February 5, 2011
Categories: Corruption, Politics, Religion, Sovereignty, United States
Tags: aid, charity, Franklin Graham, monsanto, policy, Usaid
The story that best describes Haiti’s last year is not from a slum, nor from a cholera clinic. It’s not to be found in the rubble—but in a courtroom in Texas. In November 2010, Lewis Lucke, a former U.S. ambassador to Swaziland and former USAID official in Haiti, filed suit against Haiti Recovery Group Ltd. […]
February 5, 2011
Categories: Access, Economy, Natural Disaster
Tags: 2010 earthquake, immigration, Miami
New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/education/16winerip.html?_r=0 Miami JAN. 15, 2011 Last year after the earthquake in Haiti, Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade schools — the fourth-biggest district in the nation, with 345,000 students — expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country. He […]
February 5, 2011
Categories: Politics
Tags:
Lawyer requests passport for Jean-Bertrand Aristide – Miami-Dade Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/world/americas/01haiti.html
February 5, 2011
Categories: Justice
Tags: Duvalier, prosecution
a new law went into effect in Switzerland allowing the government to claim dictators’ funds deposited in their banks and believed to be of criminal origin. Duvalier allegedly has up to $7.3 million deposited there. The statute is dubbed the “Duvalier law.” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay offered to assist in his […]
February 5, 2011
Categories: History, Human Rights
Tags: Duvalier, human rights
“He inherited a system of government that was based on killing people,” said Jean-Claude Bajeux, a democracy activist in Port-au-Prince. “I think that was the tragedy of this guy: He was not aware of the monstrosity of what he was doing every day. To him, killing people and torturing people was normal life.”Human rights cases […]