Haïti - high cost of living : Rnndh asks to change the economic orientation, out orders from the IMF and the World Bank
Posted on Friday
11 April 2008
Submitted to AlterPresse on April, 10 th, 2008 The Réseau national de défense des droits humains (Rnddh) acknowledges the large protest movement the Haitian people are conducting throughout the country to reclaim their right to eat and their right to access to the basic goods used every day. Rnddh considers this reclamation legitimate.
The right to eat is a fundamental right that any respectable government must guarantee for its citizens.
At the same time, Rnddh deplores that this protest (...)
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Haiti-Crisis : Three reporters injured while covering mass protests in Haitian capital
Posted on vendredi
11 avril 2008
News alert of Committe to Protect Journalist
Taken by AlterPresse from CPJ’s web site on April 11, 2008
Two Haitian reporters were injured by rubber bullets while covering clashes between protesters and Haitian and U.N. forces in Port-au-Prince Tuesday, according to news reports and interviews. A third journalist was wounded by pellets that were fired by protesters, a press advocate said. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Haitian and U.N. authorities to provide the (...)
A Review of Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood : Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment
Posted on lundi
31 mars 2008
By Michael Deibert
Submitted to AlterPresse on March 4, 2008
I. Introduction
In February 2004, a few days after the ouster of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide following months of massive protests against his rule and an armed rebellion of former soldiers and once-loyal street gangs, Peter Hallward, an academic working in the United Kingdom specializing in modern French philosophy, weighed in with his take on Haiti’s situation.
Writing from London, Hallward, who had never visited (...)
Caribbean-EPA : Citizens calling for full and public review of the Cariforum-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
Posted on lundi
21 janvier 2008
Caribbean-EPA : Citizens calling for full and public review of the Cariforum-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
A Caribbean citizen statement
Received by AlterPresse on 21 January 2008
We note with interest the recent statement by President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana in which he observed that the Caribbean stands to gain little from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) recently negotiated with Europe. President Jagdeo stated that the agreement was concluded against the backdrop of (...)
Human Rights Day 2007
WACC : “No human rights without communication rights”
Posted on Monday
10 December 2007
Haiti/Aids accusation : « Another hurricane »
Posted on Thursday
1 November 2007
Haiti : Risk, conflict and sustainable change
Posted on Friday
26 October 2007
A roadmap for a coordinated and integrated approach for the Caribbean islands
Posted on vendredi
24 août 2007
Haiti-USA-Music : The resurrection of the creole hip-hop movement
Posted on mercredi
8 août 2007
Haiti and CARICOM’s 20/20 Vision
Posted on Thursday
19 July 2007
Haiti : Brazilian social organizations demand the immediate departure of UN Troops
Posted on mercredi
4 juillet 2007
Latin-Americans, Caribbeans and Americans analyze the migration question at the regional level
Posted on jeudi
28 juin 2007
Haiti-United States/Tourism : Requests for a Reinforcement of Actions for Stabilization and against Violent Crimes
Posted on mardi
26 juin 2007
Haïti : René Préval at the United States-Caricom Summit in Washington
Posted on mardi
19 juin 2007
Haiti : Negotiations between the Government and the Public Transport Trade Unions
Posted on Tuesday
19 June 2007
