Welcome to the Haiti Support Group
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:36 |
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HSG Executive Committee members Andy Leak and Mario Gousse took part in an expert panel in London's prestigious Frontline Club for international journalists on 17 June, which included award-winning journalist Jonathan Katz author of "The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster."
Commenting on the failure by the UN to compensate Haiti(ans) for introducing cholera to the country, Mario said:
“Let’s be clear that Haitians experience the UN as a military occupation. The UN literally defecates on Haiti and kills people (with cholera) and when it’s presented to them, they say ‘we’re not entertaining this case’. . . . The Haitian people are being kept by the UN from doing what they need to do – which is to govern themselves – which Haiti has shown that it can do. So if we look at all the miserable people, it’s artificially installed, it is not the natural state of Haitians.”
To watch the event of listen to the podcast click here.
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Friday, 24 May 2013 18:48 |
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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
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to order.
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:21 |
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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 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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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.
Read more...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:14 |
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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.
Read more...
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