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Dominican Republic Ruling – Amnesty International Demands Urgent Action
Amnesty International Requests Urgent Action on DR Ruling Amnesty International has called for urgent action regarding a ruling by the…
November 19, 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 to send representatives to Dominican Republic
Organisation of American States to send representatives to the Dominican Republic Following a debate by the Permanent Council of the…
November 1, 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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38th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies – Call for Papers
38th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies - Call for Papers University of Glasgow, 2-4 July 2014 The Society…
October 30, 2013
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Toward New Narratives for Haiti in 2013 and Beyond
Representations, Revisions, Responsibilities: Toward New Narratives for Haiti in 2013 and Beyond Haiti is often cast by outsiders as a…
October 30, 2013
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Legal Limbo for Dominicans of Haitian Descent
The New York Times, October 24, 2013 By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — For generations, people of Haitian…
October 24, 2013
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Ghetto Biennale: UCL Seminar
UCL Seminar: 'Haiti's Ghetto Biennale' In December 2009, Atiz Rezistans, the Sculptors of Grand Rue, hosted their first Ghetto Biennale.…
October 23, 2013
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The Dominican Ruling which could Leave Thousands Stateless
BBC Online, October 10, 2013 By LORENA ARROYO, BBC NEWS LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN "My father came here to work,…
October 22, 2013
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The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference 2013
The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference, Liverpool To mark seventy-five years of C.L.R. James’s pioneering anticolonial classic The Black…
October 22, 2013
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Hundreds Face Violent Forced Eviction: Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Hundreds Face Violent Forced Eviction (Copy of statement issued by Amnesty International, 18 October 2013) Hundreds of people…
October 22, 2013
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Black History Month Activities, 2013
Black History Month 2013 The Haiti Support Group will be participating at a number of events as part of…
October 11, 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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Why Richard Morse left Haiti’s government
April 15, 2013 Catherine Porter, Toronto Star original article here Throughout his campaign and into the second year of his…
April 18, 2013
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2nd Haiti minister resigns in as many days
April 11, 2013, The Tampa Tribune original article here PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two radio stations in Haiti are reporting…
April 18, 2013
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Haiti’s Finance Minister Resigns
April 10, 2013 Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald original article here Haiti's minister of finance and economy has resigned, effective immediately.…
April 18, 2013
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Quinn and Sutton Launch Politics and Power in Haiti
edited by Kate Quinn and Paul Sutton Date: 25th April 2013, Time: 5.30, Venue: Room 103, Institute of the Americas,…
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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Attaining Proper Food Security
Attaining Proper Food Security From Haiti Support Group’s Haiti Briefing no 72 (October 2012) Attaining Proper Food Security Means Demanding Effective Food…
March 25, 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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Haitian legal system drags its heels in Duvalier case
March 21,2013 Catherine Porter, Toronto Star original article here Alleged torture victim keeps waiting for chance to testify against Jean-Claude…
March 22, 2013
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Haiti’s Prominent Political Party to Run
March 21, 2013 Trenton Daniel, Montreal Gazette original article here PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's most prominent political party said…
March 21, 2013
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Martelly and Washington Push For Another “Electoral Hold-Up”
March 20, 2013 Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté original article here March 20, 2013 marks the second anniversary of a patently…
March 21, 2013
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Haitian farmers call for ‘food sovereignty’
March 21, 2013 Global Post original article here Hundreds of small farmers have converged on the central Haitian city of…
March 21, 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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Haitian Sweatshops: Made in the U.S.A.
March 21, 2013 Fran Quigley, In These Times original article here When the shift changes in the late afternoon, thousands…
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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Haiti Moves to Tighten Laws on Sexual Violence
March 7, 2013 Ansel Herz, Inter Press Service original article here Haiti is poised to enact major reforms to…
March 21, 2013
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Duvalier on Trial: Justice or Joke?
March 15, 2013 Beverly Bell, Other Worlds original article here March 15, 2013 Twenty-seven years later, the unimaginable has become…
March 19, 2013
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Deplorable conditions for cholera patients
March 12, 2013 Médecins Sans Frontières press release original release here A lack of funds and supplies has crippled cholera…
March 19, 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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Petrocaribe’s Oil to the Poor: Chávez Legacy in Haiti and Latin America
March 6, 2013 Kim Ives & Dan Coughlin, Haiti Liberté original article here Tens of thousands of Haitians spontaneously poured…
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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U.S. Holds Key to Duvalier Prosecution
March 1, 2013 Fran Quigley, Counterpunch original article here I am in the courtroom for a hearing on the cases…
March 6, 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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Duvalier Must Face Justice
March 4, 2013 Bill O'Neill, Miami Herald original article here After 27 years and 21 days, former dictator and President-for-Life…
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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Haiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Hospitalised
March 5, 2012 News 24 original article here Port-au-prince - An attorney for Jean-Claude Duvalier said on Monday that his…
March 6, 2013
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Forced Evictions in Haiti Escalating Again
March 4, 2013 Quixote Center original article here Over the last two months violent forced evictions targeting people living in…
March 6, 2013
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Beaten Haitian Worker Continues Fight for $7-Per-Day Wage
March 5, 2013 Dan Schneider, In These Times original article hereWhen Haiti's minimum wage rose to 300 Gourds ($7 US)…
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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Haitian Reporters Accuse President’s Security of Attack
February 20, 2013 Sam Naik, Journalism in the Americas original article here Two Haitian journalists said they were repeatedly beaten…
March 6, 2013
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