With doors closed to the US, asylum-seekers turn to their Plan B: A new life in Mexico
After President Donald Trump effectively slammed the door on asylum-seekers crossing the U.S. southern border when he took ...
UNICEF Dispatch From Haiti: What Children Need Most
Multiple threats to children's health, safety and well-being include recruitment into armed groups amid escalating violence ...
Children's bodies a 'battleground' in Haiti as sexual violence surges, UNICEF warns
More than a million people, over half of them children, are displaced within Haiti due to violence, U.N. data show.
The risks of journalism in Haiti: Nation ranks among deadliest places on global list
This is an issue that should worry us all—because censorship prevents us from addressing corruption and criminality, and from ...
Haitian migrants share harrowing stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations
A crowd of 500 descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating ...
UN: Critical humanitarian air service in Haiti faces ‘imminent’ shutdown without funds
Aimé visited the airport to see the demolition work that is taking place in hopes of getting the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to lift its ban on U.S. commercial and cargo flights next month.
Maine nonprofit directly impacted by move to shutter USAID
In recent weeks, as a direct result of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International ...
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The complex story of the Creole pig's significance to Haiti - and to its downfall
The link between the demise of the Creole pig and the crisis of Haiti is the subject of a new documentary produced by WLRN ...
City of Springfield sues neo-Nazi group that it says led the harassment of Haitian community
The lawsuit accused the Blood Tribe group of 'engaging in, and inciting, a campaign of harassment and intimidation, motivated ...
Maine nonprofit’s work in Haiti hampered by USAID shutdown
Konbit Sante used the $220,000 a year USAID grant to help fund maternal and newborn care in a poor neighborhood in Haiti's ...
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How the gutting of USAID is reverberating around the world: Worry, despair, praise
Reactions to the changes in USAID run the gamut. Some leading voices — like Mexico's president — are in favor. Others fear ...
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Danielle Legros Georges, Boston's former Poet Laureate, has died
Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's Poet Laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester, according to a post ...