The Caribbean
Haiti: support grows for minimum wage increase
After a year of struggle by Haitian workers supported by North American activists, two major garment companies have agreed to honor the legal minimum wage.
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The Caribbean
Haiti: anti-Martelly march is attacked
Protesters were met with tear gas, rocks and some shooting when they marched into the suburb where President Martelly lives.
The Caribbean
Cuba: UN issues 22nd rejection of US embargo
Now the US government can only find one other country that’s willing to back its embargo on Cuba. Even tiny Palau has jumped ship.
The Caribbean
Haiti: government tries to arrest opposition lawyer
Protesters and colleagues freed an attorney the government was trying to send to prison. His clients have filed corruption charges against the president’s family.
The Caribbean
Dominican Republic: CARICOM condemns anti-immigrant ruling
A Dominican court’s ruling against some 200,000 people descended from Haitian immigrants has inspired protests in Haiti and New York.
The Caribbean
Haiti: UN force faces lawsuit, new accusations
Lawyers for the victims sue the UN for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti, while an international watchdog group reports on “peacekeeper” corruption.
The Caribbean
US accused of violating human rights in Puerto Rico
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 Caribbean
Dominican Republic excludes descendants of ‘illegal’ Haitians
The Dominican high court ruled that undocumented immigrants are “in transit,” depriving their Dominican children of citizenship—including all born since 1929.
The Caribbean
Haiti: jobs missing at US-funded industrial park
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 Caribbean
Haiti: will case against rights lawyer be dropped?
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.
The Caribbean
Haiti: lawyer for homeless threatened with arrest
Activist lawyers are concerned as two are threatened with arrest and a judge dies suddenly while investigating government corruption.
The Caribbean
Haiti: religious groups hold anti-LGBT march
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.