Haiti needs a change of heart among some of her small elite in whose hands real power in Haiti resides.
Laura Flynn | Posted 06.05.2011
For those who were asking if they could possibly go on struggling for change, Aristide's return is, at last, a taste of justice. For those sweltering in tents in the hot sun, this is a breath of hope.
Dyane Jean François | Posted 06.05.2011
This may be one most significant elections in the Haiti's history. Visibility was especially important in this election because on paper the two candidates are rather similar.
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 06.01.2011
When will Haitians get an apology for the brutal regimes that foreign governments have imposed on their country?
Wyclef Jean | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the many stories about my wound on the eve of the Haitian election, the story shouldn't be about my hand.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011
Peacekeepers and observers may produce fairer elections in Haiti -- but education is the first step towards democracy.
Democracy Now! | Posted 05.25.2011
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman was able to interview Aristide hours before he was to arrive in Port-au-Prince. This is an excerpt of the exclusive interview:
Nicole Skibola | Posted 05.25.2011
Why aren't we outraged that the United States and the OAS pushed for the adoption of election results that many have deemed fraudulent?
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Protesters enraged by the results of Haiti's troubled presidential election set barricades and political offices ablaze,...
AP | JACOB KUSHNER | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Frustrated presidential candidates led a march through Haiti's capital Thursday to demand officials annul an election th...
Laura Flynn | Posted 05.25.2011
For the veterans of this struggle to have to watch Jean-Claude Duvalier return a free man to the scene of his crimes now was excruciating.
Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011
Satisfying basic needs is then the best weapon of a despotic government. People living in violence and poverty will accept many things if they are promised security and food.
Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011
How do we seize initiative in a country that knows only trauma and deception? There's no right answer. But actions that build confidence would be a big first step.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011
To fail to act in the interests of the majority of Haitians, with the argument that a new election would be too costly, would be "penny-wise, pound foolish." It's worth $30 million to protect $11 billion.
Margaret Aguirre | Posted 05.25.2011
When cases of cholera began to emerge in late October, it would prove much more difficult to sound the alarm that a new catastrophe was in our midst and demanded our attention.
Mark Schuller | Posted 05.25.2011
This summer I conducted a study of a random sample of over 100 camps in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. How much progress has been made since August? In short: almost none.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011
If you were a Haitian voter whose vote belonged OAS team sample, your vote will be treated differently than if your vote did not belong to that sample. This was the grounds on which the Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
When Brazilian diplomat Ricardo Seitenfus was abruptly ousted as special representative of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Haiti on Christmas day, timing proved to be everything.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
What was Bill Clinton thinking when he told journalists in the Dominican Republic yesterday that Haiti needed "an objective" recount of ballots in the...
Sheldon C. Good | Posted 05.25.2011
The protests are only an expression of the Haitian people who feel their voice has been stolen, along with an election. And so I protest too. Our government must assist in reviewing the fraud.
Pascal Robert | Posted 05.25.2011
In Haiti, governments are known to function in several ways, most of them to the detriment of the Haitian people.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011
At mid-morning on Election Day, Iman sat cross-legged outside her tent in a refugee camp in Hinche, Haiti, hunched over a bowl of beans. When asked if she would vote, she chuckled, rolled her eyes and continued opening the pods with her fingers.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011
The flawed election, ignoring warnings about the electoral council, and the lack of honesty about and accountability for the cholera outbreak, suggest it is high time to turn a new page in US relations with Haiti.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
During a forty-minute interview, Haitian presidential candidate Michel Martelly discussed the election, the results of which are to be announced today by the country's Permanent Electoral Council.
Emily Schmall | Posted 05.25.2011
Pius Kamau | Posted 08.06.2011