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By Sharmana Peries & Kim Ives, REAL News, Feb. 27, 2018
The sexual misconduct scandal involving Oxfam in Haiti further deepens…
By Yves Engler, Huffpost, Feb. 27, 2018
Imagine living in a country where the entire social services sector is privatized, run by “…
By Brian Becker & Kim Ives, Loud & Clear, Feb. 22, 2018
The food charity Oxfam is reeling after reports that some of its senior…
By Milton Allimadi, Haiti Liberté, Feb. 19, 2018
First came reports that billions of dollars intended for victims of the January 2010…
By Paul Waldie, The Globe & Mail, Feb. 20, 2018
As Oxfam officials struggle to contain a scandal over allegations of sexual misconduct…
By teleSUR, Feb. 15, 2018
The historic Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti caught fire early on Tuesday morning, destroying most of its…
By Media View, Al Jazeera, Feb 13, 2018
Brian Concannon, a human rights lawyer and the executive director of the Institute for Justice…
By Joyce Nelson, Counterpunch, Feb. 16, 2018
With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada’s…
By Jackie MacVicar, Upside Down World, Feb. 13, 2018
Ismael Hernandez was the most recent fatal victim of police and military violence in…
By Isabelle Papillon, Haiti Liberté, Feb. 14, 2018
Oxfam International, the largest and most esteemed British non-governmental…
By: Letter signed by *, The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2018
In 2008 some of us had written to Barbara Stocking, then Oxfam chief executive,…
By Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, Feb. 10, 2018
The year after Oxfam secretly forced out top officials for using prostitutes in Haiti…
By John Queally, Common Dreams, Jan. 26, 2018
The head of highly respected non-governmental organization focused on relief work in Haiti…
By Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, Feb. 9, 2018
The charity Oxfam admitted Friday that some of its employees engaged in sexual misconduct…
By Ben Schiller, Fast Company, Feb. 9, 2018
Haiti hasn’t grown cotton in decades. Its once-abundant industry collapsed in the 1970s due to…
By Amy Bracken, Public Radio International (PRI), Feb. 1, 2018
The name of Haiti’s most prominent LGBT rights organization is Kouraj (…
By Bill Curry, The Globe & Mail, Feb. 6, 2018
A delegation of activists from Mexico – including the son of a community leader who was…
by Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 31, 2018
On Jan. 24, the venerable National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…
By Jackie McVicar, Marie-Eve Marleau, Steve Stewart, Guillaume Charbonneau, & Marie-Dominik Langlois *, Le Devoir, Jan. 27, 2018
* A …
By Charlotte Bellis, Al Jazeera, Jan. 26, 2018
In Haiti, around two million people who live in the capital, Port-au-Prince, are appealing…
By Janine Jackson & Jake Johnston, Counterspin, Jan. 24, 2018
Janine Jackson: Donald Trump’s vituperative language was his own, as he…
By Sharmini Peries & Gerardo Zelaya, REAL news, Jan. 26, 2018
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is proceeding with his…
By Alex Kasprak, Snopes, January 16, 2018
Claim:
Donald Trump sold a Trump Tower apartment to the brutal and corrupt former Haitian…