Canadian troops in Haiti accused of making death, rape threats.-MONTREAL -- Canadian troops and police with the United Nations in Haiti made death threats during house raids and made sexual threats against women while drunk and off-duty, according to Haitians interviewed as part of a meticulous human-rights survey by U.S. researchers in December 2005 published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet. Click here to read this article.

Police and political groups linked to Haiti sex attacks.-More than 30,000 women and girls - half under the age of 18 - were raped in Haiti's capital city in the chaotic two years following the ousting of the country's democratically elected president, a survey has suggested. About 8,000 people were killed during the same period. Click here to read this article

Haiti Gang Fails to Disarm.-Gang leaders in Haiti's largest slum said on Monday that they were putting disarmament plans on hold due to raids by UN peacekeepers on the streets they control. Read this article.

Annette Auguste.-Above all, Annette Auguste and her co-defendants deserve our thanks and praise for insisting on justice through the dark days of Haiti's brutal Interim Government, and the frustratingly slow transition to democracy Read this article

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's government threw down the gauntlet to the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation's armed gangs on Thursday, telling them to lay down their weapons or be killed. Click here to read this article.

The Return: Aristide, law and democracy in Haiti.-Say "the return" when discussing Haiti, and people who follow events in the country know you are talking about former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returning from his exile in South Africa..Click here to read the article.