• As of February 2023, Haiti has no remaining elected government officials and has been described as a failed state. (wikipedia.org)
  • I've written about Haiti for a long time now, and thought about it for a long time, and whenever I get blue, or stuck, or think I'm over it, Laurent Dubois, newer to the scene than I and far more erudite, publishes a new book on Haitian history. (thedailybeast.com)
  • One of the great novels to come out of Haiti in the 1940s, The Beast tells the story of Morin Dutilleul, a light-skinned Haitian shopkeeper who decides to move back to "the land" and become a farmer after his wife dies in childbirth. (thedailybeast.com)
  • After the earthquake of 12 January 2010, that marked a painful turning point in the history of the Haitian people, the Republic of Haiti has experienced a succession of crises due to both natural and man-made disasters. (ei-ie.org)
  • Citizens take part in a protest in Petion Ville, Haiti, after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on July 8, 2021. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On November 16, the Inter-American Commission issued a statement calling upon the United States 'to suspend deportations to Haiti of persons of Haitian origin who have are seriously ill or who have family members in the United States, especially when those family members are children and those at risk of deportation were the family's primary breadwinners. (lexisnexis.com)
  • The Commission found that the 'information presented to the Inter-American Commission indicates that the individuals who were deported allegedly do not have access to adequate medical care in Haiti, and the satisfaction of other basic needs is further affected by the weak structure of the Haitian State following the 2010 earthquake. (lexisnexis.com)
  • However, ICE's April 2011 Policy on Resumed Removals to Haiti, which provides that the agency will weigh humanitarian factors in determining whether to deport individual Haitian nationals, remains in effect. (lexisnexis.com)
  • Three days later the US special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest of an ongoing large-scale, forced repatriation of Haitian migrants to a homeland wrecked by civil strife and natural disaster. (ipsnews.net)
  • I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs to daily life. (ipsnews.net)
  • There have been Haitian "boat people" many times before, fleeing political repression or economic destitution or both, and the U.S. government spared no expense to round them up, hold them in prison facilities and send them back to Haiti. (greenleft.org.au)
  • For Haitians hoping to flee the current disaster, however, Napolitano explicitly ruled out a welcome in the U.S. "At this moment of tragedy in Haiti," she lectured, "it is tempting for people suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake to seek refuge elsewhere, but attempting to leave Haiti now will only bring more hardship to the Haitian people and nation. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The continued portrayal of Haiti as the basket case of the hemisphere without accurate contextualization further wounds the Haitian people and misleads the American public. (thenation.com)
  • Bonaparte sought to restore slavery and use Haiti as a launching pad for an invasion of the United States, sending some 50,000 troops to Haiti, where they were decimated by the Haitian forces and yellow fever. (thenation.com)
  • FILE - Haitian vigilante gunmen patrol their neighborhood in the Cite de Dieu (City of God) slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 25, 2005. (voanews.com)
  • Taken together, the material presented in Haiti, History, and the Gods not only restores a lost chapter of Haitian history but suggests necessary revisions to the accepted histories of the New World. (google.com)
  • A variety of internal and external pressures complicated government in Saint Domingue and Haiti. (brown.edu)
  • Formerly Saint Domingue, one of the most profitable colonies in the world, Haiti was 'born in ruins' after a 13-year civil war against the French colonial masters. (newint.org)
  • The French colony of Saint-Domingue achieved its independence and became Haiti in 1804 after a brutal twelve-year struggle that began with an uprising of enslaved peoples led by Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe, who together defeated the French royalist and revolutionary armies, the Spanish and British imperial armies who tried to take advantage and finally Napoleon Bonaparte. (thenation.com)
  • In examining the complex social fabric of French Saint-Domingue, which in 1804 became Haiti, Dayan uncovers a silenced, submerged past. (google.com)
  • On October 20, 2010, the first outbreak of cholera ever confirmed in Haiti was recognized 10 months after the catastrophic earthquake that killed over 200,000 people and displaced over 1 million. (cdc.gov)
  • An outbreak of cholera was confirmed in Haiti on October 21, 2010. (cdc.gov)
  • Duvalier's surprise return to Haiti aggravates the woes of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country as it struggles to recover from the devastating earthquake of January 2010 amid an ongoing cholera epidemic and political turmoil arising from last fall's flawed presidential election. (ticotimes.net)
  • Meeting cholera's challenge to Haiti and the world: a joint statement on cholera prevention and care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cholera had not been documented in Haiti for decades so cholera outbreaks were considered unlikely in Haiti immediately following the earthquake in January, 2010. (cdc.gov)
  • In Haiti in 2011, pregnant women with clinical signs of cholera who sought treatment from Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, in Port- au-Prince, were sent to a general cholera treatment center, or CTC. (cdc.gov)
