30/11/04

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6754
Come to Haiti
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
by Melinda Miles. Today is Thanksgiving Day in the States, but today in Haiti we are not thankful. We are not thankful for the brutal…

www.fox23news.com/news/world/story.aspx?content_id
=E21385B9-3834-4B65-83D0-506C1DA6D181
A package of news briefs from the Caribbean
WXXA – Albany,NY,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A crowd of Haitians marched through a slum in Haiti's capital Monday calling for peace and the return of ousted President Jean…

29/11/04

washingtontimes.com/world/20041129-114707-3914r.htm
Instability continues to wrack Haiti
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Many Haitians thought they had hit rock bottom in February, when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced from power amid an armed…

www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/international/americas/29haiti.html
Haiti's Wounds Overwhelm a Suffering Public Hospital
New York Times – New York,NY,USA
By MICHAEL KAMBER. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 28 – The State University Hospital of Haiti, the country's largest public hospital, is barely functioning.…

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10291993.htm
Anarchy reigns in streets of Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
Gangs have brought anarchy to Haiti's poorest areas. Police … again. Evidence is a scant commodity in Haiti, and justice is murky — at best.…

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/11/29/4817345
More summary killings by UN/RCMP-backed Haiti police
Infoshop News – USA
Police arrived in Rue Fort National at around 10.30 this morning, approximately twenty minutes after a rubbish truck was put on fire there by armed individuals …

www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/11/29/haiti-children-police-041129.html
Haiti's street kids fear killings by police
CBC News – Canada
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Someone has been killing street children on the streets of Haiti's capital, and the kids blame the police. United…

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10291993.htm
Anarchy reigns in streets of Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
Gangs have brought anarchy to Haiti's poorest areas. Police … again. Evidence is a scant commodity in Haiti, and justice is murky — at best. …

www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/international/americas/29haiti.html
Haiti's Wounds Overwhelm a Suffering Public Hospital
New York Times – New York,NY,USA
By MICHAEL KAMBER. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 28 – The State University Hospital of Haiti, the country's largest public hospital, is barely functioning. …

ARISTIDE supporters march through capital
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 27 (UPI) — Supporters of former Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Port-au-Prince…
washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041127-072011-8279r.htm

FAMILY: Death of man, 81, in US custody another Haitian tragedy
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States
nearly a month ago seeking asylum because gangs in his…
www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10280548.htm

27/11/04

www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10280548.htm
Family: Death of man, 81, in US custody another Haitian tragedy
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States nearly a month ago seeking asylum because gangs in his …

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3120
Haiti : Seven policemen put in solitary for alleged involvement in …
Haiti Info – Haiti
… was taken against them for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of 180,000 dollars at a hotel in Port-de-Paix, in the northwest of Haiti, on the…

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4047177.stm
Aristide faithful rally in Haiti
BBC News – London,England,UK
By Hannah Hennessy. Thousands have marched in Haiti's capital to express support for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. They …

www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11571464p-12469494c.html
After prison term, peace activist still dedicated to cause
Sacramento Bee – Sacramento,CA,USA
… Barnes, 50, intends to visit Haiti soon, but meanwhile she did make the pilgrimage last week to the annual School of the Americas Watch vigil at the gates of …

24/11/04

AMID wreckage, Caribbean cleanup continues
CNN – Atlanta,GA,USA
… “It was a very difficult situation this hurricane season, especially
in the countries of Haiti and Grenada … “The destruction [in Haiti]
was really devastating.…
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/23/hurricane.haiti/

PROMISE Keepers to Partner with Mission Agency for ''Haiti at the…
Christian Post – San Francisco,CA,USA
… PK), the international ministry to men, is partnering with New Directions
International to produce a series of prayer events and men's meetings
in Haiti.…
www.christianpost.com/dbase/missions/1254/section/1.htm

HAITIANS repatriated by Coast Guard
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
The US Coast Guard Cutter repatriated 82 Haitian migrants to Port-Au-Prince,
Haiti, Wednesday morning after they were rescued from their 30-foot white
sail…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10263842.htm

