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The Minimum Wage and the Coup in Honduras

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Labor, Minimum Wage, Employee Free Choice Act, Manuel Zelaya, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, Honduras, Obama Administration, World News
Robert Naiman

By its failure to help restore Honduran President Zelaya, the Obama Administration is helping to drive down the minimum wage in Honduras, Haiti, and throughout the world.

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Fractured Paradise: Four Days in Haiti

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Yele Haiti, Development, Investment, Social Entrepreneurship, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, World News
Cameron Sinclair

Last week I traveled to Haiti to see if my organization could provide design and building services for a couple of projects. What I found was a country very different from what was reported in the media.

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"Generation 3.0" of Intervention in Haiti: What Is Bill Clinton Doing on the Island Anyways?

Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton Haiti, Haiti Poverty, United Nations, Bill Clinton, Haiti, World News, Minustah, World News
Salena Tramel

Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by internal instability, the biggest scandals of all have external origins. Just ask the Haitians.

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Haitian Shipwreck: Hopes Dim For Missing Victims

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ and JENNIFER KAY | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Haiti Ship, Haitian Shipwreck, Turks and Caicos, Haiti Crash, Haiti, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands, Haiti News, Haitian News, World News

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — There was no warning when the overloaded sailboat plowed into a coral reef and began to break apart. In the darkness, some ...

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Bill Clinton, Haiti Envoy, Makes First Visit

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Bill Clinton Haiti, Haiti, Haiti Poverty, United Nations, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmenta...

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Honduras Coup

Stan Goff | Posted 07.29.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras, Coup, Haiti, Venezeula, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras Coup, Honduras, Coup, Honduras Coup, Stan Goff, Honduras Coup Soa, What Really Happened in Honduras?, Why the Honduras Coup, Hoduras Coup, World News
Stan Goff

Outside of the direct actors, we don't know exactly what just happened in Honduras. But the spinning will start soon.

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Stateless People Number Up To 15 Million People Worldwide (AUDIO)

WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Julia Harrington, Jews, Citizenship, Dominican Republic, Bill Berkeley, Ben Piven, Tutsi, Gaza, Dawn Calabia, Foreign Affairs, Palestine, Lisa Biagiotti, Adam Hussein Adam, Haitians, Stateless to Statehood, Barack Obama, Adam Hussein, Tune In, Roma, Human Rights, Samira Trad, Haiti, Statelessness, Tutsis, Weekly Webcast, Europe, Katie Combs, Stateless People, Advocacy, Nubians, Audio, World News
WorldFocus.org

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...

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Congress, the F-22 and the Monkey on Our Back

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, F22, Barney Frank, Addiction, Senate Armed Services Committee, Army Rangers, Taxpayers, Air Force, Gallup, New Mexico, House Armed Services Committee, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bosnia, Alcoholism, Haiti, Veto, Somalia, Defense Spending, Transparency, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

Anybody who has lived with an addict knows about denial. So it goes with Congress and defense spending. Case in point this week is the F-22, a gold-plated Cold War barnacle.

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Bill Clinton, Haiti Envoy, Makes First Pitch For Troubled Nation

Miami Herald | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Haitian Democracy, Latin America, Bill Clinton United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Haiti, Bill Clinton Haiti, Haiti Poverty, Haitian Immigrants, Haitians, World News

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...

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Traveling as Press vs. NGO Head: Same Adventure

Jim Luce | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Europe, Lome, United Nations Department of Public Information, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, Sri Lanka, Galle, Air France, South America, Asia, Ngo, Guyana, Chennai, Dallas, Paris, Singapore, Peru, Indonesia, Port-Au-Prince, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Miami, Dominican Republic, Aceh, Dubai, Swine Flu, Mexico City, Journalist, Africa, Ghana, San Salvador, Central America, International Development, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Haiti, Refugee Camps, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Tamil, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, Togo, Post 9/11, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Huffington Post, JFK Airport, Bangalore, Gonaives, Bucharest, Media News
Jim Luce

I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.

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Full Show: May 27, 2009

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Haiti, Peru, Pakistan, North Korea, Home News

Watch the show from Wednesday, May 27: Suicide blast in Pakistan, tough talk from North Korea, eating cookies made of mud in Haiti and whale hunters...

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Haitian Remittances Decreasing With Economic Struggle (AUDIO SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post Contributors | Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltram | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Video, World News, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Haiti, Haitian Remittances, Slideshow, Haitian Americans, Haitian Immigrants, Haitians, Advocacy, World News

By Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltrami Gertha Brice shielded herself from the rain beneath a narrow awning in East Flatbush. Sunday services had just ...

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Endorsing a Haitian-American Candidate in Brooklyn

Jim Luce | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: West Indian Culture, Toussaint Family, Jimmy Toussaint, Tax Hikes, Charter Schools, Politics, Brooklyn, 45th District, Thought Leaders, New York City Council, Middle Class, Global Citizens, Haiti, New York City, Flatbush, Rick Perry, Politics News
Jim Luce

'The word "politician" is derogatory to me. I am running because I want to protect my community from politicians.'

