http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/141 2009-11-21T03:53:40-08:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/20/35872009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a 'tok-tok-tok-tok' sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/10/34462009-11-10T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, 'president of Haiti' and 'viceroy'.</p>

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<p>On the morning of Nov. 7, 2008 shortly after 10 a.m. as the second period was beginning, College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-storey cinderblock school in the Nerette neighbourhood of Petionville, fell in on itself.</p>

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<p>Government authorities in Haiti face recent criticism over allegations that they continue to jail political dissidents.</p>

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<p>Following the recommendation of President Rene Preval, the lower house of the Haitian Parliament voted Tuesday to raise the minimum wage in the assembly sector from 1.29 dollars (70 gourde) to only 3.20 dollars (125 gourde) per day, rather than the 5.12 dollars (200 gourde) which had been demanded and passed.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/07/22/22602009-07-22T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Shockingly high levels of violence against women in Haiti forced the U.N. to send peacekeepers to the Caribbean country in 2004.</p>

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<p>Amazil Jean-Baptiste remembers when they came to kill her son.</p>

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<p>In the shadow of the Eglise Sainte Claire in the Petite Place Cazeau neighbourhood of Haiti’s bustling capital, Frantz Saintil is visiting his daughter and reflecting on the more than two decades he spent abroad before finding himself back in his native country of Haiti seven years ago.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/06/15/18272009-06-15T00:00:00-07:00

<p>The National University of Haiti (UEH) has been gripped by crisis for the last two months, operating under the constant threat of student strikes staged to demand reinstatement of cancelled courses and an increase in the minimum wage.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/04/29/13452009-04-29T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Elias Pina sits in a fertile high mountain valley on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Twice weekly, the side streets fill with Haitians and Dominicans trading produce, used clothing, kitchen equipment and shoes.</p>