Thousands of Haitians killed or sickened by a cholera epidemic that they blame on U.N. peacekeepers cannot sue the United Nations in a U.S. court because...
Haiti’s health system still does not have the capacity to adequately treat cholera patients and there has been an uptick in cases in the country’s capital,...
Four years into the world’s worst ever cholera epidemic, Haitians are still seeking compensation from the United Nations (UN), whose own experts have said it is...
The United Nations (UN) has a “moral responsibility” to help Haiti end a devastating cholera outbreak, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. The cholera has been...
Lawyers for the Haiti cholera victims, in a lawsuit against the United Nations have revealed that the organizations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been served with...
Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, the UN Special Representative to Haiti and the UN Senior Coordinator for cholera response vowed to press on with intensified efforts...
Haiti’s cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world, the top U.N. envoy there said Monday. Sandra Honore briefed the U.N. Security Council about the...
Victims of Haiti’s deadly post-earthquake cholera epidemic filed a new lawsuit Tuesday against the United Nations in US federal court, demanding compensation over the organization’s alleged...
The government of Haiti along with international partners launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people in vulnerable areas of the country. The...
A United Nations envoy warned Wednesday that cholera deaths in Haiti will surge and spread to other countries unless more funds are found to battle the...
(Reuters) – Human rights lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic announced on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit against the United Nations, with a...
U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended a 15 percent reduction in the number of U.N. troops in Haiti last week and an examination of whether the beleaguered...
A Yale University report released Tuesday argues that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation....
The United Nations (UN) has refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000 cholera-affected Haitians against it. The Haitians contend that grossly inadequate sanitation at a...
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island-nation over the past...
The United Nations Organization’s efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti are “almost non-existent”, a medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres has revealed, as the world body faces...
Haiti’s government Monday called on the public to act against cholera infections especially in the capital Port-au-Prince where one fourth of all cholera cases have occurred,...
A human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera...
For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010. Although...
The United Nations on Thursday formally rejected a multibillion-dollar damages claim for a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has been widely blamed on U.N. peacekeepers. About...
Cholera could be contained in Haiti by vaccinating less than half the population, University of Florida researchers suggest in a paper to be published Thursday in...
(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a US$2.2 billion initiative on Tuesday to stamp out cholera over the next decade in impoverished Haiti, where an...
Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require US$2.2 billion over the next 10 years for an ambitious plan to eliminate cholera, an official from the U.S....
Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, saw a small increase in the number of people infected by cholera after last week’s destructive rains from Hurricane Sandy, an...
Justin Podur issues a powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community. (PR Newswire) – Haiti is again living under a dictatorship,...
New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in Haiti. The new evidence could have serious implications...
(Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Friday approved for another year the world body’s peacekeeping force in Haiti, but it will be cut in size...
(Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was “regrettable” but has been brought under control, the...
Just when Haiti thought it had cholera under control, Tropical Storm Isaac came along. The storm left at least 24 dead in Haiti, and reignited fears...
By Mark Weisbrot Time to Clean Up One of the UN’s Biggest Crimes The people of Haiti have had a long and arduous struggle just to...
The death rate from the Haiti cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7,000 people over the past two years has finally ebbed, but the debate...
Cholera has two faces in Haiti. Alongside the strain causing an epidemic is another that does not lead to epidemics but can cause severe symptoms. Better...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year...
Anti-UN protests in Haiti Two years after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, a second humanitarian crisis continues to claim Haitian lives. Whereas the first crisis was a...
(Reuters) – The Haitian government along with international partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people...
After myriad delays and setback, health workers in Haiti are beginning to vaccinate against cholera. Today, 50,000 people living in the slums of Port-au-Prince will start...
Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a U.N. peacekeeper was responsible for bringing the cholera strain to Haiti but may not have known that...
Haiti President Michel Martelly (l) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. PHOTO/File Haiti’s earthquake reconstruction efforts and its mandate are under review by the United...
The U.N. Security Council began a four-day mission in Haiti on Monday to review the terms of its mandate and evaluate earthquake reconstruction efforts in the...
Haiti is seeing a drop in the number of cholera cases as the country settles into its dry season. Dr. Wendy Lai of Doctors Without Borders...