ARMED Haitians assault UN troops
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. … UN forces — led by Brazilian troops—
arrived in Haiti in June to take over for the US-led interim force.…
washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041124-044506-4993r.htm

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041124-044506-4993r.htm
Armed Haitians assault UN troops
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. … UN forces — led by Brazilian troops — arrived in Haiti in June to take over for the US-led interim force. …

www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/hait-n24.shtml
Canadian Prime Minister tries to shore up Haitian government born …
World Socialist – Oak Park,MI,USA
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin visited Haiti November 14 in a show of support for the interim government that was born of the bloody coup that ousted the …

VIOLENT crime, political deaths surge in Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
Police in Haiti say the homicide rate has nearly tripled in recent months
to nearly three people a day on average. Some of the killings…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/10250510.htm

A 'Leaf Doctor' Serving Haiti's Poor
Inter Press Service (subscription) – World
… women in her thatched hut home on the banks of the Jacmel River outside
the port city of the same name, home to 30,000 people on the southern
peninsula of Haiti…
www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=26391

KOFI Annan Urges End To Cycle Of Violence In Haiti
Hardbeatnews.com – Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
HBN, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. Nov. 23: United Nations Secretary General, Kofi
Annan, yesterday called on armed groups in Haiti to break the cycle of
violence there.…
www.hardbeatnews.com/details2614.htm

ACT Situation Report: Haiti (Gonaives)
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
… LWF-Haiti is using a network of local churches that allows it to target
beneficiaries more directly and assure the proper use of distributed items.
…
www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/110121429253.htm

HAITIAN gunmen beat up busload of off-duty UN troops
CBC News – Canada
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A group of armed men hijacked a bus carrying
11 off-duty United Nations troops from Argentina and beat them before
letting them go…
www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041123/w1123118.html

23/11/04

www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/110121429253.htm
ACT Situation Report: Haiti (Gonaives)
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
… LWF-Haiti is using a network of local churches that allows it to target beneficiaries more directly and assure the proper use of distributed items. …

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/10250510.htm
Violent crime, political deaths surge in Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
Police in Haiti say the homicide rate has nearly tripled in recent months to nearly three people a day on average. Some of the killings …

www.haitiaction.net/News/AF/11-22-4.html
Kosovo Liberation Army helps establish “protectorate” in Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
… Like the desire for genuine democracy in Haiti, it just won't seem to go away. Recent findings indicate that the United States Agency…

www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041122T230000-0500_70081_OBS_ARISTIDE_S_
ARREST_WARRANT_COULD_TAKE_TIME__SAYS_LATORTUE.asp
Aristide's arrest warrant could take time, says Latortue
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
PARIS, France (AP) – Haiti's interim prime minister said yesterday that authorities were studying whether an international arrest warrant could be issued for…

ANNAN proposes extending UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti
Xinhua – Beijing,China
22 (Xinhuanet) — UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended an 18-month
extension of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti to help the tiny Caribbean
…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2248927.htm

AN international protectorate could bring stability to Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
As Haiti descends deeper each day into anarchy, the time has come to consider
some form of international protectorate to take temporary control of that
…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10242634.htm

CHARTING a Course for Haiti
Moscow Times (subscription) – Moscow,Russia
… Rather than lead us to the promised land of the liberal fundamentalists
— Portugal — the Kremlin has now charted a course for Nigeria and Haiti.
…
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/11/23/006.html

22/11/04

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041122-040101-7171r.htm
UN: Rid Haiti of illegal weapons
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
22 (UPI) — Citing the deteriorating situation in Haiti, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for removal of all illegal weapons from the nation's streets …

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/20/content_2239828.htm
Brazilian troops could remain stationed in Haiti until late-2005
Xinhua – Beijing,China
19 (Xinhuanet) — The Brazilian troops participating in the UN Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti could remain stationed in that country until December 2005 …

www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny—haitian
death1119nov19,0,6833212.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
Family, activists seek answers in death of Haitian minister
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
… of her grief, renowned Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat described her “own personal nightmare” involving the uncle who raised her in Haiti and died …

LULA'S Troops in Haiti
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
… On June 1, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH),
began placing troops from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and other nations on
the ground as…
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6691

