1. UN Human Rights Expert: Haiti and International Community Should “Throw Light” on Cause of Cholera Outbreak
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According to reports on Twitter yesterday, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, Michel Forst has resigned for “personal reasons,” even though his mandate was supposed ...

2. Another Inspector General Audit, Another Failing Grade for USAID in Haiti
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The U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General (IG) last week released an audit of a program to provide loans to businesses in Haiti (available here). The audit is just the latest report ...

3. Cholera Eradication Plan Announced, But Funding Still in Question
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865 days after Haiti’s cholera epidemic first began, with over 8,000 dead and some 650,000 sickened, the government of Haiti, with international support, officially launched a ten-year cholera eradication ...

4. How Many Beltway Contractors Does it Take to do a Feasibility Study?
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... contracts for work in Haiti appears on the USAspending.gov website. Additionally, there is legislation which now requires prime contractors to report sub-awards: the Federal Funding Accountability and ...

5. Three Years Later: Three Answers to Haiti's Predicament
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Freelance journalist Ansel Herz survived the earthquake and reported from Haiti for two years. His work has been published by ABC News, the New York Daily News and Al Jazeera English, among other media ...

6. Pressure Builds on UN to Take Responsibility as Cholera Still Far From “Under Control”
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Port-au-Prince – The origin of Haiti’s deadly cholera outbreak is not much in doubt, at least not to anybody outside the U.N. A host of scientific studies have all pointed to UN troops whose waste made ...

7. UN Gives Journalism Prize to Investigation Exposing UN Responsibility for Cholera – And Still Won’t Accept Responsibility
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Tonight, in a ceremony presided over by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, BBC correspondent Mark Doyle and producer Piers Scholfield will be presented with an award from the U.N. Correspondents Association ...

8. Who is Really Leading Reconstruction Efforts in Haiti?
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After decades of bypassing the Haitian government in the provision of aid, after the 2010 earthquake there was an acknowledgement by international NGOs and donors that this time had to be different. The ...

9. USAID Says More than 9% of Funds Going to Local Groups. Really?
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This past weekend, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said that by 2015 the goal is to have 30 percent of aid funds going to local groups. This is in line with the goals put forth in the USAID Forward reform ...

10. Reduced Charges Against Uruguayan MINUSTAH Troops Latest Example of Lack of UN Accountability
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Last week, four Uruguayan peacekeepers who were repatriated from Haiti nearly one year ago after video evidence emerged showing the assault of an 18-year old Haitian man, apparently inside the Uruguayan’s ...