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Haiti to plant millions of trees to boost forests and help tackle poverty

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 29 (News Analysis) - Government-backed campaign aims to double Caribbean country's forest cover by 2016 Haiti aims to plant 50m trees a year in a pioneering reforestation campaign to address one of the primary causes of the country's poverty and ecological vulnerability. President Michel Martelly will launch the drive to double forest cover by 2016 from the perilous level of 2% – one of the lowest rates in the world. Despite scepticism engendered by past ill-fated campaigns, there are hopes that the high-level push will mark a turning point after hundreds of years of degradation. Haiti was once covered in verdant forests but land clearance for colonial plantations was followed by tree felling for cooking fuel. It is estimated that 30m to 40m trees a year are cut down. Until now, efforts to address this problem, which worsens with floods and mudslides, have been sporadic, small-scale projects, mostly run by foreign non-governmental organisations. But the government has said it will spearhead the new ...

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A Chance to Right a Wrong in Haiti

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Louise C. Ivers - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Evidence shows that the United Nations inadvertently started a cholera outbreak that has since killed 8,000 people. It has a moral obligation to help end the crisis.

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Haiti earthquake baby: Saved from debris, she’s now a happy Miami toddler

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - After saving a baby pulled from the rubble of Haiti's 2010 earthquake, a Monitor correspondent visits Jenny, now a happy toddler, in Miami. ...

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Haiti's press hails 'courage, dedication, creativity' in aftermath of earthquake

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Nahéma Marchal - Jan. 11 (Special Report) - Three years on from the 2010 tragedy, Haiti's media bemoans the slow reconstruction effort but retains a sense of optimism "Oblivion, inertia and shame" reads the headline on Haiti's reconstruction process in the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste.

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Helping Hands in Haiti

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - Ruth W. Messinger, the president of American Jewish World Service, commends the efforts of Haitian grass-roots groups after the 2010 earthquake.

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Editorial: Haiti’s Long Road

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 02 (Editorial) - Three years after the earthquake, recovery is distant and progress slow.

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Opening of upscale hotels marks turning point in Haiti's reconstruction

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 13 (Comment) - Several hotels are scheduled to open or begin construction over the next few months in Haiti, raising expectations of the country's recovery from the devastating 2010 ...

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Latin America: Region one of worst for corruption

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 06 (News Analysis) - Despite economic strides, two-thirds of Latin America averaged in the bottom half of the 2012 Transparency International corruption rankings. Countries like Brazil, however, offer some hope. ...

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Coming out of the Water Closet: Haiti on World Toilet Day

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Janine Mendes-Franco - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - Today is World Toilet Day. Of a global population of 7 billion, a staggering 2.5 billion people have no access to clean toilet facilities - that's about 1 in 3 people. Some of them live in the Caribbean; many of these live in Haiti - and the lack of this fundamental human right to sanitation continues to cause unnecessary disease and death.

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Hurricane Sandy's death toll rises to 65 as flooding continues in Haiti

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Oct. 28 (Breaking News) -

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Haitians, Dominicans try to move beyond Parsley Massacre's long shadow

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ezra Fieser - Oct. 10 (Special Report) - The Parsley Massacre, which killed thousands 75 years ago, profoundly altered relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Recently, hundreds of people gathered on the border to address its legacy. ...

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GOP Rising Star Mia Love: "Anchor Baby"?

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Stephanie Mencimer - Sep. 24 (Comment) - When she spoke at the Republican National Convention last month, Mia Love, a GOP rising star who's vying to become the first black Republican woman elected to the House, wowed delegates with her parents' up-by-their-bootstraps tale. She said their story of coming to America from Haiti with $10 in their pockets formed the basis for her own belief in self-reliance and her staunch opposition to government handouts. Love—mayor of the small town of Saratoga Springs, Utah—has been widely spotlighted as a pol who's going places in the GOP, and she's linked herself closely to GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney. Recently, she served as an official surrogate for Romney on a campaign swing through Nevada, and she MC'd a fundraiser for him in Utah last Tuesday. Though a child of immigrants, Love has embraced much of her party's tough stance on immigration. She has implied that she would back deporting the US-born children of illegal immigrants so as not to reward "bad behavior." Yet by ...

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Hurricane Isaac Leaves 7 Dead In Haiti

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ap - Aug. 26 (News) - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has climbed to nine after authorities in the Dominican Republic reported two deaths Sunday. Authorities...

