CNN: Stephen Lewis is the former deputy executive director of UNICEF and the former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. He co-directs AIDS-Free World, a global advocacy organization working to address the underlying causes of HIV and AIDS. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. (CNN)For years the United Nations denied bringing...
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At a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) this week, international diplomats had the chance to send a clear message to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that his authoritarian rule must end. However, despite a proposal urging Maduro to scrap his plans to re-write the Venezuelan constitution receiving the support of 20 major countries,...
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Haiti Libre: Following the incidents of 12 June at the Faculty of Ethnology, where a student was overthrown by a vehicle driven by Dean Yves Blot, the Rectorate of the State University of Haiti (UEH), is urgently calling for decency and restraint around the state of health of the victim John Rock Gourgueder Jean,...
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BY ADOLFO PÉREZ ESQUIVEL, JODY WILLIAMS, SHIRIN EBADI, RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM, AND BETTY WILLIAMS Seven years after its soldiers sparked the world’s worst cholera epidemic in Haiti, the United Nations is finally preparing to close its MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission there. As Nobel Peace laureates committed to the U.N.’s ideal of universal human rights, we...
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Derek Carr is an all-around good guy and $125 million isn’t going to change that. The 26-year-old quarterback discussed his plans to use his newfound fortune to help others during the press conference Friday announcing his recent extension. “The exciting thing for me, money-wise, honestly, is this money is going to help a lot...
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riday, President Jovenel Moïse, in the presence of Carmel André Belliard, the Minister of Agriculture, parliamentarians of the Artibonite, the departmental delegate, entrepreneurs and notables met at Pont Sondé, the owners and representatives of mills of the Artibonite. This meeting was to ascertain from the mill owners that the amount of rice production, likely...
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The Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations Sacha Sergio Llorenty Soliz holds a joint press conference at the Haitian National Palace with the Haitian Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Aviol Fleurant. Photo: UN Photo/ Logan Abassi ` 23 June 2017 – The United Nations Security Council on Thursday began a three-day visit...
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On Thursday, a new variety of maize seed called “Hugo Plus” was introduced at the Bas Boën Rural Development Center (Latremblay 17, Route de Malpasse Ganthier). With the support of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the “Feed the Future Haiti Chanje Lavi Plant” project has launched the distribution of 30 metric...
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The Commissioner of Petion-ville, Jean Christian Monélus confirmed the arrest early Thursday of 2 individuals wanted for 6 months, identified as Nickenson Remy, aka Sonson” and Jean Wisky Emile, aka “Anbilans” accused of having participated with 3 other accomplices in the gang rape of a 16-year-old minor in January 2017, the two individuals allegedly...
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Le doyen de la Faculté d’ethnologie (FE), Jean Yves Blot, accompagné du professeur Jhon Picard Byron, a apporté lors d’une conférence de presse au local du rectorat de l’Université d’État d’Haïti (RUEH), ce jeudi, sa version de l’incident qui avait eu lieu dans l’enceinte de cette entité de l’UEH le lundi 12 juin dernier....
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Thousands of textile workers in Haiti have stopped work in factories and taken to the streets to demand of improved working conditions in the country’s maquiladora export industry. For more than three weeks, workers have mobilized to demand higher wages, an eight-hour workday and protections against increased quotas across the industrial centers of Port-au-Prince,...
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Josette Sheeran who formerly led the U.N. World Food Program as his special envoy for Haiti with a mandate to raise money for a trust fund to help victims of a cholera outbreak that has afflicted over 800,000 people. Guterres announced Tuesday that Sheeran, who heads the Asia Society,...
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For more than a decade, the United Nations has established a peacekeeping mission in the country, one of the longest-running in the world. In October, that will come to an end. Their presence has been controversial because U.N. peacekeepers face accusations of sexual abuse. Some of those claims come from teenagers who will bear...
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Guy Philippe, a former police commander who eluded capture in Haiti for more than a decade even as he won a seat in the Haitian Senate, was sentenced to nine years in prison in Miami federal court Wednesday for accepting bribes to protect cocaine smugglers who used the island to ship drugs to the...
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FILE – In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Guy Philippe laughs during an interview in Pestel, Haiti. Philippe, a former Haitian rebel leader and recently elected member of the Senate in the Caribbean country, was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison Wednesday, June 21, 2017, after accepting a plea deal that spared...
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What It Means for the Country’s Future By Michael Deibert Under an ash gray sky threatening rain this past April, dozens of people in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cité Soleil (Sun City) gathered across the street from the local police station to survey a flat patch of earth where goats normally graze. As surveyors...
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UN Security Council visits Haiti ahead of peacekeeper departure Port-au-Prince (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council began a visit to Haiti on Thursday to assess the poorest country in the Americas three months before ending its 13-year peacekeeping mission there. The delegation will meet President Jovenel Moise as well as representatives of civil...
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RENTON, Wash. — Defensive end Cliff Avril took a seat on the couch outside the Seattle Seahawks‘ locker room, started scrolling through his Instagram account and took a moment to reflect. “This is crazy,” Avril told ESPN.com. “I’ve been to a lot of places since the season ended.” Avril, 31, has been one of...
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told President of the Senate of Haiti Youri Latortue during a reception in Hanoi on June 20 that the Vietnamese Government wishes to push forward practical and effective ties with the Haitian Government. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) meets President of the Senate of Haiti Youri Latortue Phuc...
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(Photo: Submitted) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE Rockland advocates are warning Haitians who arrived after the devastating 2010 earthquake that they have just weeks to re-register for a federal program granting them the right to stay in the United States until January 2018. Temporary Protected Status designation, or TPS, was granted to Haitians following the earthquake, which claimed more than 200,000 lives....
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