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On 12 January 2010 a powerful earthquake devastated the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The buildings were often badly made, with poor quality cement. About 250,000 people were killed (one person in ten) and hundreds of thousands were injured or missing. Since then, (...)
Haiti had yet to recover from decades of natural and not-at-all-natural disasters when Hurricane Matthew struck. Edna Bonhomme provides the background.
With winds reaching 145 miles an hour, the storm wrecked homes, communities and lives, particularly along Haiti’s southwestern coast. (...)
Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, Jesse Hagopian calls on the world to remember the country’s suffering, in an article published at Truthout .
Why have you come to save me? Why have you come to save me? You, Americans, have saved me Who will save me now? Popular song during (...)
The wire fence that surrounds Haiti’s National Palace in the heart of the country’s capital has been covered, recently, with a green mesh. Inside, the multi-domed structure has been reduced to rubble, finally knocked down after it was all but destroyed by the country’s deadly 7.0-magnitude (...)
The plight of some 400,000 Haitians still living under tarps and tents since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake has surged into the streets and headlines in recent weeks, highlighting one of Haiti’s most explosive and intractable issues. A new grassroots campaign, an international petition, several (...)
As 2012 begins, a growing movement of displaced people and their allies in Haiti is actively claiming the right to housing, which is recognized by both the Haitian constitution and international treaties to which Haiti is signatory.
Haitians displaced by the earthquake two years ago face many (...)
Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded.
The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake (about $155 per (...)
There is not enough anger for my anger, there is not enough grief for my grief.
As the two-year anniversary of the earthquake approaches, I am finding myself with a case of insomnia. Here I am, enjoying the perfect Haitian winter, lying awake with my head filled with thoughts I can’t escape. (...)
Agence haitienne de presse reports on Dec 28 that a protest march to take place on January 11, 2012 has been called by 12 organizations to demand land and housing rights in Haiti. The march will take place in Port au Prince and finish in front of the national Parliament. The organizations that (...)
Protest March on January 11, 2012 Will Demand Action on Land for Peasants and Housing for Earthquake Victims.
Agence haitienne de presse reports on Dec 28 that a protest march to take place on January 11, 2012 has been called by 12 organizations to demand land and housing rights in Haiti. The (...)
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In this Jan. 12 we remember a year of the tragic earthquake that devastated Haiti, the first country to proclaim its independence in Latin America. Faced with the disaster and the humanitarian problems caused by the earthquake all we have saw was a military response. (...)
On July 12, six months to the day after January’s earthquake, the Haitian government held a ceremony behind the crumbled National Palace.
Before assembled dignitaries from embassies, NGOs, and Haiti’s elite, President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive draped medals of honor on (...)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Ruth Derilus had seen her share of tragedy. A 33-year-old iron-willed social worker trained by Haiti’s Papay Peasant Movement, she twice helped organize relief efforts when massive floods devastated the city of Gonaïves and the surrounding countryside. In September 2004 she (...)
Motion adopted by the Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International.
The earthquake that took place in Haiti on 12 January 2010 affected the entire country but hit the capital city Port au Prince and the neighbouring region especially hard. The human and material damage has been (...)
[To add your organisation’s support, email: Ign Mahendra K at international prp-indonesia.org.]
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January 27, 2010 — On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 Richter scale earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake caused great destruction and (...)
Port-au-Prince, 27th January 2010 - Statement by the coordinating committee of progressive organisations (see the list of the participating platforms and individual organizations at the foot of the text).
To all our partners
On January 12th 2010 an earthquake of unprecedented force struck (...)
Comrades, friends,
Given the news coming from Haiti, our concern continues to grow for the needs of the people there and the militarization of the humanitarian responses.
As Jubilee South, we believe that our help must be both immediate and continuing over the medium term. We need to act in (...)
To withhold aid because of the ’security situation’ is a miserable excuse for agencies’ failure to deliver desperately needed help.
As a member of the media covering the tragedy in Haiti, it’s with a sense of alarm and astonishment that I’ve witnessed how some senior aid officials have argued for (...)
On January 13 Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake that is feared to have killed 2 lakh people, rendered over 3 lakh homeless and devastated the country. Aid has been late to arrive and has only now begun to trickle in. Despair, hunger, disease and desperate rioting stalk Haiti in the wake of (...)
There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter (...)
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