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Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn’t Broken - NYTimes.com

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Deborah Sontag - Jul. 05 (Special Report) - As rebuilding lags, the showcase project of reconstruction is an industrial park in an undamaged area and in a venture that risks benefiting foreign companies more than Haiti itself

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Haitian Premier Says Loss of Support Led Him to Quit - New York Times

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:56:55 -0800

New York Times - Feb. 26 - BBC NewsHaitian Premier Says Loss of Support Led Him to QuitNew York TimesThe prime minister of Haiti, whose abrupt resignation on Friday threw the country into political turmoil once again, said he knew his job was finished when he called cabinet ministers to a meeting a day earlier: None showed up.Setback for HaitiMiamiHerald.comHaiti Without a Prime Minister Again: Is This Reconstruction or 'Deconstruction'?TIME (blog)Haitian president Michel Martelly promises to act quickly after prime minister ...Boston HeraldBusinessWeek -The Associated Pressall 450 news articles »

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Haiti: WikiLeaks Cables Expose How U.S. Blocked Aristide's Return After 2004 Coup

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 11 (Investigative Report) - A new exposé on Haiti reveals how the United States led a vast international campaign to prevent former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to his country while he was exiled in South Africa. It’s part of a series of reports by The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly Haïti Liberté that draw from almost 2,000 U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that high-level U.S. and U.N. officials coordinated a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from "gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti."

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Clinton Foundation Accused of Sending Haiti Shoddy Trailers Found Toxic After Katrina

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 12 (News Report) - A new exposé in The Nation magazine reveals that trailers the Clinton Foundation donated to post- earthquake Haiti to use as temporary classrooms — and to double as hurricane shelters — are plagued by mold, shoddy construction. In at least one case, an air quality test revealed worrying levels of formeldahyde. The trailers were built by the same company that is being sued in the United States for providing formeldahyde-laced trailers to displaced residents after Hurricane Katrina. We speak with the journalists who broke this story, Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet. “What does it say about the reconstruction efforts in Haiti if the very first project approved by the commission that is supposed to ensure accountability and transparency in Haiti's rebuilding passes this kind of project and Bill Clinton himself has his hands all over it?,” says Macdonald. “He is the co-chair of this commission that is supposed to ensure Haiti is built back better.”

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Leaked WikiLeaks Cable: 2005 Democracy Now! Report on Haiti Killings Irked U.S. Embassy

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 24 (News Report) - Democracy Now! is mentioned in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks that cites our 2005 report on a deadly raid in the poor neighborhood of Cité Soleil by United Nations forces. “You accurately reported on what was going on and the embassy was alarmed by it,” says our guest, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin. “What they were upset about is there wasn’t PR push back on Democracy Now! by the U.N.” Another cable shows U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called embassies around the world to tell them to “get the narrative right” with editors and fight negative portrayals of U.S. deployment in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. [includes rush transcript]

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Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and Elite's Private Army

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Jun. 24 (News Report) - Drawing on almost 2,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks, a partnership between The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Haïti Liberté, exposes new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked with the United States to block an increase in the minimum wage in the hemisphere's poorest nation, how business owners and members of the country's elite used Haiti's police force as their own private army after the 2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and how the United States, the European Union and the United Nations supported Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections, despite concerns over the exclusion of Haiti's largest opposition party, Lavalas, the party of Aristide. We speak with the reports' authors, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin and Haïti Liberté editor, Kim Ives.

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WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Dan Coughlin, Kim Ives - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Confirming what Haitians already knew, a WikiLeaks document shows how US and international donors staged the phony presidential election.

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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of U.S. Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies' Behest

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 03 (News Report) - The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Haïti Liberté, has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Called "The PetroCaribe Files," the series begins with an exposé of how the United States—with pressure from Exxon and Chevron—tried to interfere with an oil agreement between Haiti and Venezuela that would save Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, $100 million per year. "It is really amazing to see an ambassador pushing around a president, and all his officials telling them what to do, trying to tell them what Haiti's interests are. It is the epitome of arrogance," says the report’s co-author, Kim Ives. We are also joined by veteran Haiti correspondent, Dan Coughlin.

