrition, and the devastation of wars in the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Congo are profoundly affecting millions of people yet remain almost invisible in the U.S. media, says Médecins Sans Frontières.

01.12.2006 Rape and other transgressions, unfortunately, appear to be looked upon as just another weapon in the arsenal of some of HaitiÂ’s politicians by which they can crush opposition to them and whatever designs they may have on power.

30.11.2006 De toutes les villes d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince est le plus affecté par l’insalubrité puisque les immondices arrivent parfois à obstruer ses grandes artères, à embouteiller ses principales rues et à créer un environnement excessivement pollué et malsain pour ses 2 millions d’habitants.

28.11.2006 Des élèves du Lycée Toussaint Louverture ont investi les rues de Port-au-Prince, ce 22 novembre 2006, pour exiger « la désoccupation du pays » par les militaires étrangers déployés dans le cadre de la Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (MINUSTAH).