Global IssuesNews headlines for “Haiti”, page 16
U.S.: Obama Urged to Grant Haitians 'Protected Status'
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. and international relief efforts chugged toward Haiti Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced an immediate investment of 100 million dollars in the relief efforts underway following Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
HAITI: Agencies Scramble to Avert Worse Humanitarian Disaster
- Inter Press Service
The enormous relief effort being mounted in Haiti since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled most of Port-au-Prince is facing a host of difficulties, including bottlenecks at the main airport and lack of heavy equipment to clear debris from streets and roads, aid officials say.
HAITI: U.S. Residents Mount Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
A group of Haitian American leaders, state and local officials met late Tuesday night to map out humanitarian relief efforts as the extent of the damage from a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti became clearer.
HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
- Inter Press Service
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.
HAITI: Clinton Revives Modest Optimism for Island's Economy
- Inter Press Service
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'.
HAITI: A Year After School Collapse, Parents Seek Justice
- Inter Press Service
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.
HAITI: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist
- Inter Press Service
Government authorities in Haiti face recent criticism over allegations that they continue to jail political dissidents.
HAITI: Export Workers Await Overdue Wage Increase
- Inter Press Service
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.
HAITI: Women 'More Protected' to Report Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
Shockingly high levels of violence against women in Haiti forced the U.N. to send peacekeepers to the Caribbean country in 2004.
HAITI: Town Still Grapples With 2004 Trauma
- Inter Press Service
Amazil Jean-Baptiste remembers when they came to kill her son.
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