41. "Haiti: The Great Fear" - Mark Weisbrot in The Sun Sentinel
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, doctors without borders, tarps, tents, elections, fanmi lavalas)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in Ft. Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel today: The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a ...

42. 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 ...

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

... Caroline Preston and Nicole Wallace reported yesterday that "In the year after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Americans gave more than $1.4-billion to aid survivors and help the impoverished country ...

44. One Week After the Quake, Hillary Clinton Directed a "Push Back" Against Criticism of U.S. Relief Efforts
(Matching tags: aid distribution, doctors without borders, wikileaks)

One week after the earthquake, as three million survivors anxiously awaited water and other aid while the U.S. prioritized getting security teams in place first, Secretary Clinton sent a cable – made available ...

45. 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 ...

46. U.S., WHO Preparing for Cholera Epidemic in Haiti “For Years to Come”
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, sanitation, disease)

... thousands of people. As AP reported today: The World Health Organization said Friday that the epidemic isn't likely to end soon. "The projections of 200,000 cases over the next six to twelve months ...

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

... to a hurricane by the time it reaches Haiti. For months aid groups and advocates have argued for the need for hurricane preparedness, specifically the need for better shelter, yet as Tomas approaches, ...

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

... as the lack of spending by aid organizations. Herz begins his op-ed with a quote from Peter James Hudson of Vanderbilt University: "Breaking: North American news outlets "excited" by Haiti cholera outbreak. ...

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

... the slow pace of recovery," reports AFP. Hillary Clinton said, "Those who expect progress immediately are unrealistic and doing a disservice to the many people who are working so hard." While for his ...

50. Hurricane Igor Threatens Haiti as IDPs Demand Right to Housing, Education
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, hurricane season)

AFP reports this morning that the Haitian Civil Protection Agency "declared an "orange alert," warning that several regions could be prone to flooding as a result of heavy rains expected in the next 48 ...