Development Policy & NGOs Archives

The Past and Future of Rights Cinema: It Stays With You
It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti (2017, 50 mins.) Between 2005-2007 UN peacekeeping troops…
March 6, 2018
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Doing “good” in Haiti: our response to the Oxfam scandal
A Statement from Antony Stewart, Chair of the Haiti Support Group This week, as Chair of the Haiti Support Group,…
February 14, 2018
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UPDATE: Donald Trump and Haiti. Help us shut his comments down
UPDATE, 12th January 2018: Today marks eight years after the Léogâne Earthquake and Trump is, once again, spewing garbage about Haiti…
January 12, 2018
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Puerto Rico Needs Help, But Not Like Haiti
FÈ ATENSYON. Haiti 2010 is not the intervention model you want for Puerto Rico. Last month, hurricanes Irma and Maria…
October 1, 2017
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Annual Report: Amnesty International 2016-2017
HAITI 2016/2017 Annual Report: Amnesty International 2016-2017 Elections postponed several times. A hurricane hit Haiti in October causing a major…
February 24, 2017
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Fixing Elections: A Beginner’s Guide
Beginner’s Guide to Fixing Elections. It is not always possible to control the outcome of an election (remember 1990?!). The…
January 7, 2016
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Seitenfus: Haiti’s Doctored Elections from the Inside
Haiti’s Doctored Elections, Seen from the Inside: An Interview with Ricardo Seitenfus By Dan Beeton and Georgianne Nienaber February…
February 25, 2014
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Human Rights Council Report on the Dominican Republic
Human Rights Council Report on the Dominican Republic The Human Rights Council released its draft report on the Universal Periodic…
February 7, 2014
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Can disasters become an opportunity? Building back better in Aceh, Myanmar and Haiti
Can disasters become an opportunity? Building back better in Aceh, Myanmar and Haiti Information courtesy of the Overseas Development Institute…
January 22, 2014
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The Guardian Reports: Where is US Aid Money Going?
The Guardian Reports: Where is US Aid Money Going? Article courtesy of The Guardian Newspaper, 10 January 2014 American companies and…
January 10, 2014
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Four Years On: Post-Earthquake Facts and Figures
Four Years On: Post-Earthquake Facts and Figures All information supplied courtesy of Amnesty International Haiti: Displaced people still leave in…
January 10, 2014
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Infographic. Still in Shock: Haiti after the Earthquake
Infographic. Still in shock: Haiti after the earthquake Why Haiti is still suffering after the 2010 earthquake. On 12 January 2010, Haiti…
January 10, 2014
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Reuters Reports: World Bank Envoy Criticizes Lack of Transparency in Haiti Oil Programme
Reuters Reports: World Bank Envoy Criticizes Lack of Transparency in Haiti Oil Programme Taken from Reuters, December 4 2013 By…
December 5, 2013
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CARICOM and the OECS Condemn DR Nationality Ruling
CARICOM and the OECS Condemn DR Nationality Ruling CARICOM STATEMENT ON DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RULING OF THE…
November 27, 2013
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Aid or Trade? The Nefarious Effects of U.S. Policies
Aid or Trade? The Nefarious Effects of U.S. Policies Centre for Research on Globalization, November 6, 2013 By Haiti Grassroots…
November 9, 2013
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OAS Visit Dominican Republic after Citizenship Ruling
Article by Caribbean 360, November 1, 2013 WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Wednesday October 30, 2013, CMC - The Secretary General…
November 1, 2013
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Live Broadcast on Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Live Broadcast on Statelessness in the Dominican Republic Courtesy of The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights…
October 31, 2013
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Protest against Dominican Republic
Protest against Dominican Republic making People of Haitian Descent Stateless On September 25th, the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Dominican Republic…
October 8, 2013
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Reconstructing Haiti: Our Comments
HSG Comments on "Reconstructing Haiti" HSG Executive Committee members Andy Leak and Mario Gousse took part in an expert…
June 18, 2013
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Tens of thousands of families stuck in Haiti camps – IOM
April 18, 2013 Anastasia Moloney, AlertNet original article here BOGOTA (AlertNet) - More than three years after Haiti's devastating earthquake,…
April 18, 2013
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Haiti Cholera Mutations Could Lead to More Severe Disease
April 16,2013 Infection control Today original article here The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin…
April 18, 2013
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Reflections on the Reconstruction
March 26, 2013 Ayiti Kale Je/Haiti Grassroots watch For full article with illustrations and links, click here Haitian and…
April 3, 2013
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Departing UN official blasts Haiti’s rights record
March 28, 2013 Trenton Daniel, Associated press in the Miami Herald, article here The former United Nations human rights monitor…
March 30, 2013
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Michel Forst tenders resignation
March 24, 2013 Alexander Britell, Caribbean Journal original article here Michel Forst, the United Nations' Independent Expert on the Situation…
March 25, 2013
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Journalists Attacked by World Vision Worker
March 21, 2013 Grassroots Watch/Kale Je original article here Two Haitian journalists were attacked by a man working for the…
March 22, 2013
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Contracting Cholera. What the UN Owes Haiti
March 20, 2013 Isabeau Doucet, The Nation original article here I contracted cholera by the breezy beaches of Port Salut,…
March 21, 2013
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Is USAID Mainly Serving U.S. Interests?
