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Martin Regg Cohn, a deputy editor at the Toronto Star, notes in a column that when Governor General Michaelle Jean mentioned Haiti to Obama…
Kevin Pina’s film “Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits” (see trailer here) will screen in Vancouver Sunday March 29th at 2PM (SFU Vancouver…
Foreign Policy in Focus has published a critical look at the ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) doctrine by Steven Fake and Kevin Funk (for…
Agence Haitienne de Presse has an article on the Dominican writer Carlos Agramonte, author of the novel “Slavery of the Haitian sugar cane…
The UN has released a report on security and development in Haiti that cites successes in security and justice, but failures in health and…
Compiled from reports by Roger Annis, Niraj Joshi, Mary Skerrett and Regan Boychuk
Chapters of the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHIP)…
DemocracyNow! spoke with Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnappings of a President, as…
The Preval government has called on the US government to end the practice of funding of NGOs in Haiti and to instead fund the Haitian…
Market Wire reports that the Minister of International Cooperation, Beverly Oda, will be in Haiti March 15th through 18th.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO…
(original story from an AP report; find original here)
Giving birth is fraught with danger in Haiti
By JONATHAN M. KATZ – 1 day ago
PORT-AU…
Kevin Pina discusses talks with Haiti Human Rights Lawyers Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon Jr. They discuss the demonization of Lavalas,…
Conservative Party MP Jason Kenney is admitting error in appointing a former member of the Aristide government to the Comminision of the…
Pina discusses the protests that met Ban Ki-moon and Bill Clinton in Haiti, current events in Haiti, as well as Clinton’s role in Haiti in…
DemocracyNow! reports on Clinton’s visit to Haiti:
In Haiti, former President Bill Clinton joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday…
Agence Haitienne de Presse (9 March 2009) reports that tens of thousands of members and supporters of the Fanmi Lavalas political party…
Agence Haitienne de Presse (9 March 2009) reports that a tribunal has recommended the reintegration of Fanmi Lavalas in upcoming partial…
The Globe and Mail reports that former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna visited Haiti alongside former President Bill Clinton and UN…
p>Agence Haitienne de Presse (5th March, 2009) reports that Fanmi Lavalas is organizing a protest calling for the return of Jean…
Agence Haitienne de Presse (March 4th, 2009) reports that Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is denying that it has any political…
Juan Cole reviews the recent James Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’ here. He notes that the film presents a:
Bond at odds with the United…
(original story from DemocracyNow!) Thousands Protest Anniversary of US-Backed Coup in Haiti In Haiti, several thousand people staged a…