Haiti-Housing: Organizations launch “lasting solutions” campaign for displaced people
Port-au-Prince, Oct 8, 2012 [AlterPresse] From July 2 until October 1, 2012, several national and international organizations launched an international campaign called under the tents, with the aim to ensure the [...]Haiti’s 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain
Like about 70 percent of Haiti’s refugee camps, the residents here are on their own. Apart from water deliveries, they get nothing from the government and the massive humanitarian apparatus on the ground. No food. No jobs. And no news about their future
Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again
Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again.”
Urgent Action Appeal, Haiti: Forcible eviction of peasant families, Artibonite
In 2004, 1200 Haitian peasant families were violently evicted from their lands in the Artibonite department. Today evicted families live in a precarious situation and do not have adequate housing or access to resources to feed themselves.