Q&A with Hamda Yusuf for the Seattle Globalist
Meet Hamda Yusuf: She’s 19, she’s a local slam poetry champion, and she wants to be the US ambassador to Somalia. At the Youth Speaks! Poetry Grand Slam last month, most of the poems performed…
Haiti Moves to Tighten Laws on Sexual Violence
Published the day before International Women’s Day last week by Inter-Press Service: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 7 2013 (IPS) – Haiti is poised to enact major reforms to its penal code to make it easier for victims…
The Uses of Paul Farmer: The Doctor and the Haitian Machine
Published by Counterpunch: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr. PORT-AU-PRINCE – Dr. Paul Farmer stood alone in a…
Three Years Later: Three Answers to Haiti’s Predicament
I wrote a guest post for the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s excellent Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch: 1. How would you describe the situation in Haiti today? “Peyi a vin kraze.” As Haiti…
Bill Clinton Admits the UN Introduced Cholera to Haiti
From my blog entry for the Pulitzer Center in March: In early March, Bill Clinton showed he is learning the lessons of Haiti’s man-made disasters. Far from natural byproducts of the nation itself, the widespread…
New Allegations of Sexual Exploitation Against UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
With the news this morning of new sexual exploitation allegations involving minors against UN peacekeeping personnel in Haiti, I wanted to flag this follow-up ABC News piece to the story we broke last September, published…
HAITI: Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile Factory Owners
Published today by Inter-Press News Service: PORT-AU-PRINCE (IPS) – Workers in Haiti’s apparel manufacturing sector charge that factory owners are repressing attempts to organise workers in the capital, after the dismissals of six of seven…
The Death of Gérard Jean-Gilles: How the UN Stonewalled Haitian Justice
Finally, this story is being published – the version below in Haiti Liberte today (French), another coming in The Nation magazine next week. Faced with growing outrage over an alleged sexual assault by UN occupation…
I penned a new WikiLeaks article, did some interviews, and got tear-gassed.
Here’s a round-up of some of odds and ends that I haven’t gotten around to posting until now. First, there’s this piece for Haiti Liberte: WikiLeaks Reveal: Expecting Civilian Deaths, US Embassy Approved of Deadly…
HAITI: United Nations Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women (with UN response)
I received this response from MINUSTAH spokeswoman Sylvie van den Wildenberg yesterday. Johnny Jones? 1 SEA ALLEGATION YOUNG GIRL PREGNANT OF AN URUGUAYN PEACEKEEPER (PIC STORY 7 SPET 2011) MINUSTAH is investigating on every serious…
