Is the UN repackaging Haiti's cholera aid? - Inside Story Americas. The United Nations last week launched what it described as a new multi-billion dollar effort to eradicate cholera in Haiti, and the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Haiti may have many problems but until 2010 cholera was not one of them. In fact, the country had no known history of the disease at all. But that fact changed in October 2010, and in the 25 months since cholera has infected hundreds of thousands and killed close to 8,000 people. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, made the announcement, but it was subsequently pointed out that the plan is simply a repackaging of an already-existing programme that began nearly a year ago.
Critics say the plan is "purely aspirational". In addition, the UN is still refusing to admit that its peacekeeping troops from Nepal were the source of the outbreak in the first place, something that is even supported by UN-appointed scientists. The UN has spent $118m responding to the cholera outbreak to date. Reliefweb. Catastrophes : Tornades, inondations, choléra ravagent Haïti. N’oubliez pas les Haïtiens. FoodForThePoor : #Photo of the Day: A sleepy... Just Appease Me. Undeny. The message is simple: over 500,000 Haitians have been infected with Cholera and over 7,000 have died from the disease since october 2010. Yet, Haiti is still left without sufficient sanitation and water infrastructure or reparations for the more than half a million victims of the Cholera outbreak. Baseball in The Time of Cholera is a powerful insight into the tragedy and scandal of Haiti’s Cholera epidemic through the eyes of a young baseball player.
Please share this story with your friends and family via Facebook and Twitter. Sign the petition to end Cholera in Haiti here What is Cholera? Cholera is a waterborne illness that causes acute, profuse diarrhea and vomiting. Cholera disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable; it is generally easily treatable with oral rehydration solutions, but for those who lack access to clean water and medical care, it can kill in a matter of hours. How did the epidemic spread through Haiti? Did the UN really bring Cholera to Haiti? BASEBALL IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA.
The Business Of Recovery: Haiti Needs Investment More Than Aid. Weeks before the devastating earthquake struck Haiti in early 2010, I had the opportunity to visit the country with a team of Abbott scientists and engineers to explore ways that we, as a health care company, could lend our expertise to advance the work of longstanding nonprofit health care leader Partners In Health (PIH).
Amidst Haiti’s many challenges and ingrained poverty, I saw firsthand the positive impact of linking health interventions with economic development in Haiti’s Central Plateau region. PIH and its sister farming organization, Zanmi Agrikol, were helping to address critical health and nutrition needs, while at the same time delivering something equally important: an economic cluster of activity that provides jobs and training--the building blocks for a better future.
Of course, with the earthquake and its aftermath, the focus for many Haitians shifted away from building their future, to just surviving to see tomorrow. Two years later, significant challenges remain. Evanston.patch. The former Evanston 2nd Ward alderman responds to his judicial primary win. Former Evanston 2nd Ward alderman Lionel Jean-Baptiste beat out his opponent Tuesday night in the Democratic primary race for Circuit Court Judge of Cook County’s 9th Judicial Subcircuit, . Though Judge Jean-Baptiste has yet to officially win the judicial position, he is currently running unopposed in November’s general election and called the primary victory his “significant fight”. The Hatian-born Jean-Baptiste attributed his victory to a collective effort and support from his Evanston-base. “The entire city of Evanston made me feel really supported,” he said. “Everyone that I ran into really had positive comments as to my past service to the city.
I think that is the trampoline from which I came to get into this race, which covered such a wide area. Jean-Baptiste thanked both members of the Evanston City Council and various local Democratic politicians for their help during his campaign. Haiti, U.S.A.: Clean Your Own House First. Did Haiti's Duvalier get away with murder? - Inside Story Americas. Human rights groups have condemned a decision not to try Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's former ruler, on crimes against humanity. A Haitian judge decided this week that Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, should not stand trial for crimes against humanity.
He is accused of the torture and murder of thousands of his own people during his 15 year rule in the seventies and eighties. A year ago, Duvalier made a surprise return to the country after 25 years in exile. The judge ruled that his alleged crimes fell outside Haiti's statute of limitations. The judge, however, did say that Duvalier should stand trial on corruption charges. In heavily criticising the decision, human rights groups say they gave prosecutors hundreds of documents detailing cases of abuse. Human Rights Watch called it the most important criminal case in Haitian history. Duvalier was only 19 when he was named Haiti's president for life in 1971 after the death of his father Francois – known as Papa Doc. Haiti Partners - Bridge to a Better Life.
