Built for 200 inmates, the prison currently houses over a thousand, mostly men, although there are also separate compounds for minors and women. It received just 1,000 liters of piped water a day, barely a liter per person for drinking, cooking and washing.
Wynn Walent | Posted 05.09.2012
I have spent the last two years in Haiti, and the sound of rain is forever changed. Where the sound of rain once brought comfort, it now brings worry that comes with my intimate knowledge of what rain means these days in Haiti.
Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.02.2012
Baseball in the Time of Cholera started out as a film about Haiti's first little league team but soon took on international importance as a cholera epidemic infected over 500,000 Haitian people.
Mark Schuller | Posted 04.13.2012
This Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum, who had given Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney a serious run for his money, bowed out of the race, leaving th...
AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 04.03.2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Na...
New York Times | Deborah Sontag | Posted 04.02.2012
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Abby Goldberg | Posted 04.16.2012
On Monday, the United Nations Security Council began a four-day mission in Haiti to evaluate their peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts. Part of their trip will include a visit to a treatment center for victims of cholera. A visit is a good start, but not enough.
Karen Curley | Posted 03.19.2012
Accra is the capital of Ghana and is a modern city, yet there is garbage all over. There are many reasons for this.
Bed-Stuy Patch | Posted 01.13.2012
It’s been more than 35 years since Marie-Yolaine Eusebe and her family emigrated from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the United States. ...
AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 01.09.2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A mentally ill man who bathed in and drank from a contaminated river most likely was the first person to be infected in the C...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.18.2012
The United Nations is faced with two substantial legal petitions on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The actions could not be more different in their demands, tone, jurisdictions and venues.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.31.2012
Are Fonkoze and Mercy Corps unwittingly helping major stockholders in the reinsurance firm Swiss Re turn Haitian women into Buffett's "girl(s) in the convertible?"
AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 01.08.2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A human rights group said Tuesday it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more than 5,0...
AP | Posted 12.21.2011
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of cholera cases in Haiti is expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 2011. The U.N. hea...
AP | Posted 12.11.2011
GENEVA -- The U.N. children's agency says almost 2,500 people have died in one of the biggest cholera outbreaks western Africa has ever seen. UNICEF ...
AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 12.11.2011
By TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in ...
AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 12.10.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in recent weeks, an official with a foreig...
Rebecca Snavely | Posted 11.28.2011
The john, the loo, the WC, the great white throne -- for as many loving nicknames with which we've labeled the toilet, we likely take ours for granted.
Michael Deibert | Posted 08.24.2011
So the country, where an estimated 634,000 survivors of the quake still live in makeshift settlements in and around the capital, remains without a government.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.30.2011
As cholera continues to ravage parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America -- reportedly reaching Puerto Rico and Hong Kong this week --...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.13.2011
The OCHA Haiti Flooding Situation Report covering the period from June 6-7 does not paint a pretty picture. This grim report was to be anticipated gi...
Mark Schuller | Posted 08.10.2011
The rain is adding fuel to an open flame of cholera. Health experts are registering an increase in cholera cases; in Carrefour, the cholera clinic saw an average of 300 per day this week, when it had been 300 cases per week.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.02.2011
In this age of public relations ploys masquerading as news, and personal and political agendas disguised as newsworthy "leaks," it is imperative that readers, writers, and editors apply critical thinking before jumping onto the information bandwagon.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.04.2011
If indeed the US troops are in Haiti for "humanitarian reasons," there is plenty for them to do before the hurricane season begins.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
For Haiti, it might not matter who wins the presidency, but how the new president will address the mammoth challenges facing the nation.
Caroline Gluck | Posted 05.21.2012