  • The proportion of fetal deaths was higher than that previously recorded in Haiti but close to that of the 2006 Senegal cholera outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • As attention turns from search and rescue to rebuilding Haiti, experts say that the billions of dollars in aid may be wasted unless money is invested in long-term projects. (npr.org)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Haiti. (who.int)
  • Hunger tightens its grip on vulnerable Haitians as insecurity, violence and deepening economic woes are driving a complex emergency in Haiti. (wfp.org)
  • (CNN) -- The return to Haiti this week of Jean-Claude Duvalier, the scion of a family dictatorship that misruled that Caribbean nation for 29 years, is a sharp reminder of how impunity remains a significant stumbling block as Haitians try to construct a more just and equitable society. (cnn.com)
  • Haiti was already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere before the earthquake, when more than 70 percent of Haitians lived below the international poverty line, surviving on less than $2.00 each day, and one in three Haitians lacked access to safe, drinkable municipal water. (redcross.org)
  • Jefferson expressed his gratitude to the Haitians by assisting in the French blockade intended to punish Haiti. (thenation.com)
  • But that could be a problem, says Gerald Murray, an anthropologist at the University of Florida who has worked in Haiti for three decades, advising international banks and organizations on aid projects. (npr.org)
  • In Haiti, where Aids, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, children are malnourished and hygiene is already a challenge, the quake has added potentially lethal infections, broken bones, internal injuries and other health complications. (commondreams.org)
  • After 36 hours of desperate and unanswered calls to Port au Prince, 31-year-old David Pierre-Louis left the safety of Seattle for quake ravaged Haiti in hopes of finding his family. (cbsnews.com)
  • Haiti is reeling from the 7 July assassination of its president, facing an escalation in gang violence, while some 4.4 million people, or nearly 46 per cent of its population suffer acute food insecurity. (ipsnews.net)
  • The Assassination of The President of Haiti Jovenal Moise and What's Next For Haiti? (undispatch.com)
  • click here for informative answers to your most frequently asked questions about Food For The Poor's Haiti earthquake relief efforts. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • The outbreak of the French Revolution exacerbated latent tensions over all of these matters, and they were not resolved until Haiti declared its independence and created its own legislation. (brown.edu)
  • Pope Francis told an audience of Haiti earthquake survivors and relief agencies that restoration is only possible when communities unite. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The spread of disease has become a major concern in Haiti , medical experts said today, as relief groups struggled to speed up the delivery of supplies to hungry and thirsty earthquake survivors. (commondreams.org)
  • With its deteriorating economic situation, as well as recent calls by the IMF to cut fuel subsidies, Haiti has been experiencing a socioeconomic and political crisis marked by riots and protests, widespread hunger, and increased gang activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • E-mails from the State Department to U.S. citizens in Haiti warn that protests "can arise and escalate quickly, and even turn violent. (counterpunch.org)
  • Haiti recognized Dominican independence in 1867, following their declaration in 1844. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Aftershocks , a sequel to his equally panoramic Avengers of the New World (which begins with the colony and takes us to independence from France), Dubois continues his exploration and explanation of Haiti, through the U.S. marine occupation of the country (1915 -1934) up to the regime of the weird and brutal François "Papa Doc" Duvalier in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Haiti under the visionary Toussaint Louverture sought to realize the ideals of the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man for all men-unlike their authors. (thenation.com)
  • Haiti contributed massively to liberation struggles elsewhere, perhaps most significantly in Venezuela, assisting Simón Bolívar twice in his quest to achieve independence from Spain. (thenation.com)
  • After the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, the hospital and the Massachusetts-based St. Boniface Haiti Foundation established the country's first spinal cord injury treatment center. (cio.com)
  • Vigilante attacks in Haiti have long been seen as a response over a dysfunctional justice system that all but ignores those living outside the crowded capital of Port-au-Prince. (voanews.com)
  • A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12. (cdc.gov)
  • AIDS and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame / Paul Farmer. (who.int)
  • Humanitarian needs are rising sharply in Haiti. (wfp.org)
  • Facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, Haiti is on the brink of state failure. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Taking into account that Haiti was already facing a humanitarian crisis before the earthquake, we point out a possible paradoxical impact of the disaster on the population, with negative effects on security and family ties and favorable effects on the survival conditions of the most miserable segment of the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Under their rule, Haiti became a byword for repression, but a convenient source of cheap labour for US offshore manufacturers. (newint.org)
