Five former South American dictators are in prison for crimes committed under their regimes; Peru's Morales Bermúdez and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier also face charges.
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.
Amnesty International calls for a moratorium on forcible removals from displaced person camps and issues an urgent action for families threatened in Carrefour, Haiti.
US labor groups say Sae-A managers arranged an attack on unionists, while mainstream Nicaraguan unions say it’s a US conspiracy. Next stop for Sae-A is 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?
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.
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.
