January 4, 2013
Categories: Economy, Sovereignty
Tags: religion
The archbishop of Port-au-Prince Monsignor Guire Poulard Thursday denounced unemployment and corruption in Haiti at the time of the feast of Our Lady of the Assumption celebrated in the town of Petit-Goave. In a church filled with worshipers, pilgrims from elsewhere and in the presence of government officials, parliamentarians, political leaders, members of civil society, […]
December 27, 2012
Categories: Justice
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Haiti’s Silenced Victims – NYTimes.com. She had been walking alone a few blocks from our hotel when she was forced into a house and brutally raped. A TEXT MESSAGE was the first sign that something was wrong. In the week after Hurricane Sandy hit Haiti, our research team was assessing post-disaster crime, food security and […]
December 26, 2012
Categories: Foreign Policy, Recipients
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In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths – NYTimes.com. Oxfam spent $96 million over two years and devoted a third to management and logistics. Doctors Without Borders spent 58 percent of its $135 million in 2010 on staff and transportation costs.
December 24, 2012
Categories: Foreign Policy, Sovereignty
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The garment industry is a global web of nightmares, where suppliers compete to offer their products at the lowest possible cost to stores like Walmart, The Gap and JCPenney. The cutthroat competition can mean starvation wages and unsafe conditions for the people working in sweatshops, the people who stitch, press and fold the T-shirts, pants […]
December 24, 2012
Categories: Foreign Policy, Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, Sovereignty, Water
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Nearly three years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, uncleared rubble and ruined buildings remain in downtown Port-au-Prince. Vegetable vendors worked amid the debris.