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Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is a remarkable example of two countries with starkly different realities despite being geographically inseparable. From the lush, ...
T ucked away in a hillside garden a short walk from the restive heart of Port-au-Prince, the Hotel Oloffson was a strange kind of refuge. Through good years and a lot of bad ones, it stayed open to ...
The international news cycle proceeds at such a fast pace these days that we tend to miss some of the significant stories ...
The joint report was produced by the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. It notes that since last year there has been “a sharp increase in killings, ...
The United Nations has appealed to the international community to bolster its support for Haiti after a report revealed that ...
A Haitian woman living abroad denounces the detention of relatives over a land dispute, spotlighting Haiti’s broken cadastre and suspected land theft rings.
Agamise Cheranfant hides as soon as he finishes his work at a banana plantation in the Dominican Republic. Like many others, he is Haitian, undocumented, and lives in constant fear of deportation ...
Despite the U.N. arms embargo on Haiti, gangs continue to obtain more powerful weapons not only from regional civilian markets but from police stockpiles in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican ...
Haitians are facing historic levels of deportation from the Dominican Republic, an easy domestic political win. Can new voices shift the conversation?
The Trump administration is using Haiti’s “widespread” gang violence, along with the State Department’s recent decision to designate several of the country’s most powerful armed groups ...