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Amnesty
International has issued its 2006 World Report.
The
Haiti
section. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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Yvon
Jean Charles a Political Activist or a Delirious Man
.- Yvon began to neglect himself and his family and
could not keep a job. He is often grungy in appearance and
sometimes neglects to practice basic hygiene. Yvon Jean
Charles by and large is now known as Stinky due to his strong
body odor. It has
been appalling for many to see Yvon standing with no shame on
Morton Street in Dorchester begging for spare change or
cigarettes . -Click
here for more info. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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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.
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Haiti
Solidarity Meeting August 20 - Port au Prince.-The
Solidarity Encounter with the
Haitian People organized by the September 30 Foundation
will take place in
Haiti
from August 20-26. This is an excellent opportunity for people
who care about
Haiti
to connect with Haitian grassroots groups struggling for
justice.
Click
here for more info.
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Port-au-Prince,
20 July 2006 (AHP) The deputy for the ridding of
Ile-à-vâches, Jean David Génesté, was informed on Thursday
by the new
authorities that a commission charged with inquiring into the
disappearance of several gold and emerald pieces and bronze
canons from
the sea-beds of this commune had been formed. Read
this article |
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| Haiti:
Yvon Neptune released: Neptune was currently going through
the procedures for release from prison, and he expected him to
leave within a few minutes.
The
release is a provisional one, to receive medical treatment.
The
re has been decision yet by the Appeals Court of Gonaives on
the appeal of the charges in the La
Scieirie case. Click
here |
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Boston-MA. Conference on
investment opportunities in HaitiThe economic conference on
Haiti’ s tourist investment opportunities held in Boston,
Massachusetts was a tremendous success and gave birth to a new
project that casts light on the future of the tourism industry
in Haiti. Click here |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of exiled former
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took to the capital's
streets on Saturday to call for his return and demand
political prisoners be freed. Click
here to read the article |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of exiled former
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took to the capital's
streets on Saturday to call for his return and demand
political prisoners be freed. Click
here to read this article. |
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| Haiti:
Massacre of innocents.-The shaky peace that has held since
February's election was shattered two days ago by a shanty
town bloodbath of men, women and children, reports Reed
Lindsay in Port-au-Prince. Click
here to read the article. |
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| Haiti.-The
U.N. mission in Haiti says three U.N. peacekeepers have been
injured in a clash with gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The latest violence comes a week after gang violence claimed
the lives of more than 20 people in the city. Click
here to read the article |
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| Haiti
Workers took the street to claim their job back.-Haitian
Civil servants unjustly fired take to streets of
Port-au-prince to call for their reintegration and for the
liberation of all political prisoners. The elected government
of Rene Preval begins commission of inquiry into the massive
lay offs that took place under the Latortue government, which
had warm relations with the IMF and World Bank. Click
here |
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| Undeclared
War on Haiti's People.-I decided to stop over in Miami on
my trip back to Australia from Haiti–after
all, Miami is the gateway to the Promised Land for many
Haitians and others in the Caribbean, especially Cubans.
Read full article |
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| More
chaos feared in Haiti after 16 killed in shootout.-UN
troops discovered 16 bodies in a slum and the dead, said to be
civilians, were likely killed during a gang gunbattle for
territory- Read Full article. |
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| The
Search for Justice for Haiti’s Yvon Neptune and His Fellow
Inmates: All Political Prisoners.- |
| René
Préval has an enormous task ahead of him, as he picks up the
reins of a battered and demoralized nation – one that is in
the ER, almost terminal. Reforming the Haitian judicial
system, however, is perhaps the most critical of his multiple
burdens due to its near ruinous condition.Read
full article |
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| Haiti.-OBS
IN the garment industry, once Haiti's most vital sector, have
dropped from 100,000 in the late 1980s to less than 20,000
today. In a country long plagued by chronic unemployment of 50
per cent to 70 per cent, the apparel assembly sector remains
the nation's most important. Read
this article |
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| Lula
– Brazil’s Lost Leader.-For
many Brazilians, the October 2002 election of President Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva symbolized the ascendance to power of a
leftist prodigal son. Read this
article. |
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| Boston
- The Haitian American Art Exibit .- The
Haitian Art Exhibit is a weeklong event featuring artwork
depicting the Haitian culture and history, where more than 40
art pieces will be exhibited at Doric Hall at the
Massachusetts State House beginning July 24. Click
here for more info. |
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| Torture
is Un-American: The SOA and its Devastating Legacy |
Today,
an attempt will be made to eliminate the final
refuge of the former School of the Americas (SOA),
an immensely controversial military training base
for “qualified citizens of the Western
Hemisphere,” located in Fort Benning, Georgia and
funded by U.S. taxpayers .- Read
this article
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet visited sick
children at a poorly equipped hospital yesterday and pledged
continued support for Haiti's health care, education and
housing. Read this article. |
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| Haiti
Parliament approves new Cabinet.- |
| PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a
new Cabinet that includes members from six political parties,
a strong show of support for President Rene Preval as he
steers the impoverished nation toward peace and stability. Read
this article |
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| President
Titid's Street Boys Targeted.-Two years after a bloody
U.S.-sponsored coup overthrew the democratically elected
government of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, ordinary
Haitians are still struggling to put their lives back
together. Blanchard Vital, 24, is a former street child who
was raised in one of Port-au-Princes popular zones. Read
this article |
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| International
Tribunal on Haiti: Three More U.N. Officers Convicted for
Crimes Against Humanity. |
| One
Brazilian and two Canadian police officers working for the
United Nations Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH) were
convicted of crimes against humanity by a 12-member jury
during the fourth session of the International Tribunal on
Haiti, which took place in Montreal on May 27.-Read
this article |
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| Latin-
America The Path Away From US Domination.- |
| Washington
rumbles with suppressed outrage over Latin America’s latest
professions of its sovereignty – Bolivia’s nationalization
of its oil and natural gas reserves, and Ecuador and
Venezuela’s voiding of their energy contracts. At the same
time, Bolivia’s newly inaugurated president, Evo Morales, is
a prime candidate to join Washington’s pantheon of Latin
American bad boys .-Read this
article posted by CORA ,.June2, 2006 |
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| Fourth
International Tribunal in Haiti Denounces Atrocities |
| The
Fourth International Tribunal on Haiti, like the three before
it, aimed at exposing individual responsibility for the crimes
committed in Haiti after the United States, France and Canada
collectively coordinated the coup and kidnapping of President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004 Read
this article |
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