30/11/07
Abductions and killings of children in Haiti denounced by UNICEF
UN News Centre –
30 November 2007 – Condemning a recent spate of kidnappings and
assassinations carried out against children in Haiti, the United Nations
Children’s Fund …
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?
NewsID=24870&Cr=haiti&Cr1=children
UNICEF condemns violent attacks on children in Haiti
UNICEF (press release) – New York,NY,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 30 November 2007 – UNICEF is alarmed by reports of an
increasing number of violent attacks on child in Haiti in October and
November 2007. …
www.unicef.org/media/media_41992.html
Wyclef Jean returning to his roots
Dallas Morning News – Dallas,TX,USA
When he’s not performing or opining about topical issues, Mr. Jean serves
as an unofficial roving ambassador for Haiti, where he spent his early
years, …
www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/
stories/DN-wyclef_1201gl.State.Edition1.109abff.html
Nation building in Haiti
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Rather, he’s a fellow convict, given some authority by prison officers to
help them do their work in Haiti’s intensely short-staffed prisons. …
www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=135112
Photo exhibit focuses on Havana and Haiti
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
… the work of seven nationally recognized award-winning photographers in
the exhibit Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, on Saturday,
Dec. …
www.miamiherald.com/494/story/326803.html
Haiti: The Canadian-Backed Coup Regime’s Reign Of Terror
By Jeremiah
Richard Sanders GLOBAL RESEARCH Fuelling the deadly flames of human rights abuses that ravaged Haiti’s pro-democracy advocates after the 2004 coup, was an organization that received generous financing from the Canadian government. …
thefilter.ca/articles/canada/haiti-the-
canadian-backed-coup-regimes-reign-of-terror/
Haiti gets help from Delaware
General discusion about Haiti.
www.haitixchange.com/hx/forum/display_topic_thre
ads.asp?ForumID=1&TopicID=5104&PagePosition=1
Good Deed or Are We Trying to Infect Haiti?
By liberalgeek
Delaware is exporting firewood to Haiti in an effort to stem deforestation in the Caribbean nation. Sound like a good deed, eh? Here’s the problem: most states on the east coast have started to put some strict limits on firewood …
delawareliberal.wordpress.com/2007/11/
29/good-deed-or-are-we-trying-to-infect-haiti/
Success breeds its own problems for Canadian-led Haitian police
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – His hand grasping a wad of banknotes, the
red-shirted “major” barks at prisoners whose families have just brought
them food. …
www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id
=a375f882-cbea-4cc9-8c60-78cd7ad23019&k=20071
Haiti’s Workers Battle Hanes’ Firings
By challengenewspaper
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Since last May, 500 fired garment workers have been fighting against a Hanes Brand (HBI) contractor, CD Apparel, in an industrial park here. CD Apparel, owned by Haitian boss Frantz Pilorge, blames the firings on …
challengenewspaper.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/haiti%E
2%80%99s-workers-battle-hanes%E2%80%99-firings/
Delaware firewood helps Haiti reforest
By postaphis
Haiti has begun importing unprocessed wood directly from Delaware because extreme deforestation has eliminated 95 percent of its trees. Channel: Do No Evil Tags: Haiti deforestation Delaware wood.
donoevil.propeller.com/story/2007/11/29
/delaware-firewood-helps-haiti-reforest
Activists stand up for rights (for all)
Latin America Press – Lima,Peru
Anti-Haitian prejudice and resentment toward continued immigration from
Haiti is common. Members of the Haitian community complain that they are
…
www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5417
Cold indifference to loss of life
Latin America Press – Lima,Peru
This group of seven tiny islands, located off the southern end of the
Bahamas chain and just 90 miles north of Haiti, is a British territory,
with limited …
www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5418
Commentary: Haiti notebook
Caribbean Net News – Georgetown,Cayman Islands
By Jean H Charles Globalisation has arrived in Haiti with a vengeance. At
each corner, one can find an internet café which is a mixture of internet
…
www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-4748—6-6—.html
Haiti: Reforestation
By Janine Mendes-Franco
Haiti Innovation says that “Haiti is not even in the game when it comes to preserving the environment.”
