Global IssuesNews headlines for “Haiti”, page 13
HAITI: Private Contractors 'Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot'
- Inter Press Service
Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging 'shock doctrine' for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
HAITI: Food Crisis Looms
- Inter Press Service
Haiti's misery after last month's earthquake will be compounded by a food catastrophe if the international community continues to ignore the country's agricultural needs, the United Nations has warned.
HAITI: U.N. Supports Move to Protect Heritage
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, and the government of Haiti have joined forces to try to safeguard and protect the Caribbean nation’s artistic heritage in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake which destroyed not only countless lives but also many national art treasures.
HAITI: Quake Victims Overwhelm Medical Capacity
- Inter Press Service
Seriously injured people continue to provide deep challenges to the city's barely functioning hospitals, weeks after a massive earthquake overwhelmed medical staff.
HAITI: Repairing the Third Rail — Part 3
- Inter Press Service
As Haitians struggle to comprehend what has happened to their lives — and begin to try to put them back together — the United Nations is reaching out to 'a vast and influential network' of about 60,000 voodoo priests.
US-HAITI: The Failure of Aid — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
The sick, injured and stressed people of Port au Prince are unlikely to be impressed by the small army of reconstruction contractors and development experts who are preparing to descend on Haiti. The reason? They've seen it all before.
US-HAITI: The Loan that Wasn't — Part 1
- Inter Press Service
On the one-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, Haitians continue to perish from a variety of causes, including death by red tape: they fall between the cracks of a still poorly-coordinated aid effort.
HAITI: Tensions Put on Hold as Dominican Republic Reaches Out
- Inter Press Service
Despite a history of often tense relations, the first nation to render assistance to Haiti after last month's devastating earthquake was its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic.
US-HAITI: Civil Rights Delegation Calls for Reparations
- Inter Press Service
A U.S. delegation to Haiti led by civil rights veteran Joe Beasley is calling for a 30-billion-dollar restitution payment by France to help Haiti rebuild after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, and the end of what Beasley refers to as an unofficial blockade of Haiti.
HAITI: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
- Inter Press Service
Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt.
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