“It’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world and to think about how you can start to make a difference, even when you’re a kid.”
On January 12, 2010 a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, killing 230,000 people,
January 12, 2012—New York, NY—Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, a report detailing the impa
The January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti.
Issuing unprecedented recommendations to the Haitian government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR
NEW YORK - January 10 - Today, MADRE, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), the Bureau des Avoca
This report documents Amnesty International's concerns about human rights abuses in Haiti after the departure of form
Nearly ten months after the January 12 earthquake, the people of Haiti are still living in a state of emergency, with
Trans Africa Forum composed of Digital Democracy, MADRE, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, University of
Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, women and girls living in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp
Women and gender issues were glaring in their absence from the March 31st Haiti International Donors' Conferen
Refugees - often forced from their homes with nothing but the clothes on their back, then confined in camps and depen
This report provides an assessment of the situation of discrimination and violence against women in Haiti and the cur
“Peacekeeping economies” have not been subject to much analysis of either their economic or socio-cultura
In french, IANSA women in Haiti have submitted a shadow report to highlight specific issues and in this way maintain
Haiti – named “the Pearl of the Antilles” by Christopher Columbus, is a country that has known only
This report is the second in a series of eight reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout the
Today's multidimensional peacekeeping operations encompass a wide range of activities such as civil affairs, human ri
It was the middle of the night when masked men armed with semi-automatic assault rifles burst into the Cap Haitian ho
On Friday, February 18, a radio station in Gonaïves, Haiti claimed that three members of the UN Peacekeeping For
In a climate of deep insecurity and escalating violence, Haitian women, the backbone of Haitian society and economy,
In her role as Senior Gender Adviser, Ms.
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) began deployment in June 2004.
The military coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on September 30, 1991, plunged Haiti into a
Haitians are witnessing the collapse of their country's nascent democracy as political violence and human rights abus
Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance.
In follow-up to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/77, entitled “Situation of human rights in Haiti&rdq
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has monitored the general human rights situation in Haiti for over fort