Amnesty International calls for a moratorium on forcible removals from displaced person camps and issues an urgent action for families threatened in Carrefour, Haiti.
With promised jobs failing to materialize and scrutiny of labor abuses growing, Haiti’s sweatshop industry has decided to change personnel and hire a US lobbying firm.
A group of Haitian immigrant workers at a processing plant in the Dominican Republic have finally won their back pay in court; now they’re waiting to see the money.
Unknown assailants killed the editor of what was once a prominent leftist weekly. Will this case join the list of unsolved murders of Haitian journalists?
Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez spoke to a packed auditorium at New York University, challenged by audience members from both the left and the right.
Duvalier finally showed up in court and answered some questions. “Everything was going well when I was here,” he said. “When I came back, I found a broken and corrupt country.”
Three years after the earthquake thousands of displaced people still live in tent cities–and landowners and the government continue to evict and harass them.
Puerto Ricans marched on San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to protest plans to privatize the facility through a 40-year lease to an international consortium.
Protesters demonstrated against the Dominican government’s deals with a Canadian mining multinational, and with developers claiming titles to properties in an ecological reserve.
In just one day Jean-Claude Duvalier defied an order to appear in court for human rights abuses and the UN refused to accept responsibility for the cholera epidemic it started.
An assembly plant worker was assaulted and fired when he demanded that he be paid the legal minimum wage; activists ask for calls to Gildan, which buys from the plant.
Canadian companies plan to make $50 billion on a Dominican gold mine; Dominicans can look forward to getting $1.3 billion—and an environmental disaster.
