Human Rights Groups Charge Kofi Annan & Colin Powell Attempt to Legitimize Program “Designed by and for Foreigners” at July 19-20 Meeting at World Bank
Public Protest Outside World Bank (18th & Pennsylvania, N.W.) – 8 am, Tuesday, July 20
Le Cadre de Coopération Intérimaire (CCI) est devenu un outil essentiel dans le contexte des activités de planification des actions du Gouvernement de transition. Décidés le 23 Mars 2004 au cours d'une réunion tenue à Washington, confirmés au cours de la rencontre du Gouvernement avec les Bailleurs le 23 avril dernier, les travaux ont été mis en route le 6 mai.
Haiti has a new development plan aimed at pulling the country out of its age-old economic, social and political morass with new roads and schools, policy changes and millions upon millions o
Haitian civil society organisations' declaration on the Interim Cooperation Framework process
14 June 2004
A new country is being born within Haiti.
June 2004, Qalqilya, Palestine
Louis-Jodel Chamblain has turned himself over to Haitian authorities and on Thursday, 22 April 2004, Chamblain was transferred to the Civil Prison in Petion-Ville (Port-au-Prince).
Haiti is in a time of critical transition as it attempts to move forward from a period of significant instability and insecurity.
The workers in the Okowa/Codevi Free Trade Zone have been struggling to get the IMF-backed Dominican Manufacturing concern Grupo M to respect their basic labor and human rights.
The Haitian organisations that are members of the Assembly of Caribbean People express their concern and indignation at the announced visit of Mr Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Jamaica over the next few weeks.
Dear Sisters of the Caribbean,
On March 6, the Brazilian news agency ADITAL interviewed Camille Chalmers in Port-au-Prince.
We come forth as the conferences of the approximately 250,000 Catholic men and women vowed religious sisters, brothers, and priests of the Americas gathered here in Washington, DC, for the annual meeting of the Confederation of Latin American Religious, the Canadian Conference of Religious, the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and the U.S. Conference of Major Superiors of Men's Institutes of the Religious Life. We are profoundly shaken by the events in Haiti in recent weeks and especially over these days.
Statement of Inter-American Committee of Religious
Gathered in Washington, DC March 5, 2004
Grassroots International today called on the US and the United Nations to actively seek the participation of Haiti’s grassroots organizations in the country’s political transition.
Grassroots International today called on the U.S. and the United Nations to actively seek the participation of Haiti's grassroots organizations in the country's political transition.
Hundreds of people have been killed by mudslides and flash foods in the border region around Malpasse, Fond Verettes, Thiotte and Grand Gosier. In Fond Verettes around 160 people died as a flash flood scoured a section of town half a mile long and 1,000 feet wide. At least 540 houses were destroyed or buried, and another 1,500 were damaged, according to a UN official.
Relief workers say that about 50 of the 135 or so people killed on the Dominican side of the border were thought to be Haitian black-market traders camped out in the town of Jimani.
1- Antecedents
Haiti is going through a structural crisis which began with independence 200 years ago. We are also in a conjunctural crisis dating from the stolen elections of May 21 and the mascarade elections of 26 November.
Remember that it was Arisitde himself who drew up the list of people nominated for posts at all levels in the May 21st elections.
El saldo de los sucesivos desgobiernos presididos por Jean-Bertrand Aristide en Haití está a la vista: sociedad postrada en la peor miseria del continente, economía paralizada y en ruinas
