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The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in Haiti
06/23/2008
Privatization, free trade, and market forces...the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies, asks Duncan Green.
Read moreFrom: New Statesman Related: [Botswana] [Poverty] [Democracy] [Geopolitics] [Governance] |
06/14/2008
Nearly 3,000 Americans have signed a petition by an international aid group urging the G-8 finance ministers, meeting this weekend, to cancel Haiti's "illegitimate" billion dollar debt as Haitians struggle to endure sky-rocketing prices of food and fuel.
Read moreFrom: Jubilee USA Network Related: [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
06/09/2008
Single mother Judith Alexandre and other Haitian families are hard hit by raised food prices, but an international relief organization is working diligently to provide for those who have no other option but to skip meals.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam America Related: [Aid] [Food] [Poverty] [Trade] |
05/05/2008
Peasants' and other grassroots organizations are promoting change in Haiti, write two agricultural activists who paid a visit to the Caribbean island, where they found food scarcity, environmental damage, and general insecurity are widespread.
Read moreFrom: Grassroots International |
05/01/2008
The Haitian government and the international community contributed significantly to the dire situation that sparked the early April food riots in the Caribbean nation, writes anthropologist Mark Schuller.
Read moreFrom: Americas Policy Program |
04/03/2008
The 35th anniversary celebration of a Haiti's largest and oldest peasant movement demonstrates the organization's ability to empower rural people and the vitality of grassroots democracy in this Caribbean nation, writes Nikhil Aziz.
Read moreFrom: Grassroots International |
02/18/2008
Addressing infants' and maternal nutrition needs during a child's first two years of life is much more effective, in terms of promoting children's physical and cognitive development, than treating children who are already moderately malnourished, says a study from an international food research institute.
Read moreFrom: International Food Policy Research Institute Image: At a nutrition rehabilitation center in Madagascar. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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11/29/2007
Dr. Jean "Bill" Pape, founder of the first Haitian clinic to investigate the Caribbean AIDS epidemic, is seeing infection rates drop thanks to pro-condom campaigns, increased HIV-screening, and safer blood banks.
Read moreFrom: Heroes of HIV |
11/14/2007
Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.
Read moreFrom: Digital Opportunity Channel Related: [Uruguay] [Peru] [Mexico] [India] [Education] [Intermediate Technology] [International Cooperation] [ICT] |
11/02/2007
As natural disasters ravish the Caribbean and Central Africa, the United Nations has announced the launch of a new office that will use space technology to reduce and prevent disasters around the world.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Congo] [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Dominican Republic] Image: The world pictured from outer space. © Michael Klare / MediaChannel
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10/24/2007
Haitian and global activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has not been seen since August. Ben Terral of Haiti Action contrasts the Haiti of the US and its proxy army with the real Haiti of Lovinsky, the Lavalas movement and the masses of Haitian people.
Read moreFrom: Pambazuka News |
10/12/2007
Roughly 10 percent of Haitian children live a life of forced slave labor because their families cannot afford to raise them. Listen as they explain in their own words the hardships they endure as they are sent away from their homes to serve under families in the city.
Read moreFrom: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting |
08/24/2007
On August 23, 1791 the slaves of Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) began their historic revolt, sparking the gradual process that resulted in the international elimination of slavery and the slave trade.
Read moreFrom: Human Rights Education Associates Related: [Dominican Republic] |
05/14/2007
El primer mandatario haitiano agradeció igualmente la iniciativa de las naciones que conforman al Alba y en especial al Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, por la propuesta de garantizar el suministro de 100% de las necesidades de energía a las naciones del Alba, y también a Haití.
Read moreFrom: Groupe Medialternatif Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] Image: Haiti
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05/08/2007
En días pasados hemos asistido a algunos actos de intimidación contra la ciudadana dominicana Sonia Pierre, ya sea destruyendo su fotografía de la exposición pública en el Parque Independencia, donde se la considera entre las 100 mujeres dominicanas representativas de nuestra sociedad
Read moreFrom: Radio Internacional Feminista Related: [Human Rights] [Civil Society] |
04/26/2007
El actual ministro haitiano de la Planificación y Cooperación externa, Jean Max Bellerive, lanzó, el jueves 12 de abril, la preparación del Documento de la estrategia nacional de crecimiento y reducción de la pobreza (DSNCRP, sigla en francés de Document de stratégie nationale pour la croissance et la réduction de la pauvreté).
Read moreFrom: Groupe Medialternatif Related: [Development] [Social Exclusion] [Governance] Image: http://www.almendron.com
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04/19/2007
Actos de intimidacion contra Sonia Pierre constituyen señales de una intolerancia y de una denegación de integración de la comunidad de ascendencia haitiana, expresan las organizaciones de defensa de derechos humanos a las conferencias episcopales catolicas romanas, haitiana y dominicana, reunidas en Puerto Principe del 15 al 17 de abril de 2007.
Read moreFrom: Groupe Medialternatif Related: [Dominican Republic] [Migration] [Social Exclusion] [Human Rights] |
04/17/2007
Helicópteros rondan las favelas (villas miseria) durante toda la madrugada y un cerco militar alrededor de los barrios populares impide a los habitantes trasladarse, ir a trabajar, llevar a sus hijos a la escuela y hasta buscar agua.
Read moreFrom: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina Related: [Social Exclusion] [Human Rights] [Arms & Military] |
04/09/2007
Dos días antes de la Nochebuena, el 22 de diciembre a las tres de la madrugada, 400 soldados bajo el mando de oficiales brasileños asaltaron con blindados Cité Soleil, barrio de Puerto Príncipe, apoyados por helicópteros que disparaban sobre la atemorizada población que se refugiaba en sus precarias viviendas.
Read moreFrom: International Relations Center Related: [Human Rights] [Civil Rights] [Arms & Military] Image: Mujer en Cité Soleil, Haití
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03/30/2007
Läntisen pallonpuoliskon köyhimmästä maasta, Haitista, kantautuu kerrankin positiivisia uutisia. Maan turvallisuustilanne on kohentunut, mikä mahdollistaa myös poliittisen vakauden ja paremmat talousnäkymät, totesi Helsingissä vieraillut Haitin ja YK:n yhteishankkeen edustaja Mamadou M'Baye.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Development] Image: © Refugees International
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