Residents of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico long used as a US Navy exercise range, brought a complaint before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.
The Dominican high court ruled that undocumented immigrants are “in transit,” depriving their Dominican children of citizenship—including all born since 1929.
The US State Department promised 65,000 jobs from a US-funded industrial park in northern Haiti; after 11 months, the number of jobs is all of 1,500.
The legal case against human rights attorney Florvilus is reportedly being dropped, but Florvilus and his staff still face death threats for their efforts to help earthquake victims.
Activist lawyers are concerned as two are threatened with arrest and a judge dies suddenly while investigating government corruption.
More than 1,000 Haitians marched against a same-sex marriage bill that hasn’t yet been proposed, while LGBT people face real persecution from homophobes.
As many as 200 Dominicans of Haitian descent gathered at the National Palace in the latest monthly protest against discriminatory policies that have left them in a legal limbo.
State University of Haiti administrators backed off an effort to triple registration fees after students protested with a militant demonstration in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Biotech giant Monsanto does much of its research and development in Puerto Rico, but it holds in effect that it isn’t subject to Puerto Rican law.
South American activists call for UN troops to leave Haiti, while Haitian unionists protest the government’s attempt to rewrite a minimum wage law via press release.
Nine years after he lost power, former president Aristide may be trying to make a comeback, but this time as an adviser and a dealmaker, not as a candidate.
Haiti saw unusually large May 1 marches this year as unions joined together in the capital and assembly and agricultural workers protested in other cities.
