Haiti

Sexual violence in Haiti

SamSam — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:42:57 +0000

Women speak out against rape in Haiti's camps

karenmariewag — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:10:42 +0000

Haiti disaster

Pilot — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:52:34 +0000

US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti

Niluccio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:42:11 +0000

American doctors are begging their Government to accept critically injured Haitian children after one baby girl was airlifted to hospital in Florida.

Meanwhile, in an exercise dubbed Operation Pierre Pan, the Catholic Church in Miami is drawing up plans to rescue thousands of Haitian orphans, mirroring the Operation Pedro Pan airlift of 1960 in which 14,000 Cuban children were taken to the city.

Source: US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti

Our role in Haiti's plight | Peter Hallward | Comment is free | The Guardian

ZigZag — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:30:33 +0000

Haiti is now a country where, according to the best available study, around 75% of the population "lives on less than $2 per day, and 56% – four and a half million people – live on less than $1 per day". It is this poverty and powerlessness that account for the full scale of the horror in Port-au-Prince today. Since the late 1970s, relentless neoliberal assault on Haiti's agrarian economy has forced tens of thousands of small farmers into overcrowded urban slums.

Source: Our role in Haiti's plight | Peter Hallward | Comment is free | The Guardian

Island of lost souls - Haiti

kinvara — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:56:01 +0100

Patrick Farrell's devastating photographs of the aftermath of last year's hurricanes in Haiti won him the Pulitzer prize this week.

Here is a selection

Source: Island of lost souls - Haiti

Sex attacks blight lives of Haitian girls

fionamc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:04:49 +0000

The government of Haiti is being urged to take action to stop the wave of sexual violence that is blighting the lives of young women in one of the world's poorest nations.

Source: Sex attacks blight lives of Haitian girls

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush declares Texas disaster zone

damianrafferty — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:17:31 +0100

But major roads were washed out near the town and the damage was still "immense", The Associated Press reports.
Police agencies say it could take days to get into the areas worst affected in Galveston and the extent of the damage may not be known for some time, our correspondent adds.
Earlier, Ike caused devastation in Cuba and Haiti, where hundreds of people have died several tropical storms over the last month.

Source: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush declares Texas disaster zone

Hurricane Hanna hits Haiti ... and the USA

Niluccio — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:09:42 +0100