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/29/haiti-reforestation/
Global Voices Online
www.globalvoicesonline.org
Haiti Stands Up to HIV
Dr. Jean “Bill” Pape, founder of the first Haitian clinic to investigate the Caribbean AIDS epidemic, is seeing infection rates drop thanks to pro-condom campaigns, increased HIV-screening, and safer blood banks. From: Heroes of HIV.
us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81477
29/11/07
Solidarity with Haiti and the SF 8
San Francisco Bay View – San Francisco,CA,USA
10, at the Berkeley Unitarian Universalists Hall, the Haiti Action
Committee and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement hosted a program of
solidarity with Haiti …
www.sfbayview.com/20071128639/News/
This_week/Solidarity_with_Haiti_and_the_SF_8.html
Delaware firewood helps Haiti reforest By Rachel Kaufman
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
By Rachel Kaufman Haiti has begun importing unprocessed wood directly from
Delaware because extreme deforestation has eliminated 95 percent of its
trees. …
washingtontimes.com/article/20071129/FOREIGN/111290044/1003
How a team of MIT students will help solve Haiti’s cooking-fuel crisis
Haitian native Jules Walter, started a company called Bagazo to sell low-cost charcoal briquettes made from plant waste to his countrymen. Bagazo is Spanish for “bagasse,” or sugar cane waste, but corncobs and banana leaves can also be …
digg.com/business_finance/How_a_team_of_MIT
_students_will_help_solve_Haiti_s_cooking_fuel_crisis
Haiti is a Taino Word
By UCTP TAINO NEWS(UCTP TAINO NEWS)
Did You Know: Haiti is one of the ancient Taino names for the island the Spaniards named Hispaniola, which is today spilt between what is now the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Other words include Ayiti, Kiskeia, and Bohio. …
taino-facts.blogspot.com/2007/11/haiti-is-taino-word.html
Earthbag building: the sun house in haiti
By admin
I am an avid reader of Kelly Hart’s blog, Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture, and recently he started a separate site called Earthbag Building which I am hugely interested in (as some of you may have noticed already ). …
livemodern.com/designblogs/16f351fd933b783022f4bd35b7248de6
Commissioner investigating journalists’ murders returns to haiti
Caribbean Net News – Georgetown,Cayman Islands
… first to the dominican republic and from there to florida. he was
greeted on his return to haiti by claudy gassant, public prosecutor in
port-au-prince, …
www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-4737—2-2—.html
haiti: boy killed over $680 ransom, police say
Sun-Sentinel.com – Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
… kidnappers demanding the ransom for his release, but was unable to
raise the cash, he said. at least 16 kidnappings were reported in haiti
through nov. …
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/
sfl-flahemidig11270sbnov27,0,4867198.story
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CNNMoney.com – USA
Consider Haiti, where 700 tons of wood is burned annually, and smoke from
thousands of charcoal fires has led to widespread respiratory infections.
…
money.cnn.com/2007/11/19/smbusiness/coal.fsb/
28/11/07
Health In the Americas, 2007- Haiti
By Ti_tina
The link to the pdf file for the section on Haiti is at the top of this post. It gives a general overview of the health status in Haiti. Sections include: General context and Health Determinants, Health of Population Groups, …
haitiannewsandevents.wordpress.com/2007/
11/28/health-in-the-americas-2007-haiti/
HAITI-MEDIA-Journalist returns to Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Secretary General of the SOS Journalistes-Haiti, Guy Delva, has returned to Haiti after receiving several death threats, the regional media organisation, the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) …
www.cananews.net/news/127/ARTICLE/18558/2007-11-28.html
Lankan Soldiers in Haiti Maintained Normal Military Disciplinary …
Sri Lanka Army – Colombo,Sri Lanka
MSF INGO has made allegations against Sri Lana Peace Keeping Forces who
served in Haiti, Those allegations area against sexual abuses, As many as
98 army …
www.army.lk/morenewsfet.php?id=3010 |
