Final whistle for 514 families as Haitian government illegally closes stadium camp
By Beatrice Lindstrom, Human rights lawyer and Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti/ Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, This post was co-authored by Jocelyn Brooks, who is an Ella Baker associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights, based at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, [...]
Japan’s “civilized” response to the earthquake and tsunami has inspired all the wrong questions
March 17, 2011 2 CommentsFriday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami have evoked an outpouring of support for Japan. Oh sure, facebook has seen a handful of clever updates like “Japan had it coming…” and “The earthquake is just God’s way of getting you back for Pearl Harbor,” but overall the response has been overwhelmingly supportive, sometimes to a (pardon the [...]
Continue reading …One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need. In fact, the tragedy has served as an opportunity to further enrich corporate interests. The details of a recent lawsuit, as reported by Business Week, highlights the ways in which contractors – including [...]
Continue reading …In response to Amanda Kijera’s article Co-written by Susana Morris, Crunk Feminist Collective We are extremely disheartened to know that you were raped. We are emboldened by your courage to speak out about this experience and to attempt to grapple so soon with the social and political implications of what you and other Haitian women [...]
Continue reading …By Amanda Kijera, civic journalist and activist in Haiti Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity [...]
Continue reading …American relief efforts should be driven by an understanding of what resources would provide the greatest benefit, rather than driven by an ego-based desire to be the hero that swoops in and saves the day. -Trina Chiasson, executive director of Media Make Change NEW YORK – A survivor of a natural disaster has a voice [...]
Continue reading …890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street Journal 644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations have exceed $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to the Red Cross, who had 15 people working on health projects in [...]
Continue reading …“I know that [Lionel Richie] has been asked like 150-something times to redo ‘We Are the World’ and he said no to everything until this Haiti thing happened. The moment he saw that it happened he was like, OK, ‘We Are the World.’ And to be one of the people they called to have fresh [...]
Continue reading …PORT-AU-PRINCE – Jan 31, 2010 – Ten Baptist church workers will appear in a Haitian court tomorrow for attempting to transport illegally 33 Haitian children by bus in an attempt to save children, the workers said. The US Embassy has confirmed 10 US citizens are being held for “alleged violations of Haitian laws related to [...]
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