WORLD ; UN report projects disturbing downward trends in Haiti's…
Keralanext – Kerala,India
World News, Health, education, the economy and the environment in Haiti
are all headed downhill over the next decade, according to a new joint
report by the…
www.keralanext.com/news/?id=66495

BRAZILIAN troops could remain stationed in Haiti until late-2005
Xinhua – Beijing,China
19 (Xinhuanet) — The Brazilian troops participating in the UN Mission
for the Stabilization of Haiti could remain stationed in that country
until December 2005…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/20/content_2239828.htm

NEW bloodshed erupts as Haiti police, gangs clash
Stuff.co.nz – New Zealand
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Up to a dozen people were killed in raids by police on
armed gangs in slum areas of the Haitian capital blamed for a recent wave
of violence…
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3103606a12,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1355544,00.html
Preacher's death prompts protest
Guardian – UK
… US writer Edwidge Danticat is leading calls for an inquiry into the death in custody of her uncle, an 81-year-old Baptist minister who fled Haiti to seek …

19/11/04

www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3103606a12,00.html
New bloodshed erupts as Haiti police, gangs clash
Stuff.co.nz – New Zealand
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Up to a dozen people were killed in raids by police on armed gangs in slum areas of the Haitian capital blamed for a recent wave of violence …

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6691
Lula's Troops in Haiti
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
… On June 1, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), began placing troops from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and other nations on the ground as …

www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=55384&Section=LO
The Going Of Colin Powell — Our Caribbean
Nation News – Barbados
… be a magnanimous gesture on the part of CARICOM to forgive him for his shocking somsersault on CARICOM's original “peace” initiative on Haiti back in …

www.hardbeatnews.com/details2599.htm
UN Report Projects Disturbing Downward Trends In Haiti
Hardbeatnews.com – Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
… 19: Over 10 percent of Haiti's population could be infected by the dreaded HIV virus by 2015, compared to 6.31 in 2002 and 4.98 in 1996 while 25 per cent …

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3085
Tensions grow between Haiti's former soldiers and UN troops on …
Haiti Info – Haiti
… Thursday when the armed men tried to leave their compound for a march marking the anniversary of a Napoleanic battle that led to Haiti's independence. …

RUMSFELD praises Latin American cooperation on Haiti
Indianapolis Star – Indianapolis,IN,USA
QUITO, Ecuador — American officials are praising the Brazil-led peacekeeping
mission in Haiti as an example of beneficial security cooperation among
Latin…
www.indystar.com/articles/5/195649-1005-010.html

UN report: Impoverished Haiti faces further decline
World Peace Herald – Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON — Haiti appears to be headed toward another decade of decline,
with health, education and social services suffering amid continuing conflict
and…
www.wpherald.com/Latin_America/storyview.php?StoryID=20041118-051610-2600r

TIME running out to help Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
BY BOB GRAHAM. Twice in 10 years, the United States has invaded Haiti to
restore law and order and the fundamentals of a democratic society.…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10209914.htm

A New Chance for a Haiti?
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 18 November 2004: Haiti is on the verge of becoming
a permanently failed state haemorrhaging instability throughout the Caribbean
in…
www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/110078796757.htm

www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10217407.htm
Lawsuit alleges phone company made payments to Aristide
Kansas City Star (subscription) – Kansas City,MO,USA
… that his bosses agreed to make payments to the “private bank account” of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a deal with Haiti's state-owned …

18/11/04

www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/110078796757.htm
A New Chance for a Haiti?
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 18 November 2004: Haiti is on the verge of becoming a permanently failed state haemorrhaging instability throughout the Caribbean in …

www.icg.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=3109
A New Chance for Haiti?
International Crisis Group – Brussels,Belgium
Nine months after an armed uprising and international pressure forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign, the security situation in Haiti is worsening. …

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10209914.htm
Time running out to help Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
BY BOB GRAHAM. Twice in 10 years, the United States has invaded Haiti to restore law and order and the fundamentals of a democratic society. …

www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/110076775942.htm
A year of hardship for Haiti
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
Geneva, November 17, 2004—For Haiti, 2004 has been a year of one crisis after another – a series of natural disasters and episodes of civil unrest. …

