6/11/07

Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them
International Herald Tribune – France
AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Residents of a notorious Haitian slum lashed out at local authorities Monday for abandoning them in the recovery from
Tropical …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/06/
news/CB-GEN-Haiti-After-the-Storm.php

HIV Origins: Virus Arrived in United States from Haiti in 1969
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
It came from Haiti, researchers say. Michael Worobey, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at The University of Arizona in Tucson, …
www.associatedcontent.com/article/438380/
hiv_origins_virus_arrived_in_united.html

Haiti Action Committee: Building Democracy From The Grassroots
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
This summer, members of the Haiti Action Committee, along with Dr. Akinyele Umoja of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, traveled to Haiti. …
www.haitiaction.net/Events/11_10_7.html

Troops facing charges back from Haiti
Daily Mirror (subscription) – Sri Lanka
By Sunil Jayasiri Some 110 Sri Lankan soldiers, accused of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of minors in Haiti, were sent back to Sri Lanka yesterday …
www.dailymirror.lk/2007/11/06/front/05.asp

5/11/07

Haiti Forum in Miami promotes Unity
By jubileeusa
Proclaiming Jubilee, a forum on overcoming the history of debt injustice in Haiti and Africa, was held in Miami on October 29. It was a great example of how public education on Debt Cancellation for impoverished countries is reaching …
jubileeusa.typepad.com/blog_the_debt/2007/11/haiti-forum-in-.html

HIV strain ‘came from Haiti’
By Ed.(Ed.)
The strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the United States and Europe has been traced back to Haiti by an international team of scientists. Find out more here.
lgbthmuk.blogspot.com/2007/11/hiv-strain-came-from-haiti.html

Scientists say HIV arrived from Haiti a decade before detection
HeraldNet – Everett,WA,USA
The researchers used specimens from 19 countries, including the United States, Canada, Haiti and several in Europe, Latin America and parts of Asia, …
www.heraldnet.com/article/20071105/NEWS02/711060003

Haiti still struggling after Canada-backed coup
McGill Daily – Montreal,Quebec,Canada
By David Koch Haiti is in shambles and Canada is implicated, according to findings from a human rights delegation. Roger Annis, a leading member of Haiti …
www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6607

LETTER: The Verdict makes unfair value judgment of Haiti
InsideVandy – Nashville,TN,USA
Last week The Hustler offered a one-liner concerning the recent find that HIV first entered the United States through Haiti in the late 1960s. … www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/5541

Following the genetic footprints of the virus
Boston Globe – United States
A new study traces the first movements of a common strain of the HIV virus, suggesting that the virus likely used Haiti as a stepping stone between its …
www.boston.com/yourlife/health/articles/2007/
11/05/following_the_genetic_footprints_of_the_virus

More on the AIDS and Haiti
“Associations between Haitians and infectious disease are currently particularly strong in the U.S. popular press. This, too, is nothing new. Writing in 1920, National Geographic journalists noted that “it is estimated that 87 percent of the entire population were infected with contagious diseases.” AIDS is merely the most recent in a long series of plagues attributed to Haiti. In the sixteenth century, Europeans insisted that syphilis originated n Haiti, and was brought back by Columbus’ sailors. (the converse now appears to have been the case.)”Excerpted from: The Uses of Haiti (1994, updated 2005) —by Paul Farmer
www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed.html#farmer

See. HLLN Recommended Links on the Origins of Aids/HIV www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed1.html#origin

or this:

Empire State Medical Association Denounces Incomplete Research Claims made by Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Worobey on HIV Coming from Haiti?
www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed1.html#esma

or this

“Does the scientific “theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.” (Aids and Accusations: Haiti and the Geography www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/2728001.html of blame by Paul Farmer.)

4/11/07

Inquiry into Haiti UN sex claims
By example@example.com (BBC)
Published: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:33:58 GMT Sri Lanka promises to investigate allegations that 108 of its UN peacekeepers in Haiti paid for sex. Read More…
www.theenvironmentroom.com/world-
news/89899-inquiry-into-haiti-un-sex-claims.html

Sri Lankan peacekeepers recalled from Haiti after sex abuse claims
Colombo.- Embarrassed over revelations of alleged misconduct and.
www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=25954

The warmth to come
Jamaica Observer – Kingston,Jamaica
Nothing better exemplifies the need for real democracy than the disaster
attending Hurricane Noel in Haiti. The Americans kidnapped the president of
Haiti …
www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20071103T
130000-0500_129001_OBS_THE_WARMTH_TO_COME_.asp

Desperation as rains pound Haiti
4Music News – London,UK
Heavy rains continued to pound Haiti, leaving United Nations and Haitian
officials temporarily stranded as they toured Haiti’s flooded southern
peninsula. …
www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/
desperation+as+rains+pound+haiti/1001247

Part of Sri Lankan contingent in Haiti to be sent back
Hindu – Chennai,India
“Following receipt of the preliminary report of the office of Internal
Oversight Services (OIOS) in Haiti and consultations received from Sri
Lankan …
www.hindu.com/2007/11/04/stories/2007110457201800.htm

Haiti’s Hopes for Biofuels Rest on Jatropha Plant
By Saxon
Haiti is looking to a small shrub called jatropha to fuel an alternative energy boom that may help cut the impoverished country’s reliance on oil and charcoal.
www.worldofrenewables.com/index.php?do=viewarticle&artid=745

3/11/07

Haiti: Over 100 Sri Lankan Blue Helmets Sent Home
The United Nations today announced that it will repatriate more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on disciplinary grounds.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0711/S00113.htm
Scoop NZ – World
www.scoop.co.nz/

