Monthly archive
By Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press, December 20, 2012
OTTAWA - The Harper government has quietly considered a proposal to contribute…
By Karl Johnson, Architects for Humanity, Aug 22, 2012
Call them a "Haitian artist collective." Twenty creatives have been invited…
Vietnam sells 300,000 tonnes of rice to Haiti
By Reuters, December 26, 2012
Vietnam has secured a contract to export 300,000 tonnes…
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the United Nations has published a 57-page outlook for Haiti in 2013.…
A humanitarian crisis in need of a development solution
By Internal Displacement Monitoring Review, latest version published Dec. 20,…
By Deborah Sontag, New York Times, December 23, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A few days after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, Reginald…
By John M. Kirk
First English version is published in Counterpunch, weekend edition of Dec. 14-16, 2012. This CHIP version is slightly…
By John M. Kirk, published in Counterpunch, weekend edition of Dec. 14-16, 2012 (you can read this from the pdf attachment)
“What is…
By Haiti Grassroots Watch, published on Dec 20, 2012
A $61 million, eight-year World Bank community development project implemented…
Introduction, December 23, 2012
Canada has been one of the biggest donor nations in the international recovery effort following the…
By Yves Engler, Embassy Magazine, Dec. 18, 2012
The Conservatives and their supporters have taken an increasingly aggressive tone…
Al Jazeera’s Inside Story program discussed the importance of the fight for justice for cholera victims in Haiti on its broadcast of Dec…
Ban Ki-moon still isn't taking responsibility for Haiti's cholera outbreak.
By Jonathan Katz and Tom Murphy, Foreign Policy, December…
By Roger Annis, published on Counterpunch and Haiti Liberte (print weekly), December 19, 2012
In a short ceremony in New York City on…
Presentation by Nicole Phillips of the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, of the College of Arts and Sciences, University…
By David Putt
An exhibition on the Haitian vodou religion opened in November at the National Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. There are…
By Christian Wisskirchen, Haiti Support Group, Dec. 2, 2012
To the New York premier of a feature film of the life and times of Haitian…
A film documentary in progress, by Elaine Briere
Why doesn’t Haiti work? Why do we keep hearing about this small nation and its…
December 12, 2012, Port-au-Prince, Boston — The Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice & Democracy in…
Dec. 12, 2012--This evening, CBC Radio One's As It Happens broadcast a 20-minute interview about the cholera situation in Haiti with…
By Mark Weisbrot, published on Al Jazeera, Dec. 12, 2012
Haiti is vulnerable to water-borne diseases like cholera because of its lack…
December 12, 2012
Yesterday at the United Nations in New York City was the launch of "The Secretary-General’s Initiative for the…
Haiti-Dominican Republic cholera eradication plan “welcome,” but unclear where funding will come from says CEPR co-director
Plan by UN…
Haiti Solidarity BC is pleased to announce a three-city screening tour in the Pacific Northwest of Michel Mitchell's 2012 film, Haiti:…
By Robert Naiman, Huffington Post, Dec. 10, 2012
If more Americans could get unplugged from the myths which have been used historically…
Two statements enclosed, by Under Tents and OXFAM:
Stop forced evictions from earthquake survivor camps in Haiti!
** Statement by the…
Haitians left hungry in wake of severe storms
Report says Haiti is expected to experience severe food shortages in six months; rural…
December 6, 2012
Dear reader,
For over two years, the people of Haiti have been fighting a deadly cholera epidemic that has…
By Kathie Klarreich, Miami Herald, Dec 4, 2012
Every year around this time our mailboxes and in-boxes are stuffed with pitches from…
By Isabelle L Papillon, Haiti Liberté, Dec 5, 2012 www.haitiliberte.com
Violent protests shook the southwestern city of Jérémie for…