UN report: Haiti headed down the tubes
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 17 (UPI) — Haiti appears to be headed toward
another decade of decline, a United Nations report said Wednesday.…
washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041117-054023-2642r.htm

US agrees to share Haiti data with UN
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
QUITO, Ecuador – The US government will start sharing surveillance information
with UN peacekeepers in Haiti and prod the United Nations to strengthen
its…
www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10202565.htm

ARISTIDE Details Last Moments In Haiti. A reprint of his message…
Axis of Logic – Boston,MA,USA
By Jean Bertrand Aristide. EDITOR'S NOTE: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
who left a tumultuous Haiti under shadowy circumstances Feb.…
www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13683.shtml

SENIOR Defense Official on Background in Ecuador
DefenseLINK (public service) – USA
SEN. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: OK. I mean, I hate to characterize it [Inaudible],
but we discussed Argentina — I mean, Haiti was the top item of the agenda.
…
www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041116-1605.html

17/11/04

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/10206151.htm
Haitians want investigation into death of man in federal custody
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
The New York-based National Coalition of Haitian Rights says it has questions about the death of Joseph Dantica, who flew to Miami from Haiti with his son Maxo …

releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=39882
Haitian Asylum-Seeker Dies in Immigration Custody; Haitian Rights …
U.S. Newswire (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
17 /US Newswire/ — Caught in the terrifying crossfire of the political violence and lawlessness that has gripped Haiti since September, 81-year old Joseph …

www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10202565.htm
US agrees to share Haiti data with UN
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
QUITO, Ecuador – The US government will start sharing surveillance information with UN peacekeepers in Haiti and prod the United Nations to strengthen its …

US will offer help on Haiti, Rumsfeld tells Latin American leaders
Kansas City Star (subscription) – Kansas City,MO,USA
QUITO, Ecuador – (KRT) – The US government will start sharing surveillance
information with UN peacekeepers in Haiti and prod the United Nations
to strengthen…
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10199784.htm

HAITI ex-soldiers warn government over unmet demands
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Disbanded Haitian soldiers who
helped oust ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide say they are ready to
take up arms…
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16348010.htm

PM'S Haiti lecture rang sadly hollow
Toronto Star – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
On a whirlwind trip Sunday to strife-torn Haiti, Prime Minister Paul Martin
warned the island's feuding factions to stop the violence, disarm and
make peace…
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_Type1&c=Article&cid=1100559008501&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

HAITI to issue arrest warrant against Aristide
Xinhua – Beijing,China
HAVANA, Nov. 16 (Xinhuanet) — The Haitian government said Tuesdayit has
received support of the international community to issue…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/17/content_2227440.htm

16/11/04

www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/html/20041114T210000-0500
_69594_OBS_FATHOMING_HAITI_S_DIPLOMACY.asp
Fathoming Haiti's diplomacy
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
We were beginning to feel last week that finally there was an opportunity for a breakthrough in Caricom/ Haiti relations. As we suggested …

14/11/04

EX-MILITARY Marauds Haiti While US Blames Aristide
Final Call – Chicago,IL,USA
By Judith Scherr. A recent State Department bulletin blames “Aristide thugs”
for “the violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that began on Sept. 30.”.…
www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1622.shtml

CANADIAN prime minister to visit Haiti to talk peace, encourage…
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti_Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will visit Haiti
for the first time Sunday, aiming to boost international commitment to
rebuilding…
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3060

AMNESTY International denounces police violence in Haiti
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The rights group Amnesty International on
Thursday called on Haiti's interim government to investigate allegations
of police…
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3061

13/11/04

AMNESTY expresses concern over Haiti's justice system
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A delegation from the human rights group Amnesty
International expressed concern Thursday about “serious problems” in Haiti's
…
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041112T190000-0500_69417_OBS_AMNESTY_
EXPRESSES_CONCERN_OVER_HAITI_S_JUSTICE_SYSTEM_.asp

HAITI death toll may reach 2000
RealEstateGates.com – Malta,Malta
Gonaives, HAITI – Jeanne's death toll may increase up to 2000 people. For
now 1070 are claimed dead and 1250 more missing. Besides…
www.realestategates.com/News/23092004/Haiti_death_toll_reach_2000.html

