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, [...]
Co-authored by Carrie Bettinger-Lopez and Sunita Patel, This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency formalized its Haitian deportation policy. ICE claims it will consider medical and humanitarian factors when deciding whether to deport someone to Haiti. Yet, the policy will still lead to deportations, as early as next week, of individuals like “Fred,” a [...]
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 …Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now. Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham. Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire House of Deputies and one-third of the country’s Senate. But election authorities have illegally excluded all [...]
Continue reading …“If it gets any worse,” said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, “we’re not going to survive.” Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We are in a broiling “tent” with a group of women trying to raise their families in a public park. Around the back of the Haitian National Palace, the park hosts a [...]
Continue reading …Six months after the earthquake devastated Haiti, most of the 3 million people who have been affected by the quake still live in misery. The Haitian government estimated that at least “222,570 people died, 300,572 were injured, 188,383 houses collapsed or were damaged, of which 105,000 were completely destroyed.” Last month, a report released by the United [...]
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 [...]
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