Haiti News News Haiti » Social: Hope for Haiti and Niantic 8th Wall Partner to Leverage AR Technology for Social Good, Launch Donation Match at Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2024
LONG BEACH, Calif., June 19, 2024 (Newswire.com) - Hope for Haiti is thrilled to announce a partnership with Niantic 8th Wall, uniting the power of augmented reality (AR) technology and philanthropy ...
News Haiti » Social: Sugarcane heiress, social advocate with historic Haitian lineage plans to run for president
Savannah Savary says she plans to run for Haiti’s presidency, but has not registered officially. A coalition she said would register her has been unreachable to date.
News Haiti » Social: Haiti’s Choice is Social Revolution or Foreign Intervention
With long experience of chaos, violence, and dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the verge of new crisis in the form of foreign military intervention. U.S. and United Nations ...
News Haiti » Social: Haiti’s unelected prime minister ousted amid surging gang and state violence, increasing social misery
Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put ...
News Haiti » Social: Neighborhood social vulnerability and premature cardiovascular disease in Haiti
"In Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere, at the extreme end of these distributions globally, we saw gradient effects of poverty and social vulnerability associated with a ...
News Haiti » Social: Haiti’s children ‘dragged into hell’ as gang violence rages
Jude Chery has heard talk of armed gangs for most of his life. The 30-year-old Haitian activist remembers that he started to learn the names of powerful gang leaders even as a child in primary school.
News Haiti » Social: Reclaiming Safe Abortion Access in Haiti
Don’t move. Those were the only words from the doctor who performed Samora Chalmers’ first abortion 15 years ago in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during her 30-minute appointment. Chalmers can’t tell you the ...
News Haiti » Social: Guest Editorial: Haiti, Fusing Commerce & Social Progress
The recent tragedies in Bangladeshi factories have heightened global attention onto the conditions of international garment workers. While well-meaning, the attention hasn’t always resulted in ...
News Haiti » Social: Prioritise social programmes and economic development over militarisation in Haiti
In the realm of political decision-making, leaders often find themselves at a crossroads, facing the age-old dilemma of choosing between “butter” – symbolizing social welfare and economic development ...
News Haiti » Social: Protests against political and social crisis continue in Haiti as imperialist powers consider military intervention
Mass protests escalated across Haiti after weeks of resistance to the conditions of poverty and oppression millions are facing. This is combined with political opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Henry ...