CANADA to provide additional aid to Haiti
Xinhua – Beijing,China
… 3 million Canadian dollars (about 2.5 million US dollars) to support
humanitarian assistance and relief activities for victims of the recent
flooding in Haiti.…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/13/content_2212208.htm

OFF the Front Page, Haiti Still Suffering
NPR (audio) – Washington,D.C.,USA
Description: With the US presidential election and the war in Iraq dominating
the headlines, the ongoing crisis in Haiti has been largely ignored.…
npr.streamsage.com/google/programlist/srfeature.php?wfid=4167135

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/13/content_2212208.htm
Canada to provide additional aid to Haiti
Xinhua – Beijing,China
… 3 million Canadian dollars (about 2.5 million US dollars) to support humanitarian assistance and relief activities for victims of the recent flooding in Haiti. …

npr.streamsage.com/google/programlist/srfeature.php?wfid=4167135
Off the Front Page, Haiti Still Suffering
NPR (audio) – Washington,D.C.,USA
Description: With the US presidential election and the war in Iraq dominating the headlines, the ongoing crisis in Haiti has been largely ignored. …

www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/CCP/view/en/index.cfm?articleid=108649
PRIME MINISTER TO TRAVEL TO HAITI
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) – Canada
Prime Minister Paul Martin today announced that he will travel to Port-au-Prince on November 14 to discuss Haiti's social and economic reconstruction, and …

w5d2.ccnmatthews.com/newsnet/current/1112055n.html
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
CCNMatthews (press release) – Toronto,ON,Canada
… CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY – CIDA NOVEMBER 12, 2004 – 11:17 ET CIDA: Canada Provides Additional Aid to Flood Victims in Haiti OTTAWA, ONTARIO …

12/11/04

www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20041110231512967
US Lifts Arms Embargo on Haiti As Tensions Mount
Vive Le Canada – Canada
… WASHINGTON — The administration of US President George W. Bush has lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, amid sporadic violence that threatens to plunge the …

AMNESTY condemns Haiti's human rights failures
CNN International – Atlanta,GA,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — Rights group Amnesty International on
Thursday condemned what it said were summary executions by police, serious
human…
edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/11/haiti.human.rights.reut/

RP to send peacekeepers to Haiti
ABS CBN News – Quezon City,Philippines
The Philippines will send up to 150 soldiers to Haiti next week to help
United Nations' peacekeeping forces stem political unrest and a wave of
killings ahead…
www.abs-cbnnews.com/FlashNewsStory.aspx?FlashOID=21327

CARICOM to release consensus statement on Haiti
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – After a marathon, five-hour caucus on Tuesday,
during which the volatile post-Aristide political climate in Haiti was
a central issue…
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041110T210000-0500_69285_OBS_
CARICOM_TO_RELEASE_CONSENSUS_STATEMENT_ON_HAITI.asp

NEW police arrivals bring UN security force in Haiti to nearly…
UN News Centre
11 November 2004 — A 250-strong Pakistani police unit has arrived in Haiti
to join the United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) there as the
…
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12513&Cr=haiti&Cr1=

COMMITMENT to join forces to reconstruct Haiti
Granma International – La Habana,Cuba
… global conflicts and issues, the final declaration of the 18th Rio
Summit has committed itself to supporting the social and economic reconstruction
of Haiti.…
www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/noviembre/juev11/46rio.html

11/11/04

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6631
Latortue's House of Cards Crumbling in Haiti
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
… And then of course it's hilarious to hear Brazil announce yeaterday that its forces are going to extend their stay in Haiti until the next elections are held …

www.realestategates.com/News/24092004/Haiti_hunger_revolt_verge978645.html
Haiti on hungry revolt verge
RealEstateGates.com – Malta,Malta
GONAIVES – Despite the tropical storm Jeanne burst in Haiti four days ago, the majority of the city's 200'000 population is continuously residing on roofs …

www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041110T210000-0500_
69285_OBS_CARICOM_TO_RELEASE_CONSENSUS_STATEMENT_ON_HAITI.asp
Caricom to release consensus statement on Haiti
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – After a marathon, five-hour caucus on Tuesday, during which the volatile post-Aristide political climate in Haiti was a central issue …