Exposing CIDA’s support for Haiti’s 2004 coup
By macdonald
CIDA funded numerous groups in Haiti that aided and abetted the 2004 overthrow of that country’s democratically-elected government and then backed the vicious, coup-installed dictatorship that reigned for the next two years. read more.
mostlywater.org/exposing_cidas_support_for_haitis_2004_coup
Mostly Water – “Canadian” and…
mostlywater.org

Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti accused
3 (UPI) — The United Nations will repatriate 108 Sri Lankan peacekeeping soldiers in Haiti, who are accused of sexual abuse of women and minor girls. The soldiers, part of a of 950-member Sri Lankan battalion in Haiti, were to be sent …
www.daylife.com/story/0d3Ccfp6opaim

Haiti: Origin of AIDS – Haiti Action Responds
US Report on the spread of HIV/AIDS claims one Haitian immigrant in 1969 is the cause of the spread of AIDS in the US.Leslie Fleming responds on behalf of Haiti Action….
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/diaspora/44152

Early Arrival: HIV came from Haiti to United States
Science News – USA
The virus came from Haiti, which served as a Western Hemisphere toehold for the early stages of the epidemic starting in the mid-1960s, according to the …
www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071103/fob1.asp

Haiti’s Hopes for Biofuels Rest on Jatropha Plant
Voice of America – USA
By Brian Wagner Haiti is looking to a small shrub called jatropha to fuel an alternative energy boom that may help cut the impoverished country’s reliance …
www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-02-voa47.cfm

Haiti, France: Creole Language Catholic Mass in Marseilles
Global Voices Online – Cambridge,MA,USA
by Alice Backer Collectif Haiti de Provence reports (Kr) on a Creole
language mass that took place last Sunday in Marseilles, France for the
Haitian …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/01/31/haiti-
france-creole-language-catholic-mass-in-marseilles/

108 Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti to be repatriated after …
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria
AP UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The United Nations ordered 108 Sri Lankan soldiers
serving as peacekeepers in Haiti to return home Saturday after a
preliminary …
www.pr-inside.com/sri-lankan-peacekeepers-in-haiti-r281332.htm

2/11/07

Haiti – Death threats against head of panel set up to help …
Joseph Guyler Delva, a news programme host on Radio Mélodie FM and the correspondent of several foreign news media, has been getting death threats on his mobile phone since 25 October. Delva heads a an independent commission that was …
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24228

Haiti on verge of political crisis
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) — Haiti hangs on the verge of political crisis amid concerns over President Rene Preval’s credibility and constitutional reforms.
www.arcamax.com/newsheadlines/s-252430-996098?source=1930

Haiti defamed
Jamaica Gleaner – Kingston,Jamaica
Pure defamation is the only way to describe the article titled ‘Haiti was the launching pad for HIV into the US’. Conscientious and Afrocentric Haitians …
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071102/letters/letters5.html

HAITI: HIV masked by the smokescreen of insecurity
Plus News – South Africa
PORT-AU-PRINCE , 2 November 2007 (PlusNews) – Police officers struggling to
keep a lid on Haiti’s violent crime can find it difficult to accept that
HIV …
www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75112

From no-go areas to ‘Disneyland’: Haiti emerges from a nightmare
Guardian Unlimited – UK
During the worst of the excesses, with Haiti still recovering from violent uprising, Cité Soleil was off limits to outsiders, even to the authorities. …
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2203834,00.html

Haiti/Aids accusation : Another hurricane
AlterPresse-Haïti – Port-au-Prince,Haiti
Implicating Africa, Haiti and its people (again) as the vectors of the AIDS virus with such certainty seems to overlook the intrinsic unstable—mutation …
www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article6581

1/11/07

Disappearing Democracy in Haiti
Guerrilla News Network – USA
Yet despite this, the resistance shown by Haitian civil society against the return of paramilitaries and foreign intervention has demonstrated that Haiti …
www.gnn.tv/articles/3371/Disappearing_Democracy_in_Haiti

HAITI: Treatment centre reports rising sexual violence and HIV
Plus News – South Africa
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 1 November 2007 (PlusNews) – Apart from HIV, sexual violence against women in Haiti is another virus that has so far proved resistant to a …
www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75091

AN UNBROKEN AGONY: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a …
Randall Robinson Basic Civitas ISBN 978-0465070503 280 pages $26. Reviewed by Theola Labbe, a Washington Post Metro reporter of Haitian descent. Randall Robinson, the founder of.
www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-248665-320641?source=1930

Political turbulence stirring again in Haiti
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
A proposal to overhaul Haiti’s 20-year-old constitution and election delays are upsetting the country. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES The turbulence, slowly building …
www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/291468.html

Analysis: Brazil, Haiti bond over biofuels
Earthtimes – London,UK
MIAMI, Oct. 31 Brazilian and Haitian investors appear keen to jump-start Haiti’s efforts to produce alternative biofuels as a substitute for charcoal, …
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/133945.html

Brazil minister wants more peacekeepers for Haiti
Reuters – USA
BRASILIA, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Brazil should send more troops to the UN peacekeeping mission that it leads in Haiti to help with the country’s reconstruction, …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN31462266

One Lavalas official freed in Haiti, second remains missing
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
Port au Prince, Haiti – HIP — An official with ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas political movement was released this morning after being …
www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/10_31_7/10_31_7.html

HAITI INFORMATION PROJECT: “One Lavalas official freed in Haiti …
By hcvanalysis
HIP — An official with ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas political movement was released this morning after being held for three days by unknown captors. Dr. Maryse Narcisse was taken at gunpoint on Saturday from in …
hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/haiti-us-human-rights/