March 19, 2013 Center for Economic and Policy Research original article here An op-ed in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday lays out…
March 21, 2013
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Caracol Industrial Park: Worth the risk?
March 7, 2013 Kale Je/Haiti Grassroots Watch original article here Caracol and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 7 March 2013 – Last October,…
March 7, 2013
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A Tale of Two NGOs: In Haiti, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster?
March 6, 2013 Beverly Bell, The WIP original article here Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become…
March 7, 2013
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Haiti Support Group Letter to the Guardian on UN & Cholera
Haiti Support Group Letter to the Guardian re. UN & Cholera The following letter was written by Phillip Wearne of…
March 6, 2013
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UN Behaviour Far Cry from Conscience of the World
March 3, 2013 Ian Birrell, The Guardian original article here The organisation ducked responsibility for the cholera outbreak in denial…
March 6, 2013
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UN fails to get its hands clean in Haiti
March 3, 2013 Paul McGeough The Age original article here And they wonder why people throw bombs. The United Nations…
March 6, 2013
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Cholera in Haiti: Murder by Foreigners with Internal Support
February 27, 2013 Etant Dupain, Let Haiti Live original article here Finally, through its response to the legal complaint brought…
March 6, 2013
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Audit Finds US Loan Program in Haiti Filled with Flaws
March 4, 2013 Trenton Daniel (AP) in the Windsor Star original article here PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - An audit of a…
March 6, 2013
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Calls for End to Impunity in Haiti on Day UN Asserts Immunity
21 February 2013 source: UN A senior United Nations official today urged Haiti to ensure there is no impunity for human…
March 6, 2013
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Government “free school” Program – A Victory?
February 13, 2013 Haiti Kale Je/Grassroots Watchoriginal article here The Program for Universal Free and Obligatory Education (Programme de…
February 15, 2013
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The Promise, Politics and Profit of Primary Education for All
From Haiti Briefing 73 (February 2013) The full Briefing (and previous editions) can be downloaded free here (you may need…
February 6, 2013
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Families left homeless in New Wave of Evictions
February 1, 2013 Amnesty International press release The Haitian authorities must urgently move to prevent illegal and violent evictions of…
February 5, 2013
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Phoenix Project… born again?
January 21, 2013 Kale Je/Grassroots watch original article here Port-au-Prince, HAITI, 22 January 2013 – For more than two years,…
February 4, 2013
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Challenging EU on Rule of Law & Human Rights in Haiti
Haiti Support Group Challenges EU on Rule of Law and Human Rights in Haiti Update: By 11 January 2013, two…
January 26, 2013
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Outsourcing sovereignty – Interview with Justin Podur on Haiti’s New Dictatorship
January 1, 2013 Isabeau Doucet, briarpatch magazine original article here An interview with Justin Podur on Haiti's new dictatorship During…
January 21, 2013
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Subsidizing Starvation
January 11, 2013 Maura R O'Connor, Foreign Policy How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the…
January 15, 2013
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Has the Dust Even Settled? Haiti’s Earthquake: Three Years Later
January 12, 2013 Mark Snyder Three years after the devastating earthquake and the series of aftershocks that followed, visitors to…
January 14, 2013
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Learning from past mistakes in Haiti
January 11, 2013 Nelson rosales, The Record.com original article here Haiti is back in the news. The third anniversary of…
January 11, 2013
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‘Building Back Better’ Requires Justice and Haitian Participation
January 11, 2013 South Florida Caribbean News original article here Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Human Rights lawyers in Haiti and the…
January 11, 2013
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Hundreds of Thousands Remain Homeless in Haiti Three Years After Earthquake
January 7, 2003 Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, TruthOut original article here Despite billions in aid which were supposed to…
January 10, 2013
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Campaign Demands End to Forced Camp Evictions
9 January 2013 STOP FORCED EVICTIONS IN HAITI 10-12 JANUARY Nearly three years after the devastating earthquake that left more…
January 10, 2013
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Tumultuous Year Ahead in Haiti
January 9,2013, Kim Ives, Haïti liberté original article here Martelly Regime Presents Aristide a Warrant, Duvalier a Diplomatic Passport…
January 9, 2013
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Canada’s Decision to Review Haiti Aid Stirs Controversy
January 8, 2013, CBC News original piece hereHaiti funding criticized Government denies freezing Haiti aidCanadian Minister of International Co-operation Julian…
January 9, 2013
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Report Urges US Lawmakers to Promote Agricultural Imports from Haiti
January 7, 2013, Caribbean Journal original article here The United States Congress should help foster agricultural imports from Haiti, according to…
January 8, 2013
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