1. Cholera Continues to Spread After Hurricane Sandy
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Hurricane Sandy dumped up to 20 inches of rain of parts of Haiti last month and, in addition to the immediate devastation on crops, people, roads and homes, it has led to an increase in the number of cholera ...

2. 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 ...

3. Reuters Report Slams MINUSTAH
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Reuters reports on the U.N. Peacekeepers's response in the days after the earthquake, reporting a detrimental focus on security. One member of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division told Reuters: "The ...

4. When Will the United Nations Pay for Its Actions in Haiti?
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... the resulting black liquid flowing into a tributary of Haiti’s largest river. Still, the UN didn’t hesitate to defend itself; the head of the UN troops (known as MINUSTAH), said that it was “really unfair ...

5. 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 ...

6. UN’s Immunity Claim Provokes Outrage
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The U.N.’s claim of immunity in response to the legal complaint filed against it on behalf of over 6,000 cholera victims has provoked outrage. Author Kathie Klarreich called it “unconscionable and immoral” ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. UN Gives Journalism Prize to Investigation Exposing UN Responsibility for Cholera – And Still Won’t Accept Responsibility
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... initiative the U.N. pledged just $23.5 million of their own funds, less than four percent of what they are spending on keeping MINUSTAH troops in the country this year; the same troops that introduced ...

10. Haitian Groups Protest UN on Human Rights Day for Introducing Cholera
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The cholera epidemic, brought to Haiti by UN troops over two years ago, continues to spread throughout the country claiming lives and sickening thousands. Since the passage of Hurricane Sandy in late October, ...