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  • Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe Signs MOUs for increased trade and collaboration with Brazil
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe leaves Brazil's capital city today following two days of meetings focused on strengthening ties with Brazil and ...

  • Haiti's Prime Minister Initiates Brazil visit to promote investment opportunities
    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe arrived in Brasilia today at the beginning of a week-long trip whose main goal is to deepen ties with the government ...

  • Lens: Vlad Sokhin's Photos of Haiti's Child Servants
    Haiti is estimated to have 250,000 restaveks — children working as unpaid servants after their parents, who cannot afford to raise them, give them away.        

  • Best books on Haiti
    The novelist chooses the books that best explain a fascinating, baffling, tumultuous country My first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At the time, it seemed that Haiti was on the cusp of a new era. "We are learning to live in the world again," as President Aristide said, reflecting on ...

  • Haiti Relief Jam II in the suburbs on June 2
    Brian Reynolds of Arlington Heights has pulled together Haiti Relief Jam II, and it's set to roll on June 2. He hopes the Relief Jam will raise both awareness and funding for their next series of mission trips to Haiti.

  • Haiti trip an eye-opener for Pitt athletes
    Trip to Haiti and dealing with malnourished, impoverished children makes major impact on 16 Panthersathletes.

  • Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital.

  • The Government of Haiti Streamlines Disbursement of Reconstruction Funds
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At the opening ceremony of the first meeting of the Committee on Coordination of External Aid for the Development of Haiti (CAED), Prime Minister Laurent ...

  • Lawyers: Haiti cholera lawsuit threatened at UN
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera victims, apologize to the Caribbean nation for introducing the disease through its peacekeeping force, and launch a major effort to improve sanitation.

  • Haiti cholera victims may sue the UN
    Victims of Haiti's ongoing cholera epidemic give the United Nations a 60-day deadline to start talks about billions of dollars worth of compensation or face legal action.