Haiti Reborn works in the United States to support just U.S. policies toward Haiti and partners with Haitian grassroots development organizations, including a reforestation program in Gros Morne, and the Haiti Response Coalition.
The Board of Trustees of the Quixote Center, in Brentwood, MD, has agreed in principle to a merger of its Haiti Reborn program with KONPAY, a non-profit group dedicated to Haitian solutions to environmental, social and economic problems.
Fritz Gutwein, a co-director at Quixote, and long-time...
NOW: Fight in Haiti, Rich Against Poor
A friend with the Haiti Response Coalition is sending out an alert about a serious situation going on Monday night in the damaged land:
Testimony Details Haiti Aid Challenges, Presses for Commission Investigation:
(Washington DC, March 23, 2010)—Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) should respect Haitians’ human rights in their post-earthquake assistance to Haiti, said experts from several prominent organizations...
Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti the Quixote Center has been working closely with the newly formed Haiti Response Coalition. Within days the HRC was able to get supplies and medical teams in Jacmel ahead of much larger NGOs and developed a distribution system in Port-au-Prince (PAP)...
Our friends at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti have made another video about camp conditions in Port-au-Prince. This one features interviews with women who have been raped in the camps. There is also a petition to sign expressing concern about the inadequate response to the sexual...
Sign this petition at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Tell the powers that be that better aid distribution and transparency is needed in Haiti.
Note: Ruth, an organizer with the Haiti Response Coalition, a group of progressive NGOs including Quixote, Konpay, Beyond Borders and others, is profiled in this piece.
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By Reed Lindsay
This article appeared in the March 29, 2010 edition of The Nation.
March 11, 2010, Port-...
IQALUIT, Canada (Reuters) – Group of Seven countries have told earthquake-ravaged Haiti that any debts it owes them needn't be repaid and international lenders should do the same, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Saturday.
"The debt to multilateral institutions should be forgiven...