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Approved in 2006. But, five years later, the water isn’t running yet. Children are still in the streets bearing bottles and buckets. The project is almost finished. “The end of October,” according to the funder. But not yet. Why? Unavoidable liquid, inescapable burden There’s a new reservoir, pipes, and over a dozen water fountains, but the people who live in the poor neighborhoods of Debussy and Upper Turgeau still have to walk for long hours to obtain this live-saving resource. Tercy, a university student, lives in Georges City, one of the miserable and informal neighborhoods of Turgeau. “I leave home at 5:35 am to get two gallons of water. A young boy on one of his daily water trips. Emmanuel Lima, carrying a full bucket on his head, relayed the same comments.
“In this country, those in power are too negligent. Studies stumbling blocks. Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic May Be Blamed on U.N. Peacekeepers. Come with me through 117 pages of euphemisms, bureaucracy, and mayhem. Oops, April 15th… Why do they call it a tax “return”? The cable company doesn’t call its bill a “waste-of-time return.” Or is the IRS saying that, since government prints the money, we’re supposed to return it to where it came from? Anyway… Got up bright and early this morning—by freelance-writer standards—around 10:30 AM. Freelance Writer, Let Me Point Out Some Further IRS Abuses of the English Language… I have a file cabinet. At least no tipping is expected.
Googled “File Income Tax”… Found a lot of ads offering to do this for free. Scrolled Down… Until I came to irs.gov/Filing, which I take to be the real thing. Clicked… And got a page with the IRS logo. I’m easily distracted when doing my taxes, aren’t you? Page with Crest Was Titled… “Do I Need to File a Tax Return?” Had thought there was a law about that. The IRS wanted me to answer some questions. Clicked Some More… Got “Your Rights as a Taxpayer.” Address Is Requested… Haiti: After the Quake - Al Jazeera Correspondent. Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker was sent to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked the tiny island nation in January 2010.
His assignment was to last two weeks, but he was there for more than a year. He saw firsthand how Haitians dug up their dead from the rubble with their bare hands. He witnessed people struggling to recover from an earthquake, violent weather and disease. Millions throughout the country were made homeless. More than a year later, millions of Haitians are still living in makeshift camps, cholera has become an epidemic and the aid money has run out. Sebastian Walker revisits many of the people he met at a time when Haiti was deep in crisis to examine how the country has coped since the earthquake struck.
This film examines why a system that was designed to help actually ended up exacerbating the misery and how aid efforts created a state of over-dependence. By Sebastian Walker "Where are you? That is how it was for me. From bad to worse. Plaidoyer pour des « logements décents » en Haïti. La crise du logement dans le pays ne date pas d’hier. Mais, avec le tremblement de terre, la dimension du problème s’est amplifiée. Dans le cadre de la reconstruction, le défi n’est pas seulement de reloger les personnes déplacées mais également d’offrir un « logement décent » aux personnes vivant dans des logements pour le moins insalubres et précaires. Cette problématique a fait l’objet, le 9 juin à Port-au-Prince, d’une rencontre entre différents acteurs du secteur, à laquelle a participé notamment la Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur le Logement Convenable, Mme Raquel Rolnik.
La Rapporteuse spéciale sur le Logement Convenable est en Haïti du 8 au 11 juin, dans le cadre d’une visite de travail. Selon elle, la question du logement en Haïti est d’ordre structurel. Au 16 mars 2011, l’état structurel d’un total de 400.000 bâtiments résidentiels a été évalué. 27% des constructions sont marquées « jaune », ayant subi des dommages mais pouvant être réparées. The 2010 Humanitarian Accountability Report. The report begins with an overview of accountability in the humanitarian system in 2010 written by John Borton, an experienced consultant and researcher. Borton identifies areas of both positive development and continuing need in relation to accountability.
Positive developments include an increase in the proportion of evaluations considering accountability to intended beneficiaries and the positive impact of certification systems, such as HAP’s, on organizational performance and accountability towards affected population. Progress still needs to made in addressing the issue of too many in experienced NGOs accessing affected populations in high profile emergency responses and failures of leadership within the humanitarian system. The report continues with an analysis of the Sixth Annual Survey of Perceptions on Humanitarian Accountability, which shows a gradual improvement in the accountability deficit in 2010.
