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In June 2011, a delegation of three Canadians traveled through the earthquake zone in Haiti on a fact-finding and solidarity mission.…
Haiti has high hopes for jobs at new industrial park
By Joseph Guyler Delva, Reuters, Nov 28, 2011
CARACOL, Haiti, Nov 28 (Reuters…
International media outlets have reported extensively on scattered incidents of abuse and neglect by the UN Stabilization Mission in…
An Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez of the Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade
Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez is…
Vancouver BC
November 28, 2011
To: Peter O'Neil, Postmedia (Vancouver Sun)
Hello Mr. O'Neil,
How appropriate for your recent column…
A Canadian Community Compared to Haiti, At Minus 40 Degrees
By Peter O'Neill, Vancouver Sun, Nov 24, 2011
This week wasn’t one of the…
IJDH Attorney Nicole Phillips Speaks to U.S. Public Radio, broadcast
on Worldview , WBEZ Radio (Chicago), Nov. 21, 2011
Although it's…
By Father Ray Bourgeois, published in Common Dreams, November 25, 2011
On November 18, thousands of people gathered outside the gates…
By Anastasia Moloney, Alernet, Nov 23, 2011
BOGOTA (AlertNet) - Just over a year after the cholera epidemic hit Haiti, hundreds of…
The following article appeared in the Haiti bi-daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste. Translation from original French to English by Roger Annis…
Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal
November 17, 2011
To: Members of the Parliament and Senate of Canada
Subject: Concern…
To: Members of the Parliament and Senate of Canada
Subject: Concern about social and human rights situation in Haiti, and Canadian government policy in Haiti
November 17, 2011
This two page letter was written in order to provide some updated information to MPs and Senators, including references to further reading on the subject of Haiti. A printable version of the letter is included in this page.
La version francaise de cettre lettre est disponsible ici.
By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov 18, 2011
President Michel Martelly is holding off on a controversial plan to reinstate the…
Canada in Haiti: Appeal for more humanitarian assistance and less political interference
Version française ci-dessous ainsi qu'…
To: Members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, House of Commons
Re: Commentary on your meeting of October 18, 2011 concerning Haiti
November 15, 2011
This six-page letter is a commentary by two activists of the Canada Haiti Action Network. It expresses concern over the limited range of information on Haiti that the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development of the House of Commons received at its session of October 18, 2011 devoted to Haiti. It provides links for detailed reading on the situation in Haiti and makes suggestions for broadening the range of iinvited witnesses at future sessions of the Committee.
La version française de cette lettre est ci-dessous ainsi qu'ici.
Roger Annis, Director of the Canadian Delegation to Haiti and coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network
October 19, Noon-1:15…
HAITI RECONSTRUCTION: Factors Contributing to Delays in USAID Infrastructure Construction
November 2011. Report by U.S. Government…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Français ci-dessous
Partners In Health Canada marks launch with appeal to staunch Haiti's cholera epidemic…
PARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADA
November 16, 2011
Dear Friends,
We write to you today with some very exciting news: Partners In Health…
Crime surveys debunk rationale for military occupation force in Haiti
By Roger Annis, Nov 17, 2011
According to an article in today…
Two articles to follow:
Ghost of Haitian army’s bloody past set for revival
Major donors wary of Martelly plan to restore military…
Partners In Health Canada marks launch with appeal to staunch Haiti’s cholera epidemic
Canadian sister organization to global health…
By Roger Annis, Published in Haiti Liberté, November 16 - 22, 2011, Vol. 5, No. 18
Thirteen officers of the Haitian National…
November 17, 2011
Vancouver BC
Hello Editor,
I read with interest your article from yesterday by Jennifer Campbell concerning the…
November 14, 2011
The following is the Executive Summary of Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Global Food System, published in October…
CHOLERA AND POST-EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE IN HAITI
Health Cluster Bulletin, Nov 7, 2011, #29.
Excerpts of bulletin follow. Full bulletin (…
This is a sister people, affirms Haitian President in Havana
By Leandro Maceo Leyva, Granma, November 15, 2011
THIS is a sister…
An Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez of the Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade
Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez is…
November 8, 2011
Five thousand Haitian victims of the cholera epidemic have today undertaken legal action against the United Nations.…
Notorious Rio de Janeiro slum taken over by Brazilian troops
By Stuart Grudgings, Reuters Nov 13, 2011
RIO DE JANEIRO – Three…
Report titled "The Emperor Has No Clothes"* finds genetically modified crops fail to increase yields let alone solve hunger, soil erosion…
After two weeks of hard work to obtain signatures and the constitutive documents, on October 27 the National Front of Popular Resistance…