For information and analysis on relief efforts in Haiti, visit out our new blog: Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch.

In Focus

Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch recently looked at the third anniversary of the earthquake, which included updated statistics and posts from Haiti by CEPR International Research Associate Jake Johnston.

More Pressure Necessary to Get Desperately Needed Clean Water to Haiti
Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, December 12, 2012

The UN Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic, Now it Must End It
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2012

Reports

Breaking Open the Black Box: Increasing Aid Transparency and Accountability in Haiti

April 2013, Jake Johnston and Alexander Main

The Organization of American States in Haiti: Election Monitoring or Political Intervention?

October 2011, David Rosnick

Not Doing Enough: Unnecessary Sickness and Death from Cholera in Haiti

August 2011, Jake Johnston and Keane Bhatt

Obama’s Latin America Policy: Continuity Without Change
May 2011, Mark Weisbrot

Analysis of the OAS Mission’s Draft Report on Haiti’s Election
January 2011, Mark Weisbrot and Jake Johnston

Op-Eds & Columns

The U.N.’s Crimes Have Killed Thousands in Haiti – When Will They Pay?

Jake Johnston
Caribbean Journal, March 1, 2013

More Pressure Necessary to Get Desperately Needed Clean Water to Haiti

Mark Weisbrot
Al Jazeera English, December 12, 2012

The UN Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic, Now it Must End It

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2012

For-Profit Folly in Haiti: Development-Industrial Complex Can't Deliver Reconstruction After Earthquake

Jake Johnston
AlterNet, October 17, 2012

UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It Brought to Haiti

Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), August 9, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), August 9, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), August 9, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), August 9, 2012
Janesville Gazette (WI), August 9, 2012
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, August 9, 2012
Times of India, August 10, 2012
Fresno Bee (CA), August 11, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), August 11, 2012
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), August 12, 2012
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), August 13, 2012
Centre Daily Times (PA), August 13, 2012
Keene Sentinel (NH), August 14, 2012

Events

Haiti in 2012: Updates on the Recovery

Congressional Briefing on Cholera in Haiti, Co-sponsored by the O'Neill Institute and CEPR

Haiti Briefing: Haitian American Students Brief on IDP Camps

Accountability in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Reconstruction Failures and the U.N.'s Cholera Problem

Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake

CEPR: Haiti Events on the Hill, Jan. 24

Helping Haiti Rebuild with Dignity, Sovereignty and Justice

The Elections: Flawed Beyond Repair?

Whither Haiti after the Apocalypse? Responses to the Earthquake, the Cholera Epidemic and the Future

Media Briefing on Haiti's Elections

Press Releases

New Report on U.S. Aid to Haiti Finds “Troubling” Lack of Transparency, Effectiveness

April 3, 2013

UN Response to Haiti Cholera Complaint “Represents a Failure of the UN System,” CEPR Co-Director Says

February 21, 2013

Three Years Later, Haiti Still Struggling Due to Failures of International Community

January 11, 2013

Haiti-D.R. Cholera Eradication Plan “Welcome,” But Unclear Where Funding Will Come From, CEPR Co-Director Says

December 11, 2012

Cholera Infections Rising Again in Haiti as Rainy Season Begins, Highlighting Urgency for NGOs, Agencies to Redouble Their Efforts, CEPR Co-Director Says
April 3, 2012

Testimony

OAS: Economics, Democracy, Haiti
June 6, 2005, Remarks by Mark Weisbrot before the Organization of American States General Assembly, Meeting Between Civil Society Organizations, the Secretary General, and Heads of Delegations En español

Latest Press Hits

• Study Finds Most Haiti Aid Went to US Groups
  ABC News (AP), April 05, 2013


• U.S. Aid to Post-Earthquake Haiti a “Black Box”
  Inter Press Service, April 05, 2013


• Report Finds “Troubling” Lack of Transparency in US Aid to Haiti
  Caribbean Journal, April 04, 2013


• Haitian Sweatshops: Made in the U.S.A.
  Working (In These Times), March 21, 2013


• It's Time to Reform USAID
  Bloomberg Businessweek, March 18, 2013