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  • RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti

    RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and 2002 RFK Award recipient, Loune Viaud of Zamni Lasante, release U.S. Department of Treasury documents revealing that the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank deliberately obstructed $146 million in approved IDB financing. WASHINGTON - August 4 - The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and Zamni Lasante released internal U.S. ...

  • Dominican Republic’s biggest land fraud case goes to Supreme Court

    Santo Domingo.- The National District Prosecutor filed to appeal a ruling acquitting former Agrarian Institute (IAD) director Jaime Rodriguez Guzman, a brother and his wife of charges od defrauding the State out of thousands of hectares at Bahia de las Aguilas (southwest). Yeni Berenice Reynoso asked the Supreme Court to revoke the June 4 ruling by 1st First Instance Court presiding judge ...

  • Canadian troops expected to be deployed to Haiti for peacekeeping

    A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday January 16, 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian forces, in a long-delayed mission that has been kept inexplicably low on the political radar. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian ...

  • Haitian girl receiving life changing surgery in Lake Worth

    WEST PALM BEACH, FL (WFLX) - A baby girl from Haiti is getting a new chance at survival in south Florida. Her rare birth defect will soon be treated by doctors in Palm Beach County. The pediatric ...

  • 10 children rescued from Haitian human smugglers

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have rescued 10 children smuggled from Haiti, the Special Terrestrial Border Security Unit (Cesfront) said Wednesday.Cesfront officials said a Haitian citizen who had transported the children aged between 4 and 9 had managed to escape after noticing the presence of soldiers in the province of Dajabon bordering Haiti.According to the children's ...


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Sarah's Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah)

Sarah's Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah)

Sarahs Key (Elle sappelait Sarah) is a consistently engrossing, sometimes stunning, but emotionally uneven film that literalizes its thematic insistence on the importance of storytelling in maintaining historical memory by making an often neglected chapter of the Holocaust the ... ...

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  • Saving Baby Lillie Haitian girl in PBC

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A baby girl from Haiti is getting a new chance at survival in south Florida. Her rare birth defect will soon be treated by doctors in Palm Beach County. The pediatric surgeons received this heartbreaking case because of the dedication of a Lake Worth-based non-profit ...

  • Quebec wants Haiti earthquake victims to stay in Canada

    The Quebec government is hoping Ottawa will allow thousands of Haitians who fled to Canada after the 2010 earthquake to stay in the country. Amid the chaos of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Malie-Merline Fanfan found refuge aboard a Canadian military plane bound for Montreal, settling in the city's St. Michel district with her two daughters. "Imagine these children who are ...

  • Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti

    A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian ...

  • Platoon of Canadian soldiers deploys with Brazilians for Haiti peacekeeping

    TORONTO - A team of Canadian and U.S. researchers has developed a new "sharp-shooter" drug they hope may be a breakthrough in treating several types of aggressive ...

  • Eastern Caribbean Fueled by OECS Integration Process

    Port of Spain, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) turned 32 years today with new challenges and immersed in a process of change to increase the links between its members. A key moment of the group was the launch, two years ago, of a regional economic union, which allows greater trade with the signing of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre. The agreement ...

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