Letter from Gonaives
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Date: 18 August 2004
In a challenging political and economic environment, Boston-based Grassroots International (GRI) announced today the successful completion of its $1 million Global Justice Fund.
“We launched this fund at the absolute trough of the recession and in a national political environment very hostile to international social change philanthropy,” said GRI Executive Director, Kevin Murray. “That we were successful says something important about the work of our international partners, and the ability of our donors to see the connection between global justice and real global security.”
Thousands of social activists will gather at UMass/Boston July 23-25 for the Boston Social Forum.
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.