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Photogalllery: Haiti - Focus on the elderly
Published May 7, 2010 - 7:59:30 AM
More than three months after the earthquake, aid workers say elderly people in Haiti are not receiving the attention they need. HelpAge International says special attention must be paid to older people -- not just to their health needs but also to the unique contribution they could make to the relief effort and society. Some 800,000 Haitians -- about 7 percent of the population -- are over 60; some 200,000 have been affected by the disaster, according to HelpAge.
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Haiti: hundreds of thousands still heavily dependent on aid
Published Apr 13, 2010 - 7:33:23 AM
Three months on, living conditions remain difficult for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Port-au-Prince, who are still dependent on international aid. Children who became separated from their parents when the earthquake struck are among the most vulnerable.
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Haiti: Dying to get out
Published Apr 8, 2010 - 6:55:14 AM
The US government allows foreign citizens into the US in significant numbers "for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit". In the past, the beneficiaries of this so-called "humanitarian parole" have been thousands of refugees from Indochina, Cuba and other countries during the cold war, most fleeing communist regimes.
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Three Months After Earthquake, More Children Have Chance To Return To Learning In Haiti
Published Apr 5, 2010 - 6:18:18 AM
Less than three months after a devastating earthquake shook their lives, many children in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, will begin their return to school today.
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WFP Launches Strategy To Bring Social Security And Stability To Haiti
Published Mar 30, 2010 - 8:32:18 AM
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that Haiti's human capital will have a major role to play in providing safety nets for the most vulnerable, boosting local agriculture production and supporting local markets throughout the entire country in the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquake.
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Refugees International: Haiti Donor Conference Should Place Civil Society Front and Center
Published Mar 30, 2010 - 7:38:00 AM
The Haiti Donors Conference this week will shape the lives of millions of Haitians and provide tangible contributions to the country's reconstruction and recovery from the devastating January 12th earthquake, Refugees International (RI) said today. Yet the reconstruction effort will only deliver real improvements and sustainable development if Haitian voices are heard loud and clear by donor nations.
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Haiti: Civil society wants bigger role in reconstruction
Published Mar 29, 2010 - 6:55:45 AM
As the Haitian government appeals for an estimated US$11.5 billion in recovery and development funding at a UN donor conference on 31 March, NGOs – through which 65 percent of current donor contributions are channeled - are looking for a more coherent role in rebuilding the country.
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Hundreds of Haitian families moved to first of new campsites -- UN
Published Mar 27, 2010 - 7:48:30 AM
Some 200 Haitian families have been moved into the first of an expected five transitional sites being set up to decongest spontaneous settlements of those left homeless by the 12 January earthquake, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today.
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Haiti: Children struggle in make-shift orphanage
Published Mar 22, 2010 - 7:16:04 AM
Mami George, a retired teacher, sits in a courtyard at the small orphanage she manages in San Marie, Port-au-Prince. The area, once home to 2,000 residents, now accommodates some 6,000 people who lost their homes in the January earthquake.
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UN official calls for some G8 funds to be directed towards Haitian recovery
Published Mar 17, 2010 - 6:48:02 AM
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for some of the $20 billion pledged last year by the world's biggest economies to help farmers in poor countries buffeted by the global recession to be directed towards Haiti as it recovers from January's catastrophic earthquake.
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Head of UN agriculture agency helps launch Haiti’s spring planting season
Published Mar 16, 2010 - 6:45:22 AM
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has helped kick off Haiti's spring planting season, distributing seeds, fertilizer and tools to farmers in a village near the epicentre of January's devastating earthquake.The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has helped kick off Haiti's spring planting season, distributing seeds, fertilizer and tools to farmers in a village near the epicentre of January's devastating earthquake.
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Visiting Haiti, Ban pledges that world will remain at its side
Published Mar 15, 2010 - 9:06:35 AM
Shelter remains the biggest and most urgent priority in Haiti, two months after it was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he visited the country for the second time since the disaster and stressed that the world has not forgotten its people's plight.
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Ban to visit Haiti on Sunday as post-quake relief efforts reach two-month mark
Published Mar 13, 2010 - 6:51:54 AM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a one-day visit to Haiti on Sunday, his second to the Caribbean country since the 12 January earthquake, his spokesperson announced today.
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Haiti: Don't forget the elderly
Published Mar 12, 2010 - 8:05:55 AM
Elderly people need more attention in the response to January's earthquake in Haiti and more appreciation of the role they can play in the relief effort, say aid workers.
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Haiti: HIV Risk and treatment amid the rubble
Published Mar 10, 2010 - 7:27:19 AM
In the aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 magnitude quake, one of the Caribbean's largest antiretroviral (ARV) programmes is struggling to resurrect itself from the rubble.In the aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 magnitude quake, one of the Caribbean's largest antiretroviral (ARV) programmes is struggling to resurrect itself from the rubble.
