HAITI: As Aid Efforts Flounder, Haitians Rely on Each Other

The roof of Haiti's national penitentiary is missing. The four walls of the prison rise up and break off, leaving only the empty sky overhead.

U.S.: Obama Urged to Grant Haitians “Protected Status”

As U.S. and international relief efforts chugged toward Haiti Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced an immediate investment of 100 million dollars in the relief efforts underway following Tuesday's devastating earthquake.

LATIN AMERICA: From Peacekeeping to Humanitarian Relief in Haiti

Two planes from Brazil carrying 21 tons of food and water were to head to Haiti Thursday, as part of an air bridge to provide humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean island nation in the wake of the deadly earthquake that has claimed an untold number of lives.

HAITI: Agencies Scramble to Avert Worse Humanitarian Disaster

The enormous relief effort being mounted in Haiti since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled most of Port-au-Prince is facing a host of difficulties, including bottlenecks at the main airport and lack of heavy equipment to clear debris from streets and roads, aid officials say.

POLITICS: U.N. Faces Its Own Major Tragedy in Haiti

The major earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, causing death and destruction in the capital of Port-au-Prince, may also turn out to be a veritable disaster for the United Nations, which has over 9,000 personnel, including peacekeepers, international staffers and local civilians, scattered throughout the country.

HAITI: U.S. Residents Mount Humanitarian Aid

A group of Haitian American leaders, state and local officials met late Tuesday night to map out humanitarian relief efforts as the extent of the damage from a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti became clearer.

HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops

Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.

HAITI: Clinton Revives Modest Optimism for Island’s Economy

Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, "president of Haiti" and "viceroy".

HAITI: A Year After School Collapse, Parents Seek Justice

On the morning of Nov. 7, 2008 shortly after 10 a.m. as the second period was beginning, College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-storey cinderblock school in the Nerette neighbourhood of Petionville, fell in on itself.

HAITI: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist

Government authorities in Haiti face recent criticism over allegations that they continue to jail political dissidents.

HAITI: Export Workers Await Overdue Wage Increase

Following the recommendation of President Rene Preval, the lower house of the Haitian Parliament voted Tuesday to raise the minimum wage in the assembly sector from 1.29 dollars (70 gourde) to only 3.20 dollars (125 gourde) per day, rather than the 5.12 dollars (200 gourde) which had been demanded and passed.

HAITI: Aid Flowing, But Food Crisis Drags On

Though beleaguered with their own financial problems, donor countries say they are not planning to withdraw financial support for cash-strapped Haiti.

HAITI: Women "More Protected" to Report Sexual Violence

It has been five years since the U.N. sent peacekeepers to Haiti following the forced departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the country, while not in a state of war, remains one of the world's most unstable.

HAITI: "We Have Never Had Justice"

Amazil Jean-Baptiste remembers when they came to kill her son.

HAITI: Deportees from U.S. Face Culture Shock, Retain Hope

In the shadow of the Eglise Sainte Claire in the Petite Place Cazeau neighbourhood of Haiti’s bustling capital, Frantz Saintil is visiting his daughter and reflecting on the more than two decades he spent abroad before finding himself back in his native country of Haiti seven years ago.

Q&A: “The Elites Are Like a Huge Elephant Sitting on Haiti”

Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis assumed office in September 2008. Born in the southern city of Jérémie in 1947, she left Haiti with her family in 1964 following a pogrom by dictator François Duvalier against his perceived enemies in her town.

HAITI: Student Protests Rock State University

The National University of Haiti (UEH) has been gripped by crisis for the last two months, operating under the constant threat of student strikes staged to demand reinstatement of cancelled courses and an increase in the minimum wage.

HAITI: Recruiting Far and Wide for Great Young Minds

When Garry Delice arrives at St. Joseph, a public high school in rural Haiti, something’s amiss. The cinderblock building is full of students, but no teacher can be found. Young men and women are finishing exams, and the staff has already left for the day.

HAITI: Battered and Unready for Looming Storm Season

Haiti’s environmental degradation is a time bomb that needs urgent attention if the country is to preserve its already strained social and economic stability, says a new briefing from the International Crisis Group (ICG).

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/HAITI: Border Market Embodies Inequalities

Elias Pina sits in a fertile high mountain valley on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Twice weekly, the side streets fill with Haitians and Dominicans trading produce, used clothing, kitchen equipment and shoes.

HAITI: Hunger Still Severe on Food Riots Anniversary

A year after riots over soaring food prices in Haiti made headlines around the world, conditions for many in this impoverished country have only worsened.