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Disparition de Lovinsky Pierre Antoine ;une affaire d’Etat ? This article is about Lovinsky's desapearing...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 12:06pm PST
Targeting Aristide in Exile Elected Haiti's president in 1990. Its first ever democratically chosen one. By a sweeping two-thirds majority. Took office in February 1991. Deposed by an army-led coup in September with all the earmarks of being made-in-Washington. Returned to office in October 1994. Served until February 1996. According to Haitian law, he couldn't succeed himself. Reelect in November 2000 with 90% of the vote. Took office in February 2001. Served until February 29, 2004 when, in the middle of the night, US...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2008 9:51am PST
Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse Fatality estimates continued to rise Monday in Petionville, Haiti, as rescue workers searched through the rubble for survivors three days after a school collapsed on hundreds of children....
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 10:20pm PST
If World Bank Wants To Help Haiti, It Should Cancel Its Debt Bank President Robert Zoellick Visits Haiti Monday, should cancel the
$1 million/week the country sends to “Poverty-Fighting” Banks...
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 10:26pm PDT
Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti Friday, September 12, 2008 :The death toll in Haiti continues to rise following a series of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean. Official government figures have placed the number dead between 600 and 1,000, with more than 800,000 peoplehalf of them childrenin need of emergency aid throughout the country. Some 60,000 people in the hard-hit port city of Gonaives remain in temporary shelters....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 7:35am PDT
Haiti Struggles with Humanitarian Disaster in Aftermath of Deadly Storms Wednesday, September 10, 2008 :In Haiti, as many as 1,000 people have died and an estimated one million left homeless after the impoverished country was hit by four major storms and hurricanes in less than a month. We speak to the renowned physician Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, a group that provides free medical care in Haiti. After visiting Gonaives over the weekend, Dr. Farmer wrote, "After 25 years spent working in Haiti and having grown up in Florida, I can honestly ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 7:32am PDT
Haiti devastated by hurricanes Monday, September 8, 2008 :More than 500 have been left dead in Haiti after last Mondays landfall of Tropical Storm Hanna, according to conservative official estimates, and more than 650,000 Haitians are desperately in need of emergency aid. Hanna churned over Haiti for four days last week, wreaking destruction on the islands agriculture, fruit trees and shantytowns....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 7:38am PDT
Haiti Is Struck By Hanna, Drenched By Ike Sunday, September 7, 2008 : In Haiti, relief efforts continue almost a week after Tropical Storm Hanna caused extensive flooding on the island. The town of Gonaives was the hardest hit; scores of people were killed and much of the city remains under water. Aid workers are desperately trying to provide food, shelter and medicine to people there while fearing more flooding from Hurricane Ike....
Posted: Sun, Sep 7, 2008 9:51am PDT
Haiti: Former Haitian President Aristide Visits Chavez in South Africa Caracas- The former president of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide visited the head of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, today in Pretoria, taking advantage of his one-day visit to this African country, official sources revealed....
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 3:07am PDT
What did the Special Adviser learn about Haiti? Pre-Publication Release for AN ENCOUNTER WITH HAITI - Notes of a Special Adviser a book by Reginald Dumas who was Special Adviser on Haiti to UN Secretary General for six months in 2004...
Posted: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 12:29pm PDT
Help save the life of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine Call the American, French and Canadian Consulates for Haiti. They know what is going on....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 12:33pm PDT
Ex-Haitian soldiers end stand-off Thursday, July 31, 2008 : They had sought wages and reinstatement of army disbanded by ex-president Aristide....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 7:36am PDT
National Lawyers Guild Applauds Inter-American Court Decision in Yvon Neptune v. Haiti The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) welcomes the recent decision from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) finding that the State of Haiti has violated 11 provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights by illegally imprisoning former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune for two years and by continuing to deny him basic due process rights....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 11:43am PDT
Inter-American Court Finds Haiti Is Vilating Human Rights of Former PM Yvon Neptune The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) sharply criticized Haiti’s current and former governments for their treatment of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune in its first-ever case involving Haiti. It found Haiti responsible for violating 11 different provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights and ordered the government to pay Mr. Neptune $95,000 in damages and costs....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 10:12pm PDT
Haiti: Two PPN Militants Tragically Lynched in St. Raphael On June 26, an angry mob in the mountains near the northern town of St. Raphael attacked and killed two leading militants of the National Popular Party (PPN), mistaking them for thieves who had robbed a bank in the town earlier that day. One of the men was killed at the scene where the mob found them; the other died two days later in a hospital in the nearby city Cap Haitien....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 5:47am PDT
Petition for immediate cancellation of Haiti's debt The U.S. should not force impoverished Haiti to re-pay debts during this severe food crisis!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 9:11am PDT
WNU #949: Lula Visits Haiti, Protests Banned On May 28 a group of 73 Brazilian social organizations--including Jubilee South, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), the Brazilian section of Vía Campesina (Campesino Way), unions and student and church groups--issued a "manifesto against the military occupation of Haiti by MINUSTAH."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 9:39pm PDT
Debunking the food crisis After decades of liberalization and globalization which was supposed to bring prosperity for the majority, how is it that the vast majority of people are impoverished? Unless more attention is paid to local production, the global food crisis will linger,perhaps indefinitely. We don't need more globalization but less of it....
Posted: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 1:43am PDT
RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Cultural Festival Arts & Cultural Festival collectively celebrating the richness and vibrancy of Haiti and Haitian Vodou...
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 4:43pm PDT
Victory for Raboteau Massacre Victims in Haiti On May 16, victims of the infamous 1994 Raboteau Massacre in Haiti received over $400,000 in court-awarded damages. The historic recovery is the result of a 14-year struggle fought by the victims and their families in the courts of Haiti and the United States....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 3:07pm PDT
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