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/10151156.htm
Gunmen kill police employee in Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Gunmen killed a civilian who worked for the police department in Haiti's capital and tried to burn his body in an attack following more than a …

AN Election Crossroads For Haiti
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 20-Haiti, the poorest country in the Western
Hemisphere, goes to the polls Sunday for what many people here and abroad
regard as…
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=61

CARICOM backs Haiti relief efforts, won't recognize government
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
Leaders of the Caribbean Community vowed to continue helping the people
of Haiti victimized by floods and political violence, but stuck to a pledge
not to…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/10141376.htm

TONS of aid sent to ailing city in Haiti
Times Picayune – New Orleans,LA,USA
… tons of food, clothing, blankets and other donations collected in New
Orleans for the residents of storm-ravaged Gonaives in northwestern Haiti
was scheduled…
www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1100073590185510.xml

US adds $100 million to hurricane aid
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Grenada, Haiti and Jamaica, the primary beneficiaries, will get $42 million,
$38 million and $18 million, in that order, department spokesman Richard
Boucher…
washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041110-015946-4164r.htm

INTERIM Haiti leader and Boca Raton resident takes on critics
Haiti Info – Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Since becoming interim prime minister of Haiti
five months ago, Gérard Latortue has attracted his share of detractors.
…
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=2276

10/11/04

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/10140398.htm
Caribbean Leaders Hold Off Ties With Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Caribbean leaders again held off renewing ties with Haiti – suspended since the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide – citing …

www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_politics?id=45719452
Caricom still closed to Haiti
Trinidad & Tobago Express – Trinidad and Tobago
… After a marathon five-hour caucus session yesterday, at which the volatile post-Aristide political climate in Haiti was a central issue of intense…

www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10138873.htm
Haiti Police Stop Alleged Murder Plot
Kansas City Star (subscription) – Kansas City,MO,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian authorities detained at least 21 prison guards in connection with an alleged plot to kill prisoners affiliated with ousted …

9/11/04

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=238987
Haiti Election Panel in Turmoil as Head Resigns
ABC News – USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – The head of a panel organizing elections in Haiti next year to replace ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has resigned …

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/jim_defede/10133181.htm
Priest's detention is another blow to rights in Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
… It is also still unclear what charges — if any — have been formally filed against the priest, who, before returning to Haiti in 1991, spent 13 years in Miami …

www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20041109/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Haiti and CARICOM
Jamaica Gleaner – Jamaica
… if at the end of this week's summit in Trinidad and Tobago, CARICOM leaders emerge still uncertain how they will deal with the Latortue regime in Haiti. …

www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/11/09/neighbor_nations_seeking_us_cues
Neighbor nations seeking US cues
Boston Globe – Boston,MA,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A week after President Bush's reelection, the United States' closest neighbors are looking for signs of whether the next four years …

www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/250761p-214741c.html
14G on way to nations
New York Daily News – New York,NY,USA
… said. “Things are going to get better and better, but it is still an uphill battle,” said Felix Augustin, consul general of Haiti.…

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041108-063242-5484r.htm
Brazil commits to Haiti untill elections
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. … “If we weren't there (in Haiti) US troops would be doing what we would never do,” said the Brazilian president. …

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/10132337.htm
Brazilian Troops to Remain in Haiti
Miami Herald (subscription) – Miami,FL,USA
BRASILIA, Brazil – Brazilian UN peacekeepers will remain in Haiti until presidential elections are held in that Caribbean nation sometime next year, President …

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3024
Chief of Haiti's election council resigns
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti_The chief official in charge of organizing Haiti's elections resigned Monday amid an internal rift within the agency.…

8/11/04

www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-ahaitia
busesnov08,0,1890641.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean
Gangs responsible for violence against Aristide supporters …
Sun-Sentinel.com – Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The bodies had been whisked away, but a pool of dried blood covering the ground of a dead-end, twisting alleyway was a chilling sign…

www.hardbeatnews.com/details2499.htm
Caricom Leaders Meet In Trinidad Today
Hardbeatnews.com – Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
… The regional leaders are set to discuss Haiti, the proposed Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the creation of the it by next year as well as the re …

