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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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UK/Europe visit by Haitian human rights lawyer: put Haitians in charge of their own development
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HSG Briefing No. 69 (in French and English) deconstructs the reconstruction and asks whether aid to Haiti has changed since the earthquake.

 

The second anniversary of the earthquake of 12 January 2010 marked the start of an 18-month HSG campaign to persuade the EU (and other international donors) to change their approach to development aid in Haiti so that he country will be given a chance to take control of its own destiny.

Leading Haitian human rights lawyer Mario Joseph visited London, Scotland and Brussels on a 10-day tour, which ended on 19 January, to provide the analysis and proposals of grassroots civil society in Haiti to the public and to key decisionmakers.

At a major public event in London, organised by a coalition of UK groups committed to Haiti, including the HSG, Mario called on those present and on people throughout the world to act in true solidarity with Haiti.

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New Book, Old Paul Farmer: Discuss

Anyone who can draw six hundred people paying $30.00 a head to a Washington DC book launch at 9.00am on a Monday morning qualifies for guru status. Anyone who insists on staying to sign the books of the hundreds who lined up for a personal dedication, thoroughly deserves that status.

Yet what is Paul Farmer, an infectious disease doctor who along with Haitian colleagues has probably tried to answer more of Haiti's key development questions than any other blan alive, now selling? Just as importantly, given his Pied Piper status, what are his followers buying?

The short answer is a breathlessly reflective diary of his year post earthquake. Here he is sporting all his multiple hats: global health visionary, Deputy UN Special Envoy to Haiti, founder of Haiti's leading health care provider and, in what probably means most to him and Haitians, simply Doktor Paul.

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Au Peuple D’Hayti: How Haiti’s Most Historic Document  was Discovered

You can touch it, even turn its pages. But only with white cotton gloves. Yet the eight-page, yellowed, pamphlet feels so precious, sacred even that I leave it to my host and its keeper, James Cronan, a Diplomatic and Colonial records Specialist in Britain’s National Archives in Kew.

“It’s a gem, and I am sure there are more in here,” he says, staring down at the large weathered leather-bound volume of hand-written correspondence into which it is tightly bound. “Ironically we had catalogued the volume before this one and the volume after. But not the most crucial one.”

The document in question is the most important in Haiti’s history and one of the most significant in the modern world: the only extant original printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence. Until February 2, 2010 it had remained hidden for more than 200 years amongst the papers and correspondence of Sir George Nugent, the Governor of Jamaica during some of the span of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804).

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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 (except for the last two which are available exclusively to HSG members) are available in our archive. 

To download - the latest issue (no. 69) shows how the Interim Reconstruction Commission failed to provide results and Haitian owernship - please click here. This number is - as an exception, given the need to debate the IHRC issues widely - free for all to download!