Haiti

Oxfam has been heavily criticised by the Charity Commission for the manner in which it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct of its staff in Haiti and its charity shops.

Tens of thousands of Haitians participated in protests across the country on Sunday to demand President Jovenel Moïse’s resignation. The mass action came after an audit found politicians had embezzled billions in development funds from PetroCaribe, a socialist Venezuelan program that granted poorer Western Hemisphere nations access to cheap oil.

Dartmouth Professor Chesley L. Kivland argued in a column that guns have the power to turn people evil.

Police in Haiti arrested a group of foreign nationals, including five Americans, for possession of illegal firearms on Sunday as protests against corruption rocked the nation and President Jovenel Moise was pressured to resign.

Businesses and government offices slowly reopened across Haiti on Monday after more than a week of violent demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise over skyrocketing prices that have more than doubled for basic goods amid allegations of government corruption.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a statement on Wednesday explaining that Jany Leveille, the apparent spiritual leader of the New Mexico compound where a group of Muslim extremists held 11 starving children and evidently killed a small child, is an illegal alien from Haiti who overstayed her visa by over 20 years.

Contents: Haiti people riot after announcement of fuel price rises during World Cup match; International Monetary Fund blamed for austerity triggering riots

The United States embassy in Haiti has asked for further military backup, including Marines, