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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Wednesday that not enough has been done to prepare for the rainy season and the corresponding surge in cholera that is expected. The international humanitarian organization ...
22. Kolbe: Political and Social Marginalization Behind Increases in Crime
(Matching tags: security, minustah, human rights, aid, fanmi lavalas)
In early March, social scientists Athena Kolbe and Robert Muggah released a study, backed by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Igarapé Institute of Brazil, showing increasing crime ...
... UN stabilization mission (MINUSTAH) had “been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy.” Reuters also notes that: It was the first time that members of the U.N. military on ...
To mark International Women’s Day today, human rights groups and cholera victims are peacefully protesting “against the cholera and sexual violence that the UN and its peacekeeping mission, MINUSTAH, have ...
25. Bill Clinton Says MINUSTAH Soldier Introduced Cholera to Haiti
(Matching tags: minustah, ansel herz, cholera)
While the UN has long denied responsibility for introducing cholera to Haiti, the UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton acknowledged today that a MINUSTAH soldier introduced the deadly bacteria that has ...
... Haiti, or MINUSTAH.   The UN Secretary General, the U.S. government and other international actors have consistently sought to paint the military mission in a positive light, praising, in the words of ...
... assaults that UN troops have perpetrated against Haitians. A new ABC News article cites scientists as saying that there is “no doubt” that troops with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) ...
28. MINUSTAH by the Numbers
(Matching tags: minustah)
The United Nations Peacekeeping operation in Haiti, MINUSTAH by its French acronym, has been the target of recent popular protests and a source of controversy because of its role in re-introducing cholera ...
We have noted the many scandals that have dogged MINUSTAH’s presence in Haiti since the beginning to the most recent, which involve the video-taped rape of an 18-year-old man, and MINUSTAH troops having ...
In July, one Haitian fell ill with cholera every minute. In August, after the "second peak" from the May/June rains receded, that rate has slowed and yet still one Haitian falls ill every two minutes.  ...
... forces who participate in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Journalist Ansel Herz, reporting from Port Salut, uncovered a disturbing scene recorded on a cell phone video, showing ...
A January 2006 cable recently made available by Wikileaks describes Haitian business leaders’ efforts to pressure MINUSTAH to crack down on slums, in particular Cite Soleil (site of the July 5, 2005 operation ...
As a new child sex abuse scandal involving Uruguayan MINUSTAH troops unfolds (without coverage in the English language media), and new scientific studies emerge linking MINUSTAH to the origin of the current ...
34. MINUSTAH: Mission (Almost) Accomplished?
(Matching tags: un, minustah)
... Celso Amorim made public remarks the other day regarding a possible draw down of Brazilian troops from MINUSTAH. As Haiti Libre and other outlets have noted, Amorim’s remarks are significant in part ...
35. "Brazil, MINUSTAH, Need a Timetable for Withdrawal" - Mark Weisbrot in Folha de Sao Paulo
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, aristide, minustah, disease, election, wikileaks)
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot wrote in Folha de São Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, yesterday: U.S. diplomatic cables now released from Wikileaks make it clearer than ever before ...
36. MINUSTAH Brought Cholera Into Haiti; Sought to Keep Aristide Out
(Matching tags: rainy season, aristide, minustah, disease, wikileaks)
Revelations about MINUSTAH are in the news again. First, a new study published in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal affirms that a MINUSTAH camp was the origin of the cholera ...
As we’ve previously described, State Department cables Wikileaked last year revealed a State offensive against unfavorable media coverage of the U.S. role in the aid effort, with Hillary Clinton instructing ...
38. UN Panel Links Cholera to MINUSTAH Base; MINUSTAH Continues to Shift Blame
(Matching tags: rainy season, minustah, sanitation, cholera)
... caused by the confluence of circumstances…and was not the fault of, or deliberate action of, a group or individual,” the report is a serious indictment of MINUSTAH, specifically the base in Mirebalais. ...
39. Talk of Prioritizing a Civilian, Over a Military Mission, at the UNSC
(Matching tags: un, reconstruction, minustah, ngos)
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos chaired a UN Security Council meeting today, reportedly attended by representatives of 14 countries (including the foreign ministers of MINUSTAH members Argentina ...
40. Is MINUSTAH’s Time Almost Up?
(Matching tags: un, minustah, election, wikileaks)
... the [Peace Keeping Operation]”, and the explosion of opposition in Haiti to MINUSTAH’s ongoing presence following its suspected (with strong evidence) role in causing the cholera outbreak last year, in ...
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