Haitian women were already marginalized before the earthquake. In the words of Edele, a feminist activist, "women are double victims. I mean, the justice system doesn't work for anyone."

AKOBO, Sudan — Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed, his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled, gaunt face resemblin...

Speaking about rebuilding Haiti's economy, Biotek Solutions CEO Regine Barjon summed it up by saying "We can grow our own chickens."

The humanitarian response to the Haitian earthquake is killing the demand for locally packaged goods and hurting small business owners.

Haitians aren't living in tent and bed sheet cities because there was an earthquake on January 12. This is the lifestyle one gets used to when elites and the Delatour/Preval lobby machine run the economy.

Just outside Kigali, in the central African country of Rwanda, Emmanuel Harelimana goes to work at a coffee roasting company. Set high on a hill, CAFE...

President Clinton apologized on March 10 for the role that his government played in destroying a big part of Haitian agriculture: "It may have been go...

(Originally published in The Hill newspaper) Spending a few weeks in Pakistan is a jaw-dropping experience. On a typical day, you can wake up to ...

After many months of drought the rain seems to be coming at the wrong time, too late to help farmers harvest crops. People were clearly getting nervous as newspapers predicting an entire week of rain.

Today's release of the Obama administration's Feed the Future implementation strategy will confirm what many in the global public health world have kn...

There is plenty of blame and criticism to go around, but that being said, the humanitarian situation in Haiti is so dire it seems as if there may be no comprehensive solution.

Take a walk for ten years in Rea Dol's shoes and you might learn something about the imperialist attitude of NGOs in Haiti. "They would not help me before the quake. Why would I bother to ask them now?"

Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...

The UN claims there is a siege on Gaza when it has given $200 million to the strip in the past year -- $190 million more than it has given to Haiti after the natural disaster there claimed the lives of an estimated 230,000.

Like many U.S. policy watchers, I have been reserving judgment on the administration's development policy while they staffed up and worked through the PSD and QDDR. But, at sixteen months and counting, I have a nagging question.

This is a joint posting with Sarah Jane Staats and also appeared on Global Post and CGD's Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog. In insider Washing...

Our view of Haiti is often constrained by an implicit binary frame of a "good" civil society and a "bad" state. Missing from this discussion is the central role played by foreign actors.

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but as important as this discussion of Haiti's future is, there is a more urgent situation that must be addressed right now. Any day now, it is going to rain.

Everyone who has visited since the earthquake reports stories of Haitians helping Haitians, despite the tragically inadequate response of the government and the international community.