  • Education International is pleased to report that it has received letters from member organisations in Haiti informing it that the repression against union leaders has been lifted, following a strong show of solidarity from education unions around the world. (ei-ie.org)
  • With President Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly and members of the opposition proving unable to organize parliamentary elections, the political gridlock that has been plaguing Haiti for over three years has turned into a full-fledged crisis as the country's legislature has dissolved - leaving a de facto dictator in charge. (counterpunch.org)
  • What Does PDVSA Have to Do with the Crisis in Haiti? (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Haiti is 27,750 km2 (10,714 sq mi) in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribbean. (wikipedia.org)
  • Haiti is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Association of Caribbean States, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Haiti was the first independent Caribbean state, it has suffered chronic instability due to natural disasters, political turmoil and an economy that is highly dependent on external economic conditions. (abtassociates.com)
  • Three years after the island nation of Haiti was rocked by a devastating earthquake, efforts to rebuild the local Church. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti, have urged a halt to all deportations to post-earthquake Haiti. (lexisnexis.com)
  • In reality, they are a threat--aimed at enforcing the U.S. government's stay-out policy toward refugees from Haiti. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Historically poor and politically unstable, Haiti has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas, as well as widespread slavery. (wikipedia.org)
  • The international community, which historically has contemplated Haiti through a lens distorted by racism and disinterest, is not doing much to mitigate a worsening situation, triggering immigration movements towards countries like the US, which government apparently assume that a solution to the problem will be to send migrants back to their misery. (ipsnews.net)
  • Four years after a desolating earthquake affected millions in Haiti, Catholic Relief Services continues to help the nation move from. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • By Edward Nawotka The publishing industry has certainly done its part to help Haiti, donating half a million dollars to relief agencies in the days following the disaster, there have been charity books, and more. (publishingperspectives.com)
  • Haiti has one of the highest levels of food insecurity in the world . (wfp.org)
  • A lot of people agree that the upcoming elections in Haiti-the first since Aristide and his government were expelled in the February 29, 2004 coup d'état-are important. (counterpunch.org)
  • Haiti is about to experience its first biometric elections. (counterpunch.org)
  • But Haiti has failed the first fundamental test in holding credible elections - certifying candidates, and affording each due process under the law, equally and without discrimination. (csmonitor.com)
  • On June 10, 2010 Senator Lugar authored a report entitled, "Haiti - No Leadership, No Elections. (csmonitor.com)
  • Exhibit A: Haiti, whose government was recently forced to come to grips with a deep and expanding scope of governmental corruption. (csis.org)
  • A network of corruption permeates all sectors of public governance, the magnitude of which is confirmed by Transparency International's 2018 Index ranking Haiti as the second most corrupt country in the hemisphere after Venezuela. (csis.org)
  • Former UN mission chief Edmond Mulet told UN staff that their continuing work for Haiti was the best memorial to colleagues who died. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In a transmittal note to his Senate colleagues he cautioned that, "the positive effect of assistance programs will be limited if Haiti lacks a responsible, popularly elected government. (csmonitor.com)
  • Seven years since Haiti was devastated by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, poorest nation in the West still hasn't recovered. (huffpost.com)
  • Each of the novellas could have been written about Papa Doc's regime, and indeed, Chauvet was forced herself to flee from Duvalier's Haiti, turning up in Queens, where she died in 1973. (thedailybeast.com)
  • U.S. military officials claim they haven't stopped any vessels fleeing Haiti. (greenleft.org.au)
  • In line with the ILO Haiti 2015-2020 Decent Work Country Programme, the components consisted of complementary activities which combined together to offer a pathway to re-establish livelihoods and regain self-reliance with particular attention to youth contributing to rural development, in addition to good local governance. (ilo.org)
  • The longtime devotee of Haiti and the author of the new book Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti , picks the essential reads about the colorful and troubled country. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir , taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to its triumphs, from the tiny bouks of the countryside to the shanties of the sprawling bidonvilles . (thedailybeast.com)
  • In the interim, concerned by increasing German interests in Haiti, and fears that it might occupy the Panama Canal, the United States invaded and occupied the country from 1915-1934. (thenation.com)
  • Select Haiti as the destination country. (westernunion.com)
  • You will need your receiver's personal information, including their full name as it appears on their government-issued ID and the country code for Haiti, which is 509. (westernunion.com)
