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Uloop: Being a Haitian College Student in America

2012-05-22T19:03:16Z

This adjustment started at the peak of my adolescence, when I moved to the U.S. After introductions, I had to explain who I was and why I didn't fit their expectation of a Haitian girl. I'm often referred to as the "white Haitian" or the "light-skinned chick."

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Susan Wile Schwarz: Love in the Time of HIV

2012-05-21T15:38:17Z

Today's children, even in the rural reaches of Haiti, are well versed in HIV prevention and the use of condoms. In a society of women relatively unafraid to assert themselves but plagued by unfaithful husbands, how useful is this education?

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Americans Jailed In Haiti For Conspiracy

2012-05-20T12:34:53Z

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two Americans jailed in Haiti were charged with conspiracy for participating in a street march that pressed for the retu...

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Sean Penn Shines Spotlight On Haiti At Cannes Film Festival

2012-05-18T17:07:15Z

CANNES, France — Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged ...

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Haiti To Clean Up With Waste-To-Energy Plant

2012-05-17T16:41:17Z

By Earthtechling's Julie Mitchell:

Ever since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the country has suffered from a severe sanitation crisis....

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Jim Luce: At Cipriani: 2012 Women Refugee Voices of Courage

2012-05-14T13:31:42Z

This year, a luncheon hosted by the Women's Refugee Commission focused on the need to protect and empower displaced adolescent girls -- one of the most vulnerable groups within a refugee setting.

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Adriana Lima: St. Damien's: A Mother's Story

2012-05-12T17:58:05Z

After meeting the Haitian leadership at St. Damien's and St. Luke's Hospitals, I can tell you first hand that there is a great deal to be hopeful about in Haiti.

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Haiti's Hidden Treasure

2012-05-12T08:12:20Z

TROU DU NORD, Haiti -- Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land...

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Michael Trainer: Why I'm Living on $1.50 a Day

2012-05-11T14:29:55Z

Today I am living on $1.50 for all of my food and drink costs. Why? Because 1.4 billion people around the world don't have the option, and because I want to support a friend who showed me how to be a better man, a more gracious leader, and a more inspired human being.

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Jeroen Swolfs: WATCH: A Homecoming And A New Friend In Haiti

2012-05-11T07:00:00Z

It turned out that Carnival was just about the most dangerous time to go downtown.

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Soraya Chemaly: Worldwide, It's "More Dangerous to Be a Woman Than a Soldier in Modern Wars"

2012-05-10T16:50:43Z

Rape, invisible and ubiquitous, is perceived as sexual and inevitable, and we tend to think of children and women as collaterally damaged during war. In truth, all over the world, girls and women are fully, bodily engaged in conflict.

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Marcia G. Yerman: Dayle Haddon: 'Giving Back Makes Me Feel Young And Beautiful'

2012-05-09T09:33:00Z

Dayle Haddon, a top model in the 70s and 80s, was 38 when her husband died unexpectedly. Left without an economic base or source of income, she tried to go back to the world of fashion and beauty, and was succinctly told that she was "over the hill."

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Wynn Walent: Haitian Mothers and the Meaning of Rain

2012-05-08T19:18:53Z

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.

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Alyson Renaldo: Discussing Haiti... With a Haitian

2012-05-02T15:10:49Z

How is 'need' and 'sustained recovery' being assessed if not through continuous dialogue with the injured group, in this case Haitian people and its governance?

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Cynthia Ellis: Interview: Olivia Wilde Produces Baseball in the Time of Cholera

2012-05-02T09:38:26Z

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.

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Deji Olukotun: A Bold New Literary Festival in Haiti

2012-04-30T15:49:42Z

Two years after Georges Anglade's death, PEN Haiti announced its re-emergence on the international literary scene with full fanfare last weekend.

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Ingrid Arnesen: Despite Rape and Abject Poverty, Haiti's Women Hold the Power for Change

2012-04-27T12:35:07Z

The fight for women's rights has been a long struggle in Haiti. Until seven years ago, rape wasn't even punishable by law. It wasn't a crime until some very brave Haitian women won the battle in 2005.

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Dr. Jane Aronson: Creole Lessons

2012-04-26T16:07:51Z

I remember thinking that I loved the Creole language and found it whimsical in sound, and warm, loving and childlike in meaning.

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Jim Luce: Film on Haitian Art: In the Eye of the Spiral

2012-04-26T16:32:30Z

We believe that the art of this nation can be the catalyst to begin a positive and expanding spiral for the people of Haiti. I believe in Haiti. I deeply admire its people and have great respect for its artists and intellectuals.

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Michael Deibert: After Charles Taylor, Justice for Haiti?

2012-04-26T14:06:39Z

It is time that the government of Haitian president Michel Martelly and Haiti's parliament ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and give the victims of Haiti the justice that they have so long been denied.

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Sean Penn Earns Big Award For Work In Haiti

2012-04-25T15:38:53Z

CHICAGO — Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn gave an emotional speech Wednesday urging the world community to help Haiti as he accepted an award from...

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Dr. Jane Aronson: Haiti Journal #3 -- The Highs and Lows of Fieldwork

2012-04-25T15:27:28Z

Everyone was astonished by the condition of both buildings from the earthquake ... and the tent camps that still remain in the main square.

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Sean Penn: I'm In Haiti For The Long Haul

2012-04-24T12:27:00Z

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no long...

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Dr. Jane Aronson: Haiti Journal #2: A Visit to Our Toy Library and the Problem of Social Orphans

2012-04-24T11:28:12Z

The vast majority of orphans in Haiti (and most likely in the rest of the world) are social orphans: their parents are alive, but for many reasons, they are not raising their children.

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Dr. Jane Aronson: Haiti Journal #4 - Culture, Literacy and Medicine

2012-04-23T18:29:47Z

In Haiti, store signs are symbols or photographs, not words. That's because few Haitians read anything except the Bible.

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