Recent Feature Articles

By Counterpoint Radio, Jan. 4, 2016 Kim Ives, journalist and co-founder of the weekly newspaper Haiti Liberté, discusses the "slow-motion…
By Christopher Woolf, Public Radio International (PRI), Jan. 12, 2016 In the immediate aftermath, the world rallied and pledged enormous…
By Ellie Happel & Mark Schuller, The World Post, Jan. 12, 2016 The earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince and killed hundreds of…
By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Jan. 10, 2016 As a paralyzing political crisis pushed Haiti into an uncertain phase a year ago this…
By Joe Emersberger, teleSUR, Jan. 6, 2016 The now rightwing-controlled National Assembly in Venezuela will try to pass an “amnesty law”…
By Jake Johnston, teleSUR, Dec. 31, 2016 As Haitians prepared to go to the polls in 2010, 45 members of the U.S. Congress wrote to then…
By Haiti Elections Blog, Jan. 5, 2016 On Sunday 3 January, the Independent Electoral Evaluation Commission released its report on the 25…
By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Jan. 3, 2015 A commission charged with evaluating Haiti’s Oct. 25 presidential and legislative…
By Cynthia McKinney, Russian Television, Dec. 14, 2015   Robert Baer just made an incredibly important admission that for me comes way too…
CHIP readers, The web conference organized by the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) is now available online. The…
by Dady Chery, News Junkie Post, Dec. 9, 2015 According to the International News Safety Institute (INSI), over 100 journalists were killed…
By Nathalie Miller, Foreign Policy in Focus, Dec. 8, 2015 In October, Haitians went to the polls in a critical election for nearly 5,000…
By Beatrice Lindstrom, Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR), Dec. 10, 2015 “It is with great sadness that I write you this…
By Brian Concannon Jr., The Hill, Dec. 8, 2015 Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, is a charismatic showman who has been a faithful ally to…
The report documents the history and legal issues surrounding gold mining in Haiti. Canadian companies own the rights to gold mines in…
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Dec. 2, 2015 Apart from the ruling party’s candidate Jovenel Moïse, who supposedly won 33% of the Oct. 25 first…