Secretary-General Guterres Must Ensure the UN’s Moral Debt to Haiti is Paid
In December 2016, after six years of trying to avoid blame for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti in 2010, the United Nations apologized for its role and announced…
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Impunity for UN Peacekeepers Who Rape Women in Haiti
In talking to women around Haiti, Al Jazeera Fault Lines found only one in twelve women who reported being raped by a United Nations peacekeeper. The one woman who filed…
UN Struggles to Fund Cholera Plan or Consult Victims
In December 2016, when then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized to Haitians for the UN cholera epidemic for the first time, he also announced a $400 million plan to reduce cholera and…
U.N. may remove MINUSTAH military peacekeepers from Haiti
A United Nations official has said that the MINUSTAH peacekeeping operation in Haiti is under review, and this might lead to the removal of military peacekeepers from Haiti. The U.N.…
Un-Vaccinated UN Troops Risk Exacerbating Haiti Cholera
Though cholera vaccines are now mandatory for all UN troops and peacekeepers, a unit deployed to Haiti from India, where cholera is endemic, was not vaccinated. This is alarming because…
UN Cholera Apology’s a First Step But Much More Needs to Be Done
On December 1 before the General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized for the cholera epidemic and detailed a $400 million plan to fight the disease. While the apology is a…