7/11/04

www.workers.org/ww/2004/haiti1111.php
Repression grows more violent in Haiti
Workers World – USA
The Haitian police, firmly backed by United Nations forces currently occupying Haiti, have decided on a new tactic to put down the massive, popular resistance …

www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26180
Bush, Haiti Could Upstage Economic Talks
Inter Press Service (subscription) – World
… the need for the leaders to get moving on the CSME — slated to start in 2005 — the damage caused by recent hurricanes, the situation in Haiti and the re …

www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/html/20041106T230000-0500_69005_
OBS_LATIN_AMERICA___HAITI_AND_NEW_POSSIBILITIES.asp
Latin America, Haiti and new possibilities
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
The Latin American initiative, we think, offers the region a broader plane from which to engage Haiti and its interim government, headed by Mr Gerard Latortue …

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/07/content_2186821.htm
UN peacekeepers recapture police station in Haiti
Xinhua – Beijing,China
6 (Xinhuanet) — Soldiers of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti recaptured a police station in the northern town of Gonaives that had been kept since …

news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1286122004
Massacre of Aristide supporters brings back memories of Papa Doc
The Scotsman – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
… The worst thing is that Aristide is now in exile in South Africa, but we are in Haiti, and they are persecuting us only because we live in a poor neighbourhood …

6/11/04

dominionpaper.ca/mediaanalysis/2004/11/06/canadian_m.html
Canadian Media on Haiti
The Dominion – Canada
… misrepresented the events being covered. There are no Canadian journalists filing regularly from Haiti. As a result, media coverage …

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3003
Police flee station in Haiti's third largest city after coming …
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti_An armed group fired on a police station in Haiti's third largest city of Gonaives, prompting officers to flee and setting off a flurry …

electronicintifada.net/v2/article3296.shtml
“Columbia Unbecoming” in the clear light of day
Electronic Intifada – Chicago,IL,USA
Over the past several weeks, claims of intimidation in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) of Columbia University have …

www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=
54976&Section=Life&Current=2004-11-05%2000%3A00%3A00
Will Help Come For Haiti? — New York New York
Nation News – Barbados
… Just ask the people of Grenada, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Haiti about this year's hurricanes, and tears are bound to flow down their faces.…

www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10104613.htm
Latin American Leaders Discuss Haiti
Tallahassee Democrat – Tallahassee,FL,USA
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazil will send additional peacekeepers to help restore order in Haiti and boost the 4,000- force to 5,500, a top government official…

www.hardbeatnews.com/details2491.htm
Violence Continues In Haiti
Hardbeatnews.com – Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
HBN, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Fri. Nov. 5 … body. Still the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) says there is some good news.…

www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=4558
Rio Group summit pledge help for Haiti and democracy.
MercoPress – Uruguay
… Thursday in Rio do Janeiro the XVIIIth Rio Group presidential summit which this Friday will release a document pledging support for Haiti, democracy and…

www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/10101599.htm
Pentagon planning humanitarian effort in Haiti
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is organizing a major humanitarian exercise in Haiti as a show of support for the embattled government of Prime Minister Gerard…

www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041104T180000-0500_
68858_OBS_POLICE_OFFICER_SLAIN_IN_HAITI_CAPITAL.asp
Police officer slain in Haiti capital
Jamaica Observer – Jamaica
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A high-ranking police officer was killed by unknown attackers who left his bullet-riddled body in the streets of Haiti's capital…

www.alterpresse.org/article.php3?id_article=1876
Haiti : Death march
AlterPresse-Haïti – Port-au-Prince,Haiti
… can't stop this, we are looking at the destruction of the Haitian nation.” Bajeux was referring to the political violence that has dominated Haiti for decades…

www.sfbayview.com/110304/haitiactivist110304.shtml
Haiti activists take their anger to Bush & Powell
San Francisco Bay View – San Francisco,CA,USA
Targeting the US role in government-sponsored repression and civil unrest in Haiti, about 100 people took to San Francisco streets on Thursday.…

www.lefthook.org/Culture/Pascarella110404.html
Who we are, our goals, how you can help, join, and submit…
Left Hook – Canada
As I drive into the city from the airport, my cab driver, from Haiti, tells me of the current presidential campaign, “Kerry is going to have to work hard…