Marguerite Dehler: "RT @worldNP: anyone have i. U.S. revokes visas of Haiti officials. VOA | Aristide Says He Wants to Return to Haiti | Americas. Deposed former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he is ready to return to his homeland from exile in South Africa, days after former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier made an unexpected appearance after 25 years. Mr. Aristide said in a statement that he is ready to come back "today, tomorrow, at any time.
" The former president said he hopes the governments of Haiti and South Africa will make that possible. Mr. Aristide, who fled Haiti in February 2004 during a popular revolt, says his goal is to contribute to "serving my Haitian sisters and brothers as a simple citizen in the field of education. " U.S. In 1990, Mr.
Meanwhile, Mr. Authorities have confiscated Mr. In addition, a former United Nations spokesman and three other prominent Haitians have filed criminal complaints accusing Mr. Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, says Haiti must carry out the recommendations of an international report on Haiti's disputed November election. UN: It's easy! For every person who takes this @WFP quiz, one child in #Haiti will receive a war. Global DIRT | Disaster Immediate Response Team. City of Dust. At Police Headquarters in Port-au-Prince, the chief of the National Judicial Police, a tall, slender man named Frantz Termilus, sat in a meeting with his boss, the superintendent, discussing the city’s nagging kidnapping issue.
Termilus was a tireless man who loved his job, whose forthright manner and faith made him a force for good. It wasn’t just the number of medals he won; it was his attitude every day: he truly believed that with humility and industriousness the wild city could be tamed. And now, in midsentence, that otherworldly grinding came and drowned out his voice.
Then Termilus was lifted and thrown, the office lurching abruptly — the floor levering illogically — tossing him, and the furniture, into the far corner. The police chief pressed his hands against the wall to hold himself in place, even as the walls crumbled and calved, trying to avoid being thrown off the back of whatever large creature had come for vengeance. Termilus had a wife, two daughters and a son. Haití, días de cólera. Ampliar foto La epidemia de cólera se extiende por Haití y las medidas profilácticas parecen insuficientes para controlarlaMiguel Angel de La Fuente y Alfredo Sánchez-Toledo Ampliar foto La población se mueve en condiciones insalubres, rodeados de basura y sin acceso garantizado a un agua limpiaMiguel Angel de La Fuente y Alfredo Sánchez-Toledo Ampliar foto A la enfermedad, se une la frustración ciudadana por los resultados de las elecciones donde se han detectado numerosos casos de fraudeMiguel Angel de La Fuente y Alfredo Sánchez-Toledo Ampliar foto El equipo de TVE ha regresado a Haití once meses después y su sensación es que se ha detenido el tiempoMiguel Angel de La Fuente y Alfredo Sánchez-Toledo Haití sigue temblando.
Once meses después del terremoto he vuelto a pisar las calles de Puerto Príncipe. Puede que once meses no sea suficiente para levantar un país, como los haitíanos esperaban y muchos se preguntan dónde está la ayuda internacional prometida. Haitian officials say national election a success | Seedol.com. Ans head to the polls in first election since massive quake. Poll workers sit idle next to ballot boxes after their polling station was closed down Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. NEW: 12 of the 18 candidates running for president allege widespread fraud at the pollsThe candidates say the vote should be annulledPolls closed Sunday on the fragile island nationVoters are struggling to overcome after-effects of the January quake and cholera epidemic Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Two-thirds of the candidates in Haiti's presidential race, including one of the front-runners, denounced Sunday's national elections and called for a complete annulment of the vote due to irregularities and ballot-box stuffing.
"I am asking my country's citizens, I am asking the Conseil Electoral Provisor, the government, and I'm telling the international community that as the leading candidate I'm asking for the formal cancellation of the elections," lead candidate Mirlande Manigat told CNN. Her campaign manager, Wimine St. Haiti holds 1st election since quake. PayPal 4 Haiti. Cholera spreads to Dominican Republic. Haiti: Frustration and Anger - 60 Minutes. Haiti cholera death toll tops 900. Haiti 'got very lucky' as Tomas skirted island. Cholera Death Toll Reaches 138. Security Council votes to keep UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year. When you have too much to say... TWITCHANGE Alyssa Milano Twitter Pkg @Alyssa_Milano - eBay (item 300466554090 end time Sep-25-10 10:08:01 PDT) MMRC. Paul Sebring in Haiti.
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