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Bill Clinton Named As Haiti Envoy By UN Chief

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton UN Envoy, Bill Clinton, Un, Haiti, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former President Bill Clinton became the U.N.'s first special envoy to Haiti on Tuesday, bringing an unmatched combinati...

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Bleecker Street Bar Crawls for Kids in Cambodia and Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 06.18.2009 | Local

Read More: Thunder Jackson’s, Orphans International Tanzania, Scott Knoll, Northeastern University, Thought Leaders, Orphans International Haiti, Facebook, Haiti, Global Citizens, 1849 Bar, Bar Crawl, Elvis Presley, Lindsay Mure-O'Neill, Columbia University, The Cambodia Project, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Cambodia, Bleecker Street Bar, Wicked Willie’s, Orphans International Worldwide, Carleton College, Bleecker Street, Linda Stanley, Africa, Local News
Jim Luce

"Everyone can relate to Elvis and we hope to leverage this for great causes like Orphans International Haiti."

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Haitian Boat Capsizing Kills 9; 16 Rescued

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Haiti, Haiti Poverty, Haitian Immigrants, Haitians, Haitian Boat Capsize, Florida, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, World News

MIAMI — Searchers racing to find more survivors from an overloaded boat that sank off Florida expanded their target area farther north over the ...

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Swine Flu Fears: Haiti Rejects Mexican Aid Ship

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Swine Flu Fears, Swine Flu, Haiti, Mexico, Mexico Haiti, Haiti Poverty, Haiti Mexico Aid Ship, H1n1, Haiti Aid, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian officials rejected a Mexican aid ship carrying 77 tons of much-needed food aid because of "unfounded" swine flu ...

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Fonkoze: Haitian Diaspora Unites Across U.S.

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Anne Hastings, Overseas Remittances, Organized Poor, Thought Leaders, Western Union, Global Citizens, Jimmy Toussaint, Haitian Students Association of Long Island University, Jim Luce, Port-Au-Prince, Father Joseph Philippe, CNB New Jersey and UMASS, HEC Montreal, University of Massachusetts, Alianza International, Barbara Magnoni, University of Fondwa, Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad, Haitian Diaspora, Haitian American Business Network, Inter-American Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, “Dollars and Diaspora”, Haiti, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago., Katleen Felix, University of Montreal, Latin American & Caribbean Center, Jennifer Ching, National Association for the Advancement of Haitians, Youtube, Appleseed, Moneygram, Fonkoze, Haitian-American, World News
Jim Luce

"The Diaspora is the driving force for the economic development of the country, but in order to reach that objective, overseas Haitians need to be organized locally, state-wide, and nationally."

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Want to Fight Hunger? Empower Women and Prioritize Family Planning

Tod Preston | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Abortion, Starvation, Population Growth, Family Planning, Ethiopia, Abortion Debate, Overpopulation, Haiti, World News
Tod Preston

Ironically, family planning isn't seen as a sexy issue. And it wrongly gets mired in debates around abortion -- even though family planning reduces abortions.

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President Obama and the Americas: Beyond the Trinidad Summit

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Summit of the Americas, Mexico, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Colombia, Grenada, Brazil, Panama, Haiti, Argentina, Bolivia, World News
Abraham Lowenthal

Navigating the next stages in the U.S.-Cuba relationship will be complex, for both sides have to overcome years of distrust, mutual hostility and propaganda.

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Haiti Donors Conference: A New Paradigm or New Packaging?

Monika Kalra Varma | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Donor Conference, Ban Ki-Moon, World Bank, Imf, Hillary Clinton, Haiti, Idb, World News
Monika Kalra Varma

International leaders gathered in Washington, DC this past week to pledge assistance to Haiti through the Haiti.Now, the rhetoric of partnership with Haiti needs to be actualized.

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Why Countries Like Haiti Matter to the Well-Being of Everyday Americans

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Marshall Plan, Illegal Drugs, Third World, Deforestation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Breaking News, Immigration, International Security, Development, Un, International Republican Institute, Economic Development, Haiti, Barack Obama, World News
Robert Creamer

The world economy is not a zero sum game. For us to be richer, someone else doesn't have to be poorer. In fact just the opposite is true.

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Top 5 Easter Traditions From Around The World

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Easter Saturday, Easter Holiday, Holidays, Easter Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, Catholicism, Easter Sunday, Bermuda Kites, Holy Week, Bermuda, Norway, Good Friday, Easter Traditions, Jesus Christ, Haiti, Easter Holy Week, Jesus, Christianity, Europe, Sweden, Easter Fires, Easter Traditions Around the World, Traditions of Easter, Easter Celebration Around the World, Easter Monday Traditions, Easter Sweden, Fun Easter Traditions, Easter Photos Around the World, World News

Easter is upon us! Easter Week began this past weekend with Palm Sunday and culminates in weekend commemorations of Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Eas...

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