  • The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti devastated an already extremely impoverished region of the island. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Frustratingly for the people of Haiti, far from being supported in their calls for justice, the abuses they have experienced have more often than not become a political football among international actors. (cnn.com)
  • CNN's Isa Soares speaks with U.N. Independent Expert on Human Rights in Haiti William O'Neill as the Bahamas commits 150 people to combat rising gang violence in Haiti. (cnn.com)
  • Dr. William O'Neill, dean of the medical school at the University of Miami--which set up a field hospital in Haiti near the airport--said that the State Department had denied visas to many seriously injured people to be transported to Miami for surgery and treatment. (greenleft.org.au)
  • We conclude that a study on quality of life in Haiti should consider the specific features of the region and its socioeconomic conditions, as well as the cultural features of the population, given that resilience and religiosity strongly affect the way people face the setbacks of life. (bvsalud.org)
  • At COP15, in Denmark in 2009, China sent 233 delegates, compared to Haiti which sent seven, and Chad which sent three people respectively. (lu.se)
  • Nicole Phillips, a human rights lawyer with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, said lynchings and other crimes will continue to go unsolved until the government prioritizes improvements to the justice system. (voanews.com)
  • After 1986, Haiti began attempting to establish a more democratic political system. (wikipedia.org)
  • PEN International and Unesco have launched new research and training programs in Kenya, Haiti, Serbia and Nigeria to bolster local book publishing industries. (publishingperspectives.com)
  • Following the tropical storm in the northeast region of Haiti in 2004, the ILO, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) worked closely with the Government of Haiti within the framework of a job creation programme in Gonaives. (ilo.org)
  • Michael Deibert is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University and the author of 'Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti' (Seven Stories Press). (cnn.com)
  • Haiti faces ecological disaster, as irreversible erosion follows deforestation caused by the need for firewood and charcoal. (newint.org)
  • The disaster in Haiti reminds us that our choices can make natural calamities worse - or better. (thehoya.com)
  • Watch a recording here of the Haiti earthquake briefing with President/CEO Ed Raine and members of the Food For The Poor Disaster Response Team. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • The World Food Programme (WFP) has been in Haiti since 1969. (wfp.org)
  • Even after achieving nationhood, Haiti found it difficult to enter into normal relations with other governments, because of racial prejudice, severe indemnities, and other international pressures. (brown.edu)
  • For even more convenient ways to send money to Haiti, download the Western Union ® app - this quick and easy process takes just a few taps. (westernunion.com)
  • Vigilante justice accounts for 11 percent of killings in Haiti, where homicide rates have long been far below the rates of many other countries in the hemisphere. (voanews.com)
  • Having conducted workshops in Haiti for authors, the literacy charity Nabu is releasing the two of a planned series of bilingual books for girls of color. (publishingperspectives.com)
  • Officials from the Department of Homeland Security told reporters that they transferred 200 undocumented immigrants from the Krome Service Processing Center--the federal immigration jail in Miami--to make room for a possible influx from Haiti. (greenleft.org.au)
  • This article analyzes the quality of life in Haiti after the earthquake, based on the domains of the World Health Organization Quality Of Life assessment instrument (WHOQOL 100). (bvsalud.org)
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  • Bill Clinton, the former US president and UN special envoy to Haiti, pitched into the aid effort by unloading bottles of water from a plane and touring a hospital where supplies were tight. (commondreams.org)
  • Members of the international community who supported the coup agree: Canada's special advisor to Haiti, Denis Coderre, has called them "a crossroads," and "a historical turning point. (counterpunch.org)
  • Schedule your money transfer to Haiti in advance and never miss a special occasion or important bill payment. (westernunion.com)
  • In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. (google.com)
  • Three long years of paramilitary terror followed before Aristide was returned by a U.S.-led military mission to Haiti in 1994. (cnn.com)
  • Five years after the island of Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, three young amputees will have the opportunity. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The connection between Haiti and Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth began several years ago, when CEO Jonathan Bush began donating to St. Boniface Hospital in rural southern Haiti, where running water and electricity are scarce. (cio.com)
  • But stoning, machete attacks and decapitations are reported by witnesses and AP journalists in Haiti who have gone to the scenes of numerous lynchings over the years. (voanews.com)
  • Her scholarship is enriched by the insights she has gleaned from conversations and experiences during her many trips to Haiti over the past twenty years. (google.com)
  • Duvalier, who left the office accompanied by police officers but without wearing handcuffs, was apparently planning to return to the capital's Hotel Karibe, where he has been staying since his unexpected return to Haiti last week following 25 years of exile in France. (ticotimes.net)