Outsourcing sovereignty – Interview with Justin Podur on Haiti’s New Dictatorship
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Speaking Out, Paying the Price: Two Years On
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HSG at House of Commons Commemoration of 12 Jan 2010 Earthquake
Speech delivered by Phillip Wearne of the HAITI SUPPORT GROUP as part of a House of Commons public meeting on Haiti to mark the first
OEA et le Gouvernement d’Haïti annoncent US$1,5m au projet de cadastre
Port-au-Prince, le 25 octobre 2010 – (AHP)
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Haiti’s Labour Movement in Renaissance
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Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
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Subsidizing Starvation
Subsidizing Starvation. January 11, 2013 Maura R O’Connor, Foreign Policy How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving
What binds the US, French and Haitian revolutions together?
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Beyani Looking for IDP Solutions
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One Year On: Haitians on Haiti
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Anacaona
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Learning from past mistakes in Haiti
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Public Lecture and Haiti Workshops at University College London
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Amnesty: Violence against women
Gender-based violence, in particular rape of women by gang members, was reported increasingly frequently in impoverished neighbourhoods of the capital. Long overdue reforms to the
Alexis, Jacques Stephen
Writer, poet, activist – A descendent of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Alexis was born on 22 April 1922, in Gonaïves. His father was a journalist, historian and
Haitian Cholera Victims Sue UN for Gross Negligence
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A New World Bank Doctor for Haiti?
HSG reporting from Washington DC, 23-03-2012: If Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Barack Obama’s nominee to be World Bank President gets the job (they invariably do,
Haiti ‘got very lucky’ as Tomas Skirted Island
Photo: Tomas aftermath in Leogane – © Canadian Red Cross
JONATHAN M. KATZ, The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Tropical Storm Tomas pushed northward Saturday after hitting parts of Haiti as a hurricane, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and most everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.
Former Haitian PM Claudette Werleigh speaking at CAFOD
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Journalism in Haiti
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Ronald Agénor – Haitian Tennis Player
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Tumultuous Year Ahead in Haiti
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MEPs: EU spending in Haiti requires serious improvements
HSG reporting from Port-au-Prince, 22-04-2012 We have arrived in Port-au-Prince as part of our 18 month campaign to move the European Union development policy more
M. Pierre-Louis Speaking in London
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Reconstruction’s Massive Slum Will Cost “Hundreds Of Millions”
June 17, 2013 Haiti Grassroots Watch Port-au-Prince, HAITI – Three years after its star-studded launch by President René Préval, actor Sean Penn and various other Haitian
Haiti’s Increasingly Hidden Displacement Disaster
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Total Sum of IADB and World Bank Ambitions for Haiti
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New Radio Play on Haitian Revolution
A new radio play about the Haitian revolution will be broadcast on the UK station Galaxy radio over the next four weeks, beginning 17 September
May 1, Labour Day: “Work Yes! Slavery No!”
HSG from Port-au-Prince, 01-05-2012 A small crowd of civil society activists and workers assembles outside the huge barriere gates of the SONAPI free trade assembly plant zone near the Port-au-Prince
Anger Erupts at UN as Cholera Toll Nears 1,000
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 16, 2010 (IPS) – “People are going to take the body to MINUSTAH to show them what they did,” Jean-Luc Surfin told IPS by phone as riots erupted against Haiti’s U.N. peacekeeping force on Monday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.