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‘I am alarmed,’ U.N. Secretary General says about 2018 Haiti massacre

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, July 17, 2019 Haiti-based human rights organizations have put the death toll in La Saline as high as 71. U.N. investigators , who acknowledged that their probe was not exhaustive, say at least 26 people, including a 10-month-old and 72-year-old, were killed. The killings took place over two days and were “a well-planned…
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Can Haitians help make Canada better?

By Jean Saiint-Vil, Jafrikayiti, July 4, 2019 This year, an unprecedented event took place on Canada Day, in Ottawa. A group of Canadians answered a fellow citizen’s challenge to host the first ever “Make Canada Better – Speaker’s Corner”. The challenge went up on Facebook and Twitter, on June 16, 2019. It called for speakers to come to Ottawa on July 1st a…
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Human rights team finds US-backed Haitian government culpable in Lasal…

By Haiti Action Committee, San Francisco Bay Review, July 16, 2019 Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild is releasing a new report, “The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti,” about the November 2018 massacre in the neighborhood of Lasalin in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. The report provides evidence of oth…
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Canadian minister of tourism Mélanie Joly is confronted by members of…

By L'info Haiti, July 16, 2019 Monday, January 15th, activists from Solidarité Québec-Haïti #Petrochallenge 2019 (Quebec-Haiti Solidarity #Petrochallenge 2019) confronted Canada's minister of Tourism and the Francophonie Mélanie Joly. They challenged minister Joly on Canada's continued support of Haiti's president Jovenel Moise.  Two recent reports have fo…
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Haiti Info archives now available(1992-1999)

By Jane Regan, Haiti Info, July 2019 Haiti Info was published in Haiti from Aug. 31, 1992 until Oct. 2, 1999. Working with peasant associations, popular organizations, neighborhood groups, unions, community radio members, members of religious communities, and with human rights, student, women’s and other groups, as well as with organizations in the alterna…
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Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti names Franciscka Lucien…

By Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), July 15, 2019 Today, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) welcomes Franciscka Lucien as its new Executive Director. Franciscka succeeds Brian Concannon who informed the Board in September 2018 of his intention to step down.  “We are thrilled that Franciscka is taking the helm o…
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Report: The Lasalin massacre and the human rights crisis in Haiti

By Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild & Seth Donnelly, Haiti Action Committee, July 8, 2019 The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti Introduction On November 13, 2018, police and other paramilitary personnel entered the neighborhood of Lasalin in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What followed was a massacre of the civilian population. Bu…
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Canada brushed off abuse complaints against Barrick-linked gold miner in Tanzania, emails show

By Alastair Sharp, National Observer, July 10, 2019

Canadian embassy staff in Africa and officials in Ottawa paid little attention to allegations of human rights abuses at a mine in Tanzania as they sought to aid Barrick Gold Corp. in a tussle with the east African country’s government, internal emails show.

Acacia Mining, a U.K.-based subsidiary of Barrick Gold, has been accused by MiningWatch Canada, U.K.-based Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) and others of complicity in the deaths and injuries of scores of people living near the North Mara gold mine in the remote north of the country at the hands of its own private security forces and Tanzanian police.

The company, the largest investor and employer in Tanzania, says it is working to limit…

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