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  • Economy

    Haiti’s Finance Minister Resigns

    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald
    April 10, 2013

    Haiti’s minister of finance and economy has resigned, effective immediately.

    Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie sent her resignation letter to Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe early Wednesday morning, saying that she was leaving her role as the country’s economy chief. She has been in the job for about a year.

    Nicknamed “the Iron Lady,” Jean-Marie worked in Cuba for eight years before giving up her residency there to return to Haiti in 2010. She is considere

  • Education

    Michel Martelly’s education plan in Haiti marked by mismanagement and inflated claims

    Travis Ross, rabble.ca
    April 9, 2013

    Montreal — Haiti Grassroots Watch (HGW) has just completed a two month investigation of the state of the education system in Haiti. The investigation has revealed that th

  • Health

    Haitian Cholera Victims to UN: Start Talks for Compensation or We’ll Sue for Billions

    By Makini Brice, Counsel & Heal 
    May 9, 2013

    Lawyers from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti have issued the United Nations with an ultimatum: either start talks for a compensation claim w

  • Housing

    Haiti: Hundreds of Families Risk Forced Eviction

    Amnesty International 
    April 18, 2013

    URGENT ACTION
    Hundreds of families risk forced eviction

    Hundreds of families left homeless after Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake are being threatened with forced eviction from their makeshift camp in the Christ-Roi neighbourhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

    A man claiming to be the landowner came to the Christopher camp in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on 23 March, with a

  • Immigration
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    Hastings on the Third Anniversary of Haiti Earthquake

    January 11, 2013
     
    Contact: Lale Mamaux  
    Phone: (202) 225-1313
    www.alceehastings.house.gov
     
    Hastings o

  • Law & Justice

    As Renewed Haiti Cholera Crisis Looms, UN Blamed For Inadequate Effort

    George Russell, FoxNews.com
    May 23, 2013

    As the annual rainy season gathers over Haiti, bringing the risk of a renewed cholera epidemic that first struck in October 2011, growing numbers of health care professionals and relief workers are openly critical of the United Nations — which ma

  • IJDH Press

    Interview With Nicole Phillips on RFI English

    Short news clips of Jean-Claude Duvalier facing court accused of crimes against humanity and corruption. Interview with Nicole Phillips, a lawyer from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti representing several alleged victims of political crimes. Broadcast on RFI English on 21/2/2013

    Click HERE to See More Infor­ma­tion about Duva­lier Pros­e­cu­tion Project.

  • Women's Issues

    Op-Ed: Hope, Haiti and an End to Gender-Based Violence

    By Laura Pukatch, Take Part
    April 23, 2013

    The global epidemic of violence against women and girls can be addressed by how America spends its foreign aid funds.

    It’s appalling.

    In some countries, up to 70 percent of women will experience some form of violence in their lifetimes.

    But earlier this month I found reason for hope in the words of a Haitian women’s advocate—we’ll call her Marie—who I met in