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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti Leaves Displaced With Few Good Choices
by Isabel Macdonald on June 20 2011, 10:38AM
Bill Clinton’s marque housing initiative is illustrative of so much that’s gone wrong thus far in Haiti’s painfully slow reconstruction.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Rape in Haiti: The Aftershocks Continue
by Michelle Chen on May 23 2011, 9:06AM
A year and a half later, squalid camps remain the only homes for hundreds of thousands of people, and reports of sexual violence inside them are rising.
Topics: Global Justice, Haiti
U.S. Set to Resume Deportations to Haiti
by Seth Freed Wessler on January 14 2011, 11:30AM
And the situation’s worse for people with even minor criminal convictions.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Where is the Relief Money for Haiti?
by Hatty Lee, Jamilah King on January 12 2011, 6:05PM
We take a look what money’s missing, and what could be the hold-up.
Topics: Haiti
Haiti’s Remarkable HIV Turnaround May Be Undone by Earthquake
by Rod McCullom on January 12 2011, 3:17PM
Global health watchers worry the island’s epidemic is exploding anew as the recovery drags on.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti, Health
Photos of Haiti’s Slow March Toward Recovery
by Hatty Lee, Jamilah King on January 12 2011, 3:10PM
One year later, we take a look back at the lessons learned since the country’s catastrophic earthquake.
Topics: Haiti
Learning From Shattered Haiti’s Year of Struggle
by Michelle Chen on January 4 2011, 9:55AM
Global Justice columnist Michelle Chen says the earthquake revealed deep problems with global aid systems, but also may create new models of locally led development.
Topics: Global Justice, Haiti
Good Intentions Haven’t Done Much For Haiti
by Jamilah King on December 13 2010, 4:43PM
Joe Mozingo at the Los Angeles Times reports that foreign aid workers do more harm than good.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
The Total Failure of Global Aid in Haiti
by Michelle Chen on October 13 2010, 10:15AM
So what about supporting some home-grown solutions?
Topics: Global Justice, Haiti
by Jamilah King on October 5 2010, 10:17AM
Brown University announced the singer has accepted one of its prestigious visiting fellowships.
Topics: Haiti
Wyclef Just Won’t Face The Music
by Naima Ramos-Chapman on August 26 2010, 4:14PM
Now he’s made a protest song to appeal to the masses.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Wyclef Says His Troubled Haiti Campaign Isn’t Done Yet
by Jamilah King on August 20 2010, 10:09AM
Shady money dealings, and Haitian residency, become the candidate’s biggest roadblocks.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Letter Urges French to Repay Haiti’s “Independence Debt”
by Jamilah King on August 16 2010, 10:46AM
Activists claim France “extorted” the money, now estimated to be worth $22 billion.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
by Naima Ramos-Chapman on August 9 2010, 6:53PM
The stars have already weighed in on the singer’s run for office. Now we want your thoughts.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Dispatch from Haiti: Wondering About Wyclef
by Ruxandra Guidi on August 6 2010, 2:05PM
The young voters “Clef” hopes to lead aren’t yet sure they can follow him—or any other politician.
Topics: Dispatches, Global Affairs, Haiti
IMF Cancels Haiti’s $268 Million Debt
by Jamilah King on July 23 2010, 10:41AM
The move may allow the country to start the arduous process of long-term structural readjustment.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Haiti Gets Shortchanged on Aid
by Julianne Hing on July 16 2010, 2:52PM
Since a U.N. donors conference in March, when countries pledged over $5.3 billion to help Haiti, only $534 million has been delivered.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
U.S. Extends Deadline for Haitians to Get Protected Status
by Julianne Hing on July 14 2010, 6:05PM
The filing period, initially set to end next week, is pushed back to January 2011.
Topics: Haiti, Immigration
In Haiti, a Miami Transplant Seeks New Horizons
by Michelle Chen on July 13 2010, 1:33PM
Shooby Leroy Jean-Pierre finds despair and opportunity in earthquake-stricken Leogane.
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti, Immigration
The Women of Haiti Still in Rubble
by Michelle Chen on July 12 2010, 9:37AM
Today marks one half year since an earthquake flattened Port-au-Prince. The women of Haiti are still lost in the wreckage. The human rights of women in post-quake Haiti have been a barometer of injustice in the international response to the…
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