21. Will the International Community Stand Idly By While Over 11,000 Haitians Die from Cholera?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, shelter, sanitation, disease, ngos)

In the wake of last week’s letter by 53 members of the U.S. Congress urging prioritizing the needs of IDP’s, Georgianne Nienaber underscores the urgency of the situation in a new piece for Haiti Live News ...

22. IHRC Board Meets Amidst Mounting Criticism
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, shelter, ngos, ihrc)

As Bill Clinton heads to Haiti to participate in the second day of meetings of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), the exclusion of Haitian and civil society input should be on top of the agenda. ...

23. 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 ...

24. OCHA Bulletin Highlights Massive Shortcomings in Relief Efforts
(Matching tags: rainy season, un, shelter, ngos, us)

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) latest “Humanitarian Bulletin” provides some insight into just how much the relief efforts have struggled to provide results over the ...

25. Hundreds of Thousands of IDP's Likely to Still Be in Camps by 2012
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, tarps, ngos, idps)

Although much of the recent press coverage of Haiti has focused on the election, there remain serious humanitarian concerns that have yet to be adequately addressed. A cholera epidemic continues to spread ...

26. IACHR Urges U.S. to Stop Deporting Sick People to Haiti
(Matching tags: sanitation, disease, ngos)

Following the tragic death of Wildrick Guerrier on January 22 following his deportation from the U.S. to Haiti, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States ...

27. Relief and Reconstruction: The Year in Review, Part II
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, disease, ngos)

... barely addressed, if at all. On this Jan. 12, the aid groups and NGOs are flying in their bosses to tout very limited successes and ask for money to do it over again. Elsewhere, articles in The Nation ...

28. Haitian Presidents: When In Doubt, Fly 'Em Out?
(Matching tags: un, minustah, ngos, wikileaks)

Ricardo Seitenfus, the Organization of American States' Special Representative in Haiti, seems to have lost his job after an interview in which he sharply criticized the role of MINUSTAH, and NGO’s, in ...

29. Relief and Reconstruction: The Year in Review, Part I
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, doctors without borders, reconstruction, sanitation, disease, ngos, red cross)

 Ahead of Wednesday’s one-year anniversary of the earthquake, NGO’s, international agencies, and media outlets are issuing various summaries of what has been (and has not been) accomplished over the past ...

30. UN Urges Cholera Funds Now: “Let's worry about next year next year.”
(Matching tags: un, disease, ngos)

The UN General Assembly is set to have a post-elections discussion on Haiti on December 3. No doubt the UN will again urge the international community to contribute to its emergency fund to fight cholera ...

31. Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part I
(Matching tags: disease, ngos, elections, red cross)

CORRECTION: Please note that the last paragraph of this post originally mistakenly referred to CRS when it should have referred to the American Red Cross. We apologize for the error, and have corrected ...

32. Will UN's Appeal for Emergency Cholera Fund Fall on Deaf Ears?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, ngos, red cross, catholic relief services, pledges)

The UN Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti has released updated data regarding the status of pledges made by donor countries in New York last March. As a cholera epidemic continues to spread, now claiming ...

33. Relief Efforts' Failure to Provide Shelter Has Haiti Reeling as Tomas Approaches
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, ngos, evictions, idps)

... of dollars but seem reluctant to actually open their wallets, he says." And that is a big assumption as rich countries continue to neglect their aid pledges, and NGOs continue to sit on emergency relief ...

34. 'Focusing on Long-term Development' in Times of Cholera and Crisis
(Matching tags: aid distribution, media coverage, world vision, ngos, red cross)

Independent journalist Ansel Herz, who has been reporting from the ground in Haiti since the earthquake, writes in the New York Daily News today on the media's treatment of the cholera outbreak as well ...

35. US and France Scold Displaced Haitians and Other Whiners for Being 'Impatient' and 'Unrealistic'
(Matching tags: aid distribution, ngos, idp, camp conditions)

Speaking alongside a meeting with Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive, Hillary Clinton and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner addressed the "growing impatience in the Caribbean nation over ...

36. Hurricane Roulette
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, un, shelter, tarps, ngos)

Haiti may have dodged a bullet as tropical storm Gaston – which meteorologists had feared might hit Haiti – dissipated late last week. But the scare was a reminder of just vulnerable hundreds of thousands ...

37. AidWest vs. Aid Waste
(Matching tags: aid distribution, ngos, care, american red cross, crs)

There was a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of the earthquake, it is estimated that nearly half of all US households donated for Haiti relief. The totals are outstanding, over a billion ...

38. CARICOM Calls for Direct Support to Haitian Government
(Matching tags: ngos, haitian government, elections, aid coordination)

... the hundreds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that they fear could undermine the fragile democracy in Haiti." Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister of Dominica and head of CARICOM is quoted as ...

39. Sean Penn: Agencies Must Spend Money Allocated to Them, Act Decisively Ahead of Rainy Season
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, ngos, relocation)

On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last night they looked at relocation plans, asking the important question, why have things moved so slowly? First CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman travels to the first planned ...

40. Congressional Trip to Haiti: "We Didn't See the Red Cross Anywhere"
(Matching tags: aid distribution, ngos, red cross)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) told a Florida radio station upon returning from a congressional trip to Haiti that, "we didn't see the Red Cross anywhere, at all," reports Michael O'Brien for Politico's ...