Global IssuesNews headlines for “Haiti”, page 7
HAITI: Do Elections Equal Reconstruction?
- Inter Press Service
Posters cover almost every conceivable surface, even tombs in graveyards. Trucks mounted with loud speakers blare campaign jingles. Candidates' faces are everywhere. It's elections 'à la américaine', complete with polls and whistle-stops.
HAITI: Anger Erupts at U.N. as Cholera Toll Nears 1,000
- Inter Press Service
'People are going to take the body to MINUSTAH to show them what they did,' Jean-Luc Surfin told IPS by phone as riots erupted against Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping force on Monday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
HAITI: 'Cash-for-Work' Seen as a Double-Edged Sword
- Inter Press Service
All across Haiti, United Nations, bilateral and non- governmental agencies are running scores of 'cash-for-work' programmes. But are they 'working'?
HAITI: As Cholera Spreads, Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc in Camps
- Inter Press Service
Standing on a raised piece of pavement across from the tent where she has lived for the past 10 months, Violet Nicola threw up her hands.
HAITI: Quake Refugees Seek Moratorium on Evictions
- Inter Press Service
The children standing at the tent beside the filthy pool of water put their needs simply when asked what they wish for: 'À manger; l'école,' they said, practically in unison. In English, 'We want to eat; we want to go to school.'
Lurching from One Disaster to the Next
- Inter Press Service
The world is ill-prepared for the human toll from the expected increase in floods, droughts and extreme storms and hurricanes on the horizon.
Haitian Mothers Find Care in Dominican Republic, but Future Is Bleak
- Inter Press Service
In the spacious lobby of the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia maternity hospital, more than a hundred people wait quietly in chairs, overlooked by a 20-foot-high coloured mosaic inset portraying the patron saint of the Dominican Republic.
HAITI: Cholera Outbreak Highlights Clean Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The man arrived from Arcahaie, near St. Marc in central Haiti where a cholera outbreak exploded last week, initially overwhelming the local medical grid. It was an hour's journey to a hospital in Lafiteau, near the capital, where he died on Sunday.
HAITI: Health Workers Scramble to Keep Cholera out of Crowded Camps
- Inter Press Service
Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are 'appalling', according a recent report by Refugees International.
LATIN AMERICA: Women Peacekeepers Have a Vital Role to Play
- Inter Press Service
In June 2009, Chilean army captain Andrea Fuentes travelled to the city of Cap-Haïtien, in north Haiti, to serve for six months in her country's contingent in the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
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