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The United Nations Security Council on Monday called for stepped-up social and economic development in impoverished Haiti to deal with deteriorating living standards for most of its 8.7 million people.
Carberry Intermediate School sixth-grader Julia Nigro wrote and delivered a speech during the “Help Haiti, Help Emmett” fundraiser held by the Carberry sixth-grade class. Nigro explained why the attendees should devote their time and effort to good causes.
New York, Jun 10 2009 2:10PM Thousands of Haitian unpaid child labourers are trapped in a “modern form of slavery,” an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.
Fort Collins-based Trees, Water & People has won a $1 million prize for sustainability from an international mining company, allowing it to expand two programs in Central America and Haiti.
A former employee at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for stealing more than $800,000 from the U.S. Department of State, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced.
The chief United Nations investigator on slavery signalled Wednesday that Haiti — the only nation born of a slave revolt — has entrenched child enslavement through its long-denounced "restavek" system.
