Showing articles 1 - 20 of 532 (sorted by date).
| 1 |  | 2013-03-02: U.N. Rejects Guilt Despite Incontrovertible Evidence by Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Herald |  |
| The claims were "not receivable."
Not receivable? Where does this language come from? Was Ban Ki-moon worried they'd deliver the corpses to the linen-and-silver-service restaurant atop the U.N.? | Rating: 5 |
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| 2 |  | 2013-03-01: Double Standards by the Economist | |
| The U.N. condemns Baby Doc, but exonerates itself. Most scientists have concluded that the U.N. unwittingly brought cholera to Haiti via grossly inadequate sanitation practices at a peacekeeping base. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 |  | 2013-02-27: Foreigners Arrive to Urge Us On, but it Is They, Too, Who Have Put Us in this Debacle by Marvel Dandin, Radio Kiskeya |  |
| A country can die. Haiti could be next. Foreigners have recently arrived in our midst to urge us on, but it is precisely they who, perhaps even more than the Haitians, have put us into this debacle. | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 |  | 2013-02-16: U.N. Envoy Adds to Pressure for Election Decision by U.N. News Center | |
| If there is one issue that dominates the discourse and highlights the disappointment of Haiti’s friends, it is the impasse in the organization of the elections. | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 |  | 2013-02-12: Conference: Three Years After the Earthquake by Haiti Advocacy Working Group | |
| To assess the impact of the last three years, beginning with a panel on gender. Ran February 4 and 5 on Capitol Hill. | Rating: 3 |
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| 6 |  | 2013-02-07: We Believe in Haiti by American Jewish World Service | |
| While many organizations left after the earthquake, the AJWS more than doubled its support. Now funding forty grantees. | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 |  | 2013-01-19: Unapologetic Amy by Michael Deibert, on Huffington Post | |
| An absorbing new book by Amy Wilentz, with the shortcoming of an unwillingness to address directly the tangled legacy of Aristide, a man whom Wilentz, as much as any writer, helped to bring to international prominence. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 |  | 2013-01-17: Canada Leave Haiti? Get Real by Carlo Dade, Toronto Globe & Mail | |
| There are few results from $1 billion in aid. It has fed corruption, dependence and skewed incentives. We need more of the Haitian elite and government to care about their country, as much as most donors. Yet, Canada can't leave and here's why. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 |  | 2013-01-14: Did Canada Choose the Right Time to Freeze its Aid? by James Morrell on CHCH DT TV, Ontario | |
| That's a dilemma. The key lies in elections in which the people can replace the corrupt government. To get there, Canada ought not follow the U.S. which has yet to find an effective strategy. It should use its own thinktanks and experience to find one. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2012-12-26: Lofty Hopes, Hard Truths by Deborah Sontag, New York Times | |
| $7.5 billion disbursed without much effect, undercut by enormousness of the task, the weakness and volatility of the Haitian government, and Western continuation of business as usual. | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 | | 2012-12-16: U.N. Human Rights Expert Deplores State of Judiciary by United Nations on Alterpresse | |
| « Il est inconcevable que dans une situation d’État de droit, ceux, qui sont chargés de faire respecter les lois et de les appliquer, ne les respectent pas ». | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2012-12-09: Project's Tenth Anniversary by webmaster | |
| The project opened on November 19, 2002 at a conference at the Brookings Institution. We mark the event in various ways including excerpting from the speech of our founding chairman Amb. Timothy Carney | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 |  | 2012-12-02: Shame on the U.N. for Creating the Deadly Cholera Epidemic That's Killed 7,500 in Haiti by Patrick Cockburn, London Independent | |
| Haitians suffer more than most people in the world from poverty and disease. But for the past century, they have at least been free from cholera. Not any more, thanks to the U.N. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 |  | 2012-02-19: Maladroit International Policy Has Split Martelly and Conille and Paralyzed the Executive by Robert Bénodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Martelly insists on carrying out the promises on which he campaigned, while the prime minister acts as a proxy of the international community in favoring the same Lavalas faction that kept Haiti stagnant for the last twenty-five years. | Rating: 5 |
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| 15 |  | 2012-02-11: Haiti's Rise from the Rubble by Paul Collier in Foreign Affairs | |
| The brilliant analyst misfires here by being oblivious to the existence in Haiti of the personnel who can build a modern state and the proclivity of the voters to elect them in free elections. | Rating: 1 |
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| 16 |  | 2011-11-17: Raul Castro Receives Martelly by Alterpresse | |
| High-level reception contrasts with that afforded ex-President Préval on his last visit. | Rating: 3 |
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| 17 |  | 2011-11-16: No New Army for Haiti by Miami Herald editorialists | |
| Westerners with 10,000 troops in Haiti saddle a new president with an illegitimate, obstructive parliament, then tell him he can't have his own force. | Rating: 2 |
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| 18 |  | 2011-10-17: Watch Out for U.S. Rumor Campaign Against Martelly by Stanley Lucas | |
| Contrary to their U.S. detractors, the new prime minister and cabinet ministers are not Duvalierists but part of a new guard that is building institutions and answering to the people. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2011-10-17: Accused Murderer Is Chief AP Source Against Martelly by Trenton Daniel, Associated Press | |
| A man wanted in Cap-Haïtien court for murder, and later fraudulently elected senator, is the chief authority quoted by this AP reporter to label the Martelly government Duvalierist. | Rating: 1 |
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| 20 |  | 2011-10-16: Another Potshot Against Martelly by Washington Post editorialists | |
| Plenty of criticism for a rare elected president of Haiti, but none for an international management that foisted both an illegitimate parliament and a cholera epidemic on Haiti. | Rating: 1 |
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