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Haiti: Women at risk in the camps
Published Mar 9, 2010 - 7:54:14 AM
Many women at the Jean-Marie Vincent site for displaced people (IDPs) in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince wash themselves inside their makeshift tents because the only alternative is to do so out in the open. Given the overcrowding and meagre security, this exposes them to the risk of attack or rape.
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Haiti: After the quake, the deluge
Published Mar 3, 2010 - 7:12:01 AM
Thirteen dead. Submerged houses. Fields and banana plantations waterlogged. Drowned livestock. Impassable roads. Fresh trauma for quake-displaced thousands. This is the plight of Les Cayes, a city on Haiti's south coast, after an unseasonal deluge. And hurricane season is not far off.
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UN Security Council: Better Shelter, Security Needed for Haiti Victims
Published Feb 20, 2010 - 6:43:53 AM
The United Nations Security Council should make improving the quality and security of camps for displaced victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake a top priority, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to the Council's member states. The Security Council is being briefed today on the humanitarian situation in Haiti by the UN emergency relief coordinator, John Holmes, and the head of the Peacekeeping Department, Alain Le Roy.
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Food crisis looms in rural Haiti
Published Feb 19, 2010 - 7:39:16 AM
More than a month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, FAO and the international humanitarian organization CARE have issued a joint alert over a national food crisis.
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Web-based information tool for food security for Haiti
Published Feb 15, 2010 - 7:23:06 AM
In the face of extreme food price volatility and food shortages in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake, FAO has developed an interactive tool to guide international agencies and NGOs involved in food security across the country.
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UN alarmed at lack of global support for Haiti’s immediate agricultural needs
Published Feb 13, 2010 - 7:10:20 AM
United Nations agencies voiced alarm today at the lack of global support for Haiti's immediate agricultural needs, such as seed and fertilizers to ensure food from the next planting season, while stressing that disaster mitigation techniques must figure fully in the country's reconstruction from last month's devastating earthquake.
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One month after the quake, UN officials in Haiti find picture becoming clearer
Published Feb 13, 2010 - 6:48:39 AM
One month after Haiti was torn apart by an earthquake, the scale of the disaster is still becoming apparent, the United Nations aid chief said today as he stressed that finding adequate shelter and sanitation remain the greatest challenges of the relief effort.
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Haiti earthquake one month on: Oxfam says ‘still a mountain to climb’ in Haiti
Published Feb 13, 2010 - 6:06:34 AM
International agency Oxfam warns today a Herculean effort is still needed if public health in Haiti is not to deteriorate. Time is pressing as there are only six weeks before the start of the raining season.
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OHCHR / UNHCR urge extending suspension of returns to Haiti
Published Feb 12, 2010 - 8:09:14 AM
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are jointly urging countries to suspend all involuntary returns to Haiti due to the continuing humanitarian crisis. While the international response to the disaster is well under way, assistance efforts and services have still to reach a significant portion of the affected population with many people still lacking basic amenities such as shelter, food, water and medical assistance.
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Haiti earthquake: displaced people urgently need shelter and sanitation
Published Feb 11, 2010 - 11:38:59 AM
One month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, tens of thousands are still living in the open air. The race is on to get everyone under cover before the rainy season starts in just a few weeks.
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Haiti: Funding gap for nutrition
Published Feb 9, 2010 - 6:27:31 PM
Donors have contributed just 6 percent of the funds sought for post-earthquake nutritional assistance to women and children in Haiti, according to the UN.
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Haiti: "The disabled risk becoming the forgotten ones," warns UN expert's committee
Published Feb 9, 2010 - 6:57:29 AM
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities urged Tuesday the Haitian Government, the international community, UN agencies and all humanitarian organisations in Haiti not to allow persons with disabilities to become "the forgotten ones during the emergency response and the reconstruction of the country."
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CARE Is Working to Prevent Sexual Violence in the Aftermath of Haiti Earthquake
Published Feb 6, 2010 - 6:25:57 AM
CARE is working to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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Independent UN expert urges immediate cancellation of Haiti’s external debt
Published Feb 4, 2010 - 8:55:47 AM
An independent United Nations human rights expert today called for the immediate cancellation of Haiti's external debt to allow it to recover from the devastating earthquake that struck the nation last month and move towards reconstruction.
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Haiti: Minimizing food aid mayhem
Published Feb 4, 2010 - 7:32:07 AM
As food distributions spread to more parts of Port-au-Prince, so have kilometre-long lines of hungry, at times angry, people pressed against various crowd-control barriers: ropes, a corrugated steel wall, an army platoon, even a hole in the ground. IRIN joined the line in various food distributions in and out of the city to ask people on both sides of these barriers: what's the best way to do this?
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