04/11/04

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=2990
Haiti's schools suffer as unrest worsens
Haiti Info – Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Outside the rusted gates of a boys elementary school, Acelin Lazarre peddles pencils, notebooks and lunch boxes.…

www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10092322.htm
Bush to review Latin American policy
Kansas City Star (subscription) – Kansas City,MO,United States
… pressing the Cuban government and engaging the region's countries to help preserve democracy in troubled neighbors such as Venezuela and Haiti, an official said…

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/04/content_2176210.htm
Brazil to seek Rio Group's support for Haiti
Xinhua – Beijing,China
3 (Xinhuanet) — Brazil will seek economic and political aid for Haiti at the coming 18th summit of the Group of Rio, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday…

03/11/04

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6557
Haiti: Poverty's Abstract
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
… Claude Lalande, a retired RCMP corporal who served as part of the Canadian-led UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti in 1995 stated, “The infrastructure was not…

www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=79EF22A4-D5D2-4746-A6D7-E2DC8CDF6766
Diminishing Haiti's Few Hopes
TheDay – New London,CT,USA
… of Representatives is on the verge of killing a trade measure that by some accounts would create at least 100,000 new jobs in poverty-stricken Haiti in the…

02/11/04

www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/109940807999.htm
Violence looms in Haiti, Somalia and Thailand, says ICG
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
LONDON (AlertNet) – The International Crisis Group (ICG), an independent think tank devoted to preventing conflict, has identified Haiti, Somalia, and Thailand…

www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=2982
Haiti's Day of the Dead barely celebrated in city where…
Haiti Info – Haiti
… “Now we have no money, so how can we find joy ?”. Haiti's Day of the Dead also is the Roman Catholic Church's All Souls' Day.…

www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6593386?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1
In Brief: McGraw, Wyclef McGraw buys into football team, Wyclef…
Rolling Stone – USA
… WYCLEF JEAN met with community and gang leaders in Bel Air, Haiti, this Sunday in an attempt to help end the violence in Port-Au-Prince that has left nearly…

www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1085&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Haiti's Yannick Etienne at the European Social Forum, October 2004
No Sweat – UK
by Charles Arthur for the Haiti Support Group. Haitian workers' activist, Yannick Etienne, was among the more than 20,000 people…

www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13220.shtml
Haiti: Poverty's Abstract — A Brief Contextual History in the…
Axis of Logic – Boston,MA,United States
… Claude Lalande, a retired RCMP corporal who served as part of the Canadian-led UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti in 1995 stated, “The infrastructure was not…

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3974313.stm
Fugees' Jean urges peace in Haiti
BBC News – London,England,UK
Singer Wyclef Jean has travelled to his native Haiti to promote peace talks, following a wave of violence in which at least sixty people have died.…

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6546
Haiti Emergency
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
… by one. The UN special envoy to Haiti has called for the US installed puppet government to investigate the killings. Some question…

www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/international/americas/02haiti.html
PORT-AU-PRINCE JOURNAL Haiti's Political Vacuum Stokes Flames of …
New York Times – New York,NY,USA
By MICHAEL KAMBER. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 26 – Brinia Max Civil and her two children sleep on scraps of cardboard in a schoolroom …

01/11/04

www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/
articles/2004/11/01/the_last_thing_haiti_needs
The last thing Haiti needs
Boston Globe – Boston,MA,USA
AFTER MONTHS of floods and civil disorder, the only recent good news from Haiti was the commitment by UN peacekeepers to increase their force by the end of …

www.latimes.com/news/education/la-fg-haitischools1nov01,1,848903.story?coll=la-news-learning
Haiti Educators Are Despondent Over Conditions
Los Angeles Times (subscription) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Outside the rusted gates of a boys elementary school, Acelin Lazarre peddles pencils, notebooks and lunch boxes. …

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