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Thousands of Haitians Face Risk of Forcible Evictions from Temporary Camps

It's been over seven months since Haiti's devastating earthquake left up to 300,000 dead and displaced over 1.5 million. Only a small fraction of the displaced have found new homes, and those who've found shelter in temporary camps now face a new round of displacement. According to Haitian community groups, thousands of Haitians are at risk of forcible eviction from some of the 1,300 camps established since the quake. The evictions come at a time when reports show a rising number of rapes and s-xual abuse in the aftermath of the quake, especially in the camps for the internally displaced. Ref. Source 9

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France Urged to Pay $40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt"

According to the UN-sponsored Haiti Reconstruction Fund, only two countries-Brazil and Estonia-have fully paid the pledged amount. The United States, France, Canada and many others have failed to send their pledged aid. A recent review by CNN found that just two percent of total pledges have been delivered to Haiti. Calls are now growing for another form of payment to Haiti: reparations. This week, a group of prominent academics and activists published an open letter calling on France to repay an "independence debt" it imposed nearly 200 years ago after Haiti successfully won independence from France. Haiti was forced to pay France around 90 million gold francs up until World War II, which after interest and inflation is valued today at up to $40 billion. Ref. Source 2

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Haitian officials investigating disease outbreak

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Health officials in rural Haiti are investigating a possible disease outbreak that could be responsible for dozens of deaths and a surge in hospital patients. Ref. Source 6

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UN official concerned about rapes in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations (UN) top representative on Human Rights for Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kaelin, has expressed concern about high levels of r-pe and other violence against women and children in the camps in Haiti. Ref. Source 9

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Partners in Health Physician on Haiti: "Cholera Will Not Go Away Until Underlying Situations that Make People Vulnerable Change"

The Haitian government says a cholera outbreak is slowing down, but experts are warning the disease could remain for many years. At least 259 people have died, and over 3,300 have been infected. We speak with Dr. Evan Lyon, a physician with the group Partners in Health who has spent years working in Haiti. In 2008, he helped lead a study on how the US undermined clean water projects in Haiti. Ref. Source 2

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Haiti Cholera Outbreak Reaches Port-au-Prince, Congress Continues to Block Release of Aid Funds

In Haiti, a cholera outbreak has reached the capital Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are still homeless and living in crowded tent cities following January's deadly earthquake. Meanwhile in Washington, Congress has put up another obstacle to delivering the $1.15 billion in reconstruction money it promised to Haiti back in March. We go to Port-au-Prince to speak with Jonathan Katz, Haiti correspondent for the Associated Press, and we are joined by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat. Ref. Source 6

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Haiti cholera death toll soars:

Death toll jumps to 917 as international organisations appeal for funds to fight epidemic. Ref. Source 5

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Haiti: Where is the UN? Where is the help?:

Thousands may be dead as scale of cholera epidemic is underestimated Ref. Source 2

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Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Protests against U.N. Continue over Cholera Outbreak

Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that has now killed more than 1,100 people and infected some 17,000. On Wednesday, residents in the city of Cap-Haïtien clashed with U.N. Troops for the third consecutive day. Crowds have taken to the streets expressing anger at the Haitian government and the United Nations for failing to contain the disease. We go to Cap-Haïtien to speak with independent journalist Ansel Herz. Ref. Source 1

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Blocking Aristide's return to Haiti shows woeful lack of respect:

Haiti's infamous dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country's first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington's policy toward Haiti. Ref. Source 3

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NGOs in Haiti "The Handmaidens of Imperial Domination"
By Mike Whitney

They are part and parcel of what Naomi Klein has called disaster capitalism. International NGOs are really businesses and big ones at that. There are about 50,000 international NGOs that compete for about $10 billion in funding from the International Financial Institutions, the imperial powers, and local governments. Ref. Source 3