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Haiti

"Miami Rice": The Business of Disaster in Haiti

by Beverly Bell | December 9, 2010 at 11:58 AM

As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and with gunfire. … Read More»

Haiti Photojournalism Project

by susanhall | November 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM

'Post Quake: Sexual Violence Against Haitian Women and Girls.' … Read More»

"The People Must Be Agents of Change:" The Lambi Fund of Haiti

by Beverly Bell | November 18, 2010 at 10:26 AM

Josette Pérard is director of Fon Lanbi Haiti, the Haitian counterpart of the Lambi Fund. … Read More»

Amid Haitian Crisis, Opportunity

by Beverly Bell | November 12, 2010 at 8:52 AM

When people ask me, as they do all the time, “Is there any cause for hope in Haiti?” I answer yes. … Read More»

Edwidge Danticat: Return to Haiti

Internationally acclaimed author and memoirist on her homeland, post-disaster. Read More »

"Recovery efforts can learn a lot from the way women have been recovering for years—from droughts, from floods, from hurricanes."

Haiti: Honoring the Ancestors

by Anne-Christine d’Adesky and Jacob Kushner

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: It’s September, nearly nine months after the massive January 12 earthquake that leveled the capital in a 30-second spasm, irrevocably altering Haiti’s present and future. Read More »

"Haitian women carry the burden of the country on their heads."

Michaelle Jean | General Governor of Canada

PHOTO ESSAY: Documenting the Lives of Girls in Haiti

by Nadia Todres

In the 1300 tent cities scattered across post-earthquake Haiti, young girls are coming of age amidst threats of sexual violence, rampant disease, and makeshift living conditions. Photographer Nadia Todres visited the camps of Port-au-Prince to document the precarious lives of girls on the ground. Read More »

Deliver "Dignity and Action" Kits to Haiti's Adolescent Girls

November 4, 2010

BY ANNE-CHRISTINE D’ADESKY

While the global outpouring of help and funds for Haiti’s earthquake survivors has been historic—one in of five Americans apparently responded—adolescent girls have been overlooked in relief efforts. Read More »

Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics, and Power

by Beverly Bell | November 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM

Reconstructing Haiti is not about buildings, projects, or money. It’s about power, about who gets to control what the future Haiti looks like. … Read More»

Visionary Leaders

Bearing Witness: Girls and Women in Haiti’s Camps

by Didi Bertrand Farmer

When Didi Bertrand Farmer returned to Haiti, she was unprepared for what she saw in the tent cities: an increase in sexual violence; mothers forced to leave their vulnerable daughters; young girls, pregnant as a result of rape. Read More »

"In Haiti, women are the centerpost—the potomitan—of our families and society."