Undermining accountability in the new gold rush: The Miners Next Door (HB77)
Haiti’s government heralds recent discoveries of gold and silver on its side of the island as the bootstrap the country needs to pull itself up from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake. Yet the mining industry’s record of forced displacement –...
Haiti’s government heralds recent discoveries of gold and silver on its side of the island as the bootstrap the country needs to pull itself up from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake. Yet the mining industry’s record of forced displacement –...
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| Theme | Haiti Briefing (English), Mining, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security, Sweatshops & Labour |
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Les Mineurs d'à Côté (HB77)
GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found) Le gouvernement haïtien mise sur les récentes découvertes d’or et d’argent de son côté de la frontière pour sortir le pays de la dévastation causée...
GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found) Le gouvernement haïtien mise sur les récentes découvertes d’or et d’argent de son côté de la frontière pour sortir le pays de la dévastation causée...
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| Theme | Haiti Briefing (en français), Mining, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security |
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L’Enjeu de la Faim en Haïti (HB72)
GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found) Le Désastre d’une Politique Alimentaire qui s’en prend aux Producteurs ...
GDE Error: Error retrieving file - if necessary turn off error checking (404:Not Found) Le Désastre d’une Politique Alimentaire qui s’en prend aux Producteurs ...
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| Theme | Haiti Briefing (en français), Mining, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security |
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Suffering from Sanctions, Again (HB46)
Download PDF The Haitian economy is more than just on its knees - it's now a matter of skin and bones. Sanctions against the military regime in the early 1990s failed to shift the generals but did succeed in reducing economic capacity by a quarter. Since...
Download PDF The Haitian economy is more than just on its knees - it's now a matter of skin and bones. Sanctions against the military regime in the early 1990s failed to shift the generals but did succeed in reducing economic capacity by a quarter. Since...
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Sowing the Seeds for a Grassroots Revival (HB34)
Download PDF These are dark days in Haiti. The promise of economic renewal funded by international development aid has come to nothing. Impunity for human rights violators has given birth to a pervasive sense of insecurity. Common crime is on the increase,...
Download PDF These are dark days in Haiti. The promise of economic renewal funded by international development aid has come to nothing. Impunity for human rights violators has given birth to a pervasive sense of insecurity. Common crime is on the increase,...
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| Theme | Development Policy & NGOs, Haiti Briefing (English), Haitian Civil Society, Haitian History, Mining, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security |
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Land Reform – the Number One Demand (HB19)
Download PDF “Land is truly the Number One biggest demand of Haitian peasants who have fought and died for it, because only having land can assure a peasant’s survival.” ...
Download PDF “Land is truly the Number One biggest demand of Haitian peasants who have fought and died for it, because only having land can assure a peasant’s survival.” ...
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| Theme | Displacement & Land Reform, Haiti Briefing (English), Haitian Civil Society, Mining, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security |
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Pot Threatens to Boil Over (HB15)
Download PDF The patience of many thousands of Haitians finally snapped following the November 7th assassination of the Lavalas MP, Jean Hubert Feuille. In Port-au-Prince and many other cities crowds took to the streets, building roadblocks, searching...
Download PDF The patience of many thousands of Haitians finally snapped following the November 7th assassination of the Lavalas MP, Jean Hubert Feuille. In Port-au-Prince and many other cities crowds took to the streets, building roadblocks, searching...
Clampdown in Jérémie (HB6)
Download PDF Last October, when the Haitian army refused to comply with the UN-brokered accord to restore democracy, the international community needed to act decisively. It has failed to do so and as a result the Haitian crisis has gone from bad to...
Download PDF Last October, when the Haitian army refused to comply with the UN-brokered accord to restore democracy, the international community needed to act decisively. It has failed to do so and as a result the Haitian crisis has gone from bad to...
Mourning Democracy in Haiti (HB5)
Download PDF Before the September 1991 coup d'état, 1,500 sacks of charcoal per month were shipped from Jérémie on the western tip of Haiti's southern peninsular. Now, over two years later, that figure has risen to over 4,500. This simple statistic...
Download PDF Before the September 1991 coup d'état, 1,500 sacks of charcoal per month were shipped from Jérémie on the western tip of Haiti's southern peninsular. Now, over two years later, that figure has risen to over 4,500. This simple statistic...