Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A humanitarian agency in Haiti says the number of people still displaced by the earthquake three years ago is 320,050. That’s a 79 percent decrease since the number of people living in settlements after the quake peaked at 1.5 million a few months after the 2010 disaster. The International Organization of...
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Subodh Varma, TNN Apr 12, 2013, 06.36PM IST NEW DELHI: Ants know when an earthquake is about to strike, researchers have discovered. Their behavior changes significantly prior to the quake and they resume normal functioning only a day after it. Gabriele Berberich of the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany presented these findings on Thursday at...
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NY Times Editorial Board-Opinion section The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last Tuesday that the cholera crisis in Haiti was getting worse, for the most unnecessary and appalling of reasons: a lack of money and basic medical supplies. The disease has killed 8,000 people and sickened 649,000 since October 2010. International efforts to...
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Posted on April 11, 2013 by Nina Golshan-Washington Square News In the wake of the recent global recession, U.S. government spending on domestic and international projects is being pulled back in some areas and increased in others. The distribution of taxpayer dollars to foreign aid initiatives has been reduced by billions of dollars —...
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:18 GMT Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney A woman looks on at Camp Laiterie de Damien for internally displaced persons in Port au Prince, Haiti, on Aug. 26, 2012. Thousands of people remain homeless more than three years after a devastating earthquake. REUTERS/UN/MINUSTAH/Victoria Hazou/Handout BOGOTA (AlertNet) – The United States...
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 – By Jonathan M. Katz | Foreign Policy A U.N. independent expert on human rights in Haiti steps down after highlighting police torture and pervasive judicial corruption, deteriorating security, crackdowns on press freedom, and a general inadequacy on the part of Haiti’s leaders. AFP A Haitian boy searches for...
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Kevin Edmonds The Other Side of Paradise April 11, 2013 In the most trying of times, it is often said that it becomes much easier to tell real friends from the fake. Since the announcement by United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki Moon, claiming that the U.N. has legal immunity when it comes to...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) announce the launch of the Haiti/DR Disaster Mitigation Project, an innovative crisis and risk prevention intervention that melds high-technology innovation with low-technology solutions to reduce the impact of natural disasters on the communities of South East Haiti and the South...
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Updated April 10: Le premier ministre a répondu parfaitement à toutes les questions.Il a souligné que pour le present moment le pays est en chantier et concretement tout le monde le voit. Il a parlé des grands efforts que le gouvernement a fait pour diminuer presqu’au point zero les centres d’hebergement. Il a parlé...
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by Tambay A. Obenson April 9, 2013 1:38 PM For you folks in New York City… HCX | Haiti Film Fest 2013 will include the opening night celebration, an emerging filmmakers event and two full days of free films from contemporary Haitian filmmakers, films about Haiti’s Diaspora, as well as films from the beginning...
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