It is important to understand the batey, a village of Haitian sugar cane cutters living in deep and unrelenting poverty in the Dominican Republic. It is a contrast as stark and vast as any on earth.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
The continuing magnitude of distress in Haiti should not fail to respect Haitians' fortitude. The destructive conditions which have weighed upon the vast majority of the Haitian people continue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
Marie Georges is a 45-year-old Haitian mother of six. Until the earthquake devastated her country one year ago, she ran a small business out of her ho...
David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011
Moments before he accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award from his lovely friend and former hospital co-worker Julianna Margulies, George Clooney proved once and for all what a truly great humanitarian he is.
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 05.25.2011
Six months after the earthquake, the plan for a "New Future for Haiti" (a "Haitian-led" effort being funded under World Bank oversight, through a commission whose members include only seven Haitians) seems remote indeed.
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — At a money-transfer booth tucked into a dusty TV repair shop, Haitians carrying thin envelopes of $5 and $10 bills clamore...
Washington Post | Amy Goldstein and Peter Whoriskey | Posted 05.25.2011
From morning until night, Dieula Celestin's cellphone rings in Miami's Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Princ...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered nothing splashy in a reserved "state of the city" speech Wednesday, saying his third term wo...
Margaret Aguirre | Posted 05.25.2011
Once the immediate emergency is over, another will begin -- rebuilding and getting Haiti's health care infrastructure back on track so they can care for themselves again.
Bessie A. Winn-Afeku | Posted 05.25.2011
Women and children are the most vulnerable in the wake of the catastrophe, and almost half of the population in Haiti is comprised of children.
Adolf Alzuphar | Posted 05.25.2011
I am, like most of the diaspora, a student who sought a better life because Haiti was in ruins. But I always looked back to ask: what was to become of my country?
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011
"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 05.25.2011
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Rescuers searched by sea and air Tuesday for nearly 70 Haitians after an overloaded sailboat ran aground and ...
WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011
Imagine you have no birth certificate, no passport and no legal rights. You're trapped in the country where you were born, but no document indica...
Miami Herald | Posted 05.25.2011
Haiti's newest envoy made his first pitch on behalf of the impoverished Carribbean nation Monday, outlining an ambitious list of priorities he plans t...
Huffington Post Contributors | Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltram | Posted 05.25.2011
By Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltrami Gertha Brice shielded herself from the rain beneath a narrow awning in East Flatbush. Sunday services had just ...
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 05.25.2011
MIAMI — Searchers racing to find more survivors from an overloaded boat that sank off Florida expanded their target area farther north over the ...
WorldFocus | Posted 05.25.2011
The small island nation of Haiti relies heavily on food imports, but with prices soaring, some Haitians are resorting to eating mud. The cookies --...
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's electoral council has barred members of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's popular political party from r...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011
The safety of U.S. food depends starts with the farms where our food is grown. Last month, congressional hearings on America's largest salmonella out...
John J. Powers | Posted 05.25.2012