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WHO report finds rich and poor nations now battle all kinds of diseases

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 17 - Progress has been made on key MDG health targets, but non-infectious diseases have spread to developing countriesThe world is experiencing a change in the geographic distribution of diseases. Traditionally, infectious diseases, which claim the lives of so many children, have affected poor countries and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cardiac ailments and cancer, have plagued rich countries.But the latest statistics released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday show that the income level of nations is no longer so important, and that all countries now face the burden of both kinds of diseases.Up to now, non-communicable diseases tended to be identified as the ills of opulence, limited to high-income countries, WHO's director of health statistics and informatics, Ties Boerma, told IPS.However, due to changes caused by the ageing population, improvements brought about by the global effort to meet the millennium development goals (MDGs), changes in birthrates and other factors, developing countries are now also fighting non-infectious diseases, he said.Boerma noted that the phenomenon began in urban areas of developing nations, among the most highly educated population groups, but it is now expanding rapidly. That was one of the central conclusions reached by WHO experts on the basis of the World Health Statistics 2011 report published on Friday.The study confirms that important progress has been made in improving the main health indicators, fighting poverty, bolstering gender equality and education, and moving towards the other goals outlined in the eight MDGs, which were agreed by the international community in the 2000 UN general assembly and have a 2015 deadline, Boerma said.Over the past 10 years, the rate of improvement of infant and maternal mortality rates – key MDG targets – has been twice as fast as progress made in the 1990s.Many countries are still lagging, some of them considerably, which means a huge effort is needed over the next five years to meet the MDGs, Boerma said. Nevertheless, the rate of progress is speeding up overall, he added.In the case of child mortality, the world is only halfway to the MDG target, while in the case of maternal mortality, the world is only one-third of the way there, the WHO expert said.The question of infant mortality will be evaluated again in September, when WHO and Unicef, the UN children's fund, release new statistics. For now, "we are still standing at 8.1 million" children under five who died in 2009, Boerma said, compared with 12.4 million in 1990.With respect to the situation in the Americas, he said the statistics show that "very good progress" has been made in many countries.In Brazil, Argentina and Chile, for example, "there have been steady but relatively fast declines in child mortality, and coverage intervention is high. And they also reduced the inequity between the poorest and the richest. Brazil has been a very good case study of where the poorest have benefited," he said, adding that Mexico has also progressed.At the other extreme, of course, is Haiti, he said, adding that the health indicators are still worrying in countries like Bolivia and Peru, which have made some advances but "still have a much longer way to go".Boerma cited the case of Cuba, pointing out that although it is not a rich country, it "spends quite a lot on health" and does so "in a very equitable way."Everybody has (free) access to health services," he said. "So in terms of life expectancy it ranks quite high and it has low child mortality and high coverage of intervention. So it is very successful in reaching the whole population and getting good value" for its investment, he added.The expert noted that the US "is not at the top" in terms of health statistics in the Americas. He said: "They are at the top when it comes to the amount of money they spend on health. But they are not at the top in terms of getting good results for their investments in health services."One reason," he said, "may be that coverage of the whole population is not so good. So much of the expenditure goes to relatively expensive curative interventions or interventions that benefit a smaller proportion of the population."The WHO study reported that average global life expectancy rose from 64 years in 1990 to 68 in 2009. In poor countries, the average is 56 years, while it has climbed to 80 years in wealthy countries.Life expectancy for women is five years longer on average than for men. That difference has held fairly steady, between four and five years, over the past two decades.The WHO figures show there is still a huge gap in health spending between low and high-income countries, averaging an annual $32 per capita in the former and $400 per capita in the latter.The study reports that high-income countries have, per capita, 10 times more doctors, 12 times more nurses and midwives and 30 times more dentists, on average, than low-income countries.HealthWorld Health OrganisationAids and HIVMillennium development goalsInfant mortalityMaternal healthMaternal mortalityUnited StatesBrazilArgentinaCubaBoliviaPeruHaitiUnited Nationsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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“Sing Your Song”: Harry Belafonte on Art & Politics, Civil Rights & His Critique of President Obama

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Harry Belafonte - May. 16 (Interview) - Legendary musician, actor, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte joins us for the hour to talk about his battle against racism, his mentor Paul Robeson, the power of music to push for political change, his close relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the U.S. role in Haiti

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Haitians Forced Out of Tents to Homes Just as Precarious

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Randal C. Archibold - Apr. 24 (News) - More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.

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Obamas Donated 14% of Their Income to Charity in 2010

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Chronicle of Philanthropy - By Lisa Chiu - Apr. 19 (News Report) - President Obama and his wife, Michelle, donated 14 percent of their income to charity in 2010, according to the couple’s 2010 tax return. The couple, which reported an adjusted gross income of $1.7-million in 2010, gave $245,075 to 36 charities.

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