The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in early January 2010 adds to the string of misfortunes in a country used to fighting adversity.
Haiti and Women's Rights: Historical Context
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its long struggle with debt, poverty, violence and women's rights violations has been deepened by the tragic earthquake of 12 January 2010.
Haiti and Women's Rights: Historical Context
Learning from Haiti
16 February 2010
By Ignacio Ramonet
As “natural” as it may seem, no catastrophe is natural. An earthquake of the same intensity has more victims in a poor country than in a rich industrialised one. For example, the earthquake in Haiti, 7.0 on the Richter scale, caused more than 200,000 deaths, while the one six months ago that struck Honshu, Japan, caused only one death and one injury though it was of the same strength (7.1).
Feminism in the Third World: Women in Haiti
21 January 2010
The token inclusion of Third World women in Western feminist discourse has long resulted in a global and cross-cultural homogenization of women's experience.
HAITI: Aid Flowing, But Food Crisis Drags On
02 August 2009
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2, 2009 (IPS) - Though beleaguered with their own financial problems, donor countries say they are not planning to withdraw financial support for cash-strapped Haiti.
Book Review: Walking on Fire: Haitian Women´s Stories of Survival and Resistance
13 February 2002
In "Resisting the Assassins' Power," Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman review this collection of interviews with women from Haiti.
Tribute to Haitian Feminist Myriam Merlet (video)
19 January 2010
Democracy NOW presents a tribute to Myriam Merlet (1953-2010), featuring Eve Ensler.
Country Without a Net
20 January 2010
Those who know a little of Haiti’s history might have watched the news last night and thought, as I did for a moment: “An earthquake? What next? Poor Haiti is cursed.”
For Ayiti (Haiti)
20 January 2010
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. ~ Edwidge Danticat
Earthquake in Haiti: A Reading (and Listening) List by Edwidge Danticat
20 January 2010
Edwidge Danticat, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and an Oprah’s Book Club author, is one of Haiti’s most acclaimed writers. The Miami-based author of such works of fiction as “Krik? Krak!” and “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” as well as a mini-essay for Speakeasy, has spent the last few days on the phone trying to locate family members in her earthquake-ravaged country.