Global IssuesNews headlines for “Haiti”, page 8
HAITI: Tensions Mount Ahead of Controversial Polls
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations' role in rebuilding Haiti is again being questioned days after peacekeepers clashed with a group of activists protesting the renewal of the 12,000-member U.N. military and police force near the Haitian capital of Port-au- Prince.
Haiti's 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain
- Inter Press Service
Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in Haiti's 1,354 squalid refugee camps. She and 1,200 others are jammed into 300 tents and plastic tarp-shacks on a soccer field in Grand Goâve.
Education Collapses in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
When Angelique tells her story, sadness and anger are mixed in her voice. She's a student at the bustling University of Paris 8 here, but her country and family are never far from her thoughts.
HAITI: Finding Butterflies Among the Rubble
- Inter Press Service
Michele Garlin had massive headaches after Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake killed some 230,000 people and left 1.3 million others, like herself, homeless.
HAITI: Empty Promises, Empty Votes
- Inter Press Service
'We are not going to the election in tents. We want housing before elections.' These words were chanted in Creole and held high on placards during a recent demonstration at Haiti's crumpled National Palace, where protesters decried 'inhumane' conditions in the camps for displaced people and condemned the government and NGOs which they said have abandoned them.
Haitian Women at Increased Risk of Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
The January earthquake that devastated Haiti put women and girls in the poorest country in the hemisphere at an increased risk of falling prey to people trafficking, activists and experts warn.
Haitian Women Struggle to Keep Hope Alive
- Inter Press Service
'I'm going to do everything possible to raise my daughter. My daughter is my future. And I can see my future in her,' says Mirlene Saint Juste, a rice merchant in the Opoto market of Gonaives in northern Haiti.
HAITI: Hurricanes and the River Flowing
- Inter Press Service
In the evening the lowering clouds burst. Through the night they loosed their torrents on the southeastern coast of Haiti.
Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief
- Inter Press Service
A loan deal between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and flood-stricken Pakistan announced Thursday has drawn the ire of several NGOs that claim the deal represents an 'inadequate' and 'cynical' response to the disaster that is estimated to have affected the lives of millions.
HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies
- Inter Press Service
At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti's capital city, the sun is already up. It's the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She's been mixing the ingredients on the side of the road to sell to her neighbours for the past eight years.
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