Global Issues News Headlines for “Haiti”

Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal:

2012-01-31T18:18:00-08:00

International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986.

U.N. 'outraged' At Sexual Abuse By Peacekeepers In Haiti:

2012-01-23T17:56:00-08:00

The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers - for the third time in five years.

From Peacekeeping To Partisan Policing?:

2012-01-18T09:47:00-08:00

The image of United Nations peacekeeping operations has become seriously tarnished in recent years, say some independent experts who monitor the U.N. missions around the world.

Report Exposes 'survival Sex Trade' In Post-Earthquake Haiti:

2012-01-12T16:40:00-08:00

Eighteen-year-old 'Kettlyne', a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp — one of the many remaining tent-cities that houses refugees from the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake — is unable to feed her three-year-old daughter.

Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity:

2012-01-12T15:40:00-08:00

Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life.

Haiti: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday

2012-01-12T12:46:00-08:00

For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.

Haiti: Open for Business — Part 2

2011-12-20T17:57:00-08:00

Ever since being elected earlier this year, Haitian President Michel Martelly and his team have been betting Haiti's reconstruction on foreign investors.

Haiti: Open For Business — Part 1

2011-12-20T15:18:00-08:00

'Haiti is open for business.' That's what President Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly said at a recent ceremony as he and former U.S. president Bill Clinton laid a cornerstone for a giant industrial zone being built in northern Haiti.

Haiti: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water — Part 2

2011-11-25T09:20:00-08:00

Despite, or perhaps because of, a host of international actors, 2.5 million U.S. dollars in funding and five years of empty promises, residents of some of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighbourhoods have yet to see running water in their vicinity.

Haiti: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water — PART 1

2011-11-25T09:05:00-08:00

2.5 million U.S. dollars to supply water to several marginal neighbourhoods in the capital. Approved in 2006. Five years later the water has yet to run. Children are still in the streets bearing bottles and buckets.