News stories by Jane Regan

, Nov 08 (IPS) - Pedro sought a safer life. He traveled to Somerville from Chalantenango, El Salvador on foot, by bus, car, and in the back of a tractor-trailer truck.

SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts, May 06 (IPS) - He did everything right. Worked hard. Excelled in school. Captain of his soccer team. He's been scouted by a half-dozen colleges and universities.

Carrefour, HAITI, Jan 20 (IPS) - Mimose Gérard sits in her tent at Gaston Margron camp, surrounded by large bags filled with plastic bottles. She earns just pennies for each, but that's better than nothing.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dic 03 (IPS) - Haiti's minimum wage will nudge up 12 percent on Jan. 1, from 4.65 to 5.23 dollars (or 200 to 225 gourdes) per day. Calculated hourly, it is up from 58 cents to 65 cents per hour, before taxes.

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jul 01 (IPS) - Communications scholars from around the world deplored the global financial crisis and called on their peers to take more active roles in the search for solutions at a recent four-day conference in Dublin, Ireland.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 01 (IPS) - For the first time ever, on Thursday Haiti's former dictator faced his accusers, answering questions about corruption and human rights abuses during his brutal 15-year regime (1971-1986).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 26 (IPS) - Angry and frustrated, but also cautiously hopeful, victims, human rights advocates and the Haitian population are waiting for Thursday, Feb. 28, the day former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has been ordered to appear at a hearing to determine whether or not he will face charges for human rights abuses committed during his brutal 15-year regime (1971-1986).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 24 (IPS) - Outraged that they have not been consulted, this week Haitian senators called for a moratorium on all activities connected with recently granted gold and copper mining permits.

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.

'In my opinion, there is no such thing as a natural disaster,' says Sylvia Richardson, a volunteer broadcaster, mother of two, assistant librarian, and the new vice president of the North American region of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).