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Since 1992 the primary objective of the Haiti Support Group has been to amplify the voices of civil society organisations (CSOs) demonstrating an alternative vision of development in Haiti. Such CSOs are often ignored in official decision-making processes leading to policies with dire consequences for the Haitian poor.

You can reverse that history in solidarity with those working for real change, by supporting our campaigns and those of grassroots groups in Haiti: click here.

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Secondly, we carry the views of Haitian CSOs to decision-makers in local and foreign governments, NGOs, IGOs, the media and the public. We aim to ensure that the experience of Haiti's poor are heard in the corridors of power and among those who can influence them as activists, voters and reporters.

To that end the HSG has joined the Brussels-based advocacy platform Coordination Europe-Haiti as well as the Haiti Advocacy Working Group in Washington.

HSG on the ground

Thirdly, we build links between CSOs in Haiti and their equivalents in the developed world. To that end, we work with trade unions, church groups, women's organisations, and many others. In this way we help build a public lobby for a pro-poor development vision based on the experience of our Haitian CSO contacts. 

We are also linking Haitian CSOs with each other, to encourage more effective advocacy on the ground, through our Haitian correspondent.

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Haiti Briefing 74- The UN response to the Cholera Epidemic is a Murderous Charade
Friday, 24 May 2013 18:48

The lates issue of Haiti Briefing, our quarterly in-depth analysis of a major issue facing Haiti is now out.

Haiti Briefing 74 concentrates on the United Nation's mendacious response to the cholera epidemic it has caused in Hait.

In the first article, we demonstrate how the UN is not only making a mockery of the concept of rule of law in failing to accept liability and compensate the victims, but how its failure to act is leading to unnecessary deaths right now: UN Special Envoy on Cholera: "Silence is the Worst Response"

In the second article, we show how the UN is refusing to take even the most basic steps to prevebent this sort of tragedy happening again, meaning more needless deaths in the future: UN Rejects Cholera Experts' Recommendations to Change Medical Protocols

The Briefing is also available free in print version, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  to order.

 

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Amnesty International Urgent Action Appeal to protect earthquake victims

April 17, 2013 Amnesty International

FAMILIES ATTACKED, risk forced eviction

Hundreds of families left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti are living under the threat of forced eviction from their makeshift camp in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Their lives are in danger following a recent arson attack and the death of one resident in police custody.

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Submission 1
Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:14

UN DPKO Medical and Field Support Protocols
"Ensure Prompt and Appropriate Follow Up"

The crucial steps to be taken if we are to avoid this happening again

In December 2010 the UN Secretary General announced his intention to form an independent panel of experts to investigate and advise on the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

In January 2011, he named the four expert members.

In February they visited Haiti and began their fieldwork.

On May 3 they handed in a 32-page report that began and ended with 7 specific recommendations. Those recommendations are amongst our handouts here.

Read them and you will see that the first three pertain to UN internal procedures, medical screening, treatment, vaccination and sanitation in the field.

On May 4 the Secretary General announced his intention to, and I quote "convene a task force within the United Nations system to study the findings and recommendations made by the Independent Panel of Experts and ensure prompt and appropriate follow up."

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Submissions to members of the UN Security Council regarding cholera in Haiti
Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:21

On Monday 18th March, a delegation of HAWG (Haiti Advocacy Working Group) members met with some UN Security Council (SC) members prior to the debate on the Secretary General' s regular six-monthly report on MINUSTAH in Haiti.

Among them was Phillip Wearne, also of the Haiti Support Group. Below are the texts of the two submissions he made, both relating to the deadly cholera epidemic visited on Haiti by UN negligence, and for which the UN refuses to take responsibility. 

The first is on the failure of the UN to take action on the report of the UN's own Independent Experts who made urgent recommendations just weeks short of two years ago now on which Ban Ki-Moon personally promised "prompt and appropriate follow-up."

The second deals with the funding and implementation of the Plan to Eliminate Cholera which he demonstrates is in deep trouble just weeks after publication.

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Submission 2
Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:12

Dying in a closing Cholera Treatment Centre

The Secretary General's Cholera elimination Plan

How and why it is already unravelling

Just over three months ago, on December 11, the UN Secretary General launched in this building a $2.27bn, 10-year plan for the elimination of cholera from the island of Hispaniola. As the title suggests, the plan, even though it would be more than ten weeks before we saw it in any detail, was ambitious and aspirational.

We in HAWG welcomed then, and endorse now, that initiative as the most crucial step yet in recognizing the scale of the problem in Haiti and the comprehensive, integrated, coordinated way in which cholera has to be not only treated but fought to be eradicated.

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HSG's HAITI BRIEFING

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The Haiti Briefing, published in English and French,  is the key publication of the Haiti Support Group. Published quarterly, since 1992, it provides our members, Haiti watchers and decision-makers with analysis of Haiti's development issues, reflected through the voices of popular organisations on the ground. Back issues are available in our archive. 

To download - the latest issue (no. 73) demonstrates the Haitian government's slide towards authoritarianism - please click here.  All issues of Haiti Briefing are now free for all to download! (simply register at the link first if prompted)

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