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Haiti: Grants to repay an odious debt ?

18 January 2010 - by Eric Toussaint, Sophie Perchellet

There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially (...)
Before and after the quake

The incapacitation of Haiti

17 January 2010 - by Ashley Smith

A devastating earthquake, the worst in 200 years, struck Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, laying waste to the city and killing untold numbers of people. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, and detonated more than 30 aftershocks, all more than (...)
International call. Solidarity and respect for Popular Sovereignty : Haiti is Calling

We encourage widespread circulation of this Call and invite all interested organizations to add their support and to share information about their solidarity actions by sending a messages to haiti at jubileesouth.org or the Jubilee (...)
International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt

Resolution of solidarity and support for the people of Haiti

Between August 15 and September 7, 2008, the Caribbean was severely hit by four successive hurricanes (Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike) that devastated several regions with disastrous consequences in particular for the peoples of Cuba, the Dominican (...)
PAPDA again calls for the unconditional cancellation of Haiti’s debt, and calls on the Haitian authorities to use the debt payments for the hundreds of thousands of victims of recent storms and floods

19 September 2008 - by Camille Chalmers

Port-au-Prince, 10 September 2008 - (AHP) - The secretary-general of the Haitian Platform to Advocate for Alternative Development (PAPDA), Camille Chalmers, has pleaded again for international donors to unconditionally cancel Haiti’s external (...)
International press

What the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Owe Haiti

5 August 2006 - by Dan Beeton

For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s “Heavily Indebted Poor Country” (HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may soon see some of its IMF and World Bank debt (...)
Haiti needs Freedom from Debt NOW

6 May 2005 - by Beverly Keene

Occupied militarily for more than a year now by a UN sanctioned “stabilization” mission, classified by the UN as a country in “rapid economic regression” with a “cuasi-failed state”, with some 80% unemployment and similar levels of illiteracy, water (...)
Initial considerations of the international fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haiti

12 April 2005 - by Collectif

The International Fact-finding and Solidarity Mission to Haiti, headed by Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of the May Square-Founders’ Line and composed of 20 representatives of social, cultural, (...)
Press Release

International fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haïti

4 April 2005 - by Jubilee South

Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of May Square-Founders’ Line, will head up an INTERNATIONAL FACT-FINDING AND SOLIDARITY MISSION TO HAITI, April 3 to 9. The Mission’s goal is to investigate the (...)
Haïti: the Priority of Debt Payment

3 March 2005 - by Camille Chalmers

PRESS RELEASE FROM PAPDA (Haitian Platform to Advocate for an Alternative Development) On 4 January 2005, the Interim Government of Haiti cleared US$ 52.6 million to the World Bank (or 1.946.200.000,00 Gourdes). You don’t need to be an expert (...)
The Dictatorship of Debt: The World Bank and Haiti

17 January 2005 - by Yves Engler

Last Thursday the World Bank announced it would release $73 million in cash to Haiti’s government of Gerard Latortue that was installed by foreign powers after elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from office. For Haiti to get the (...)
Haiti: A Development Plan written ’behind closed doors’

26 June 2004 - by Jane Regan

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun. 21, 2004 (IPS/GIN) — Haiti has a new development plan aimed at pulling the country out of its age-old economic, social and political morass with new roads and schools, policy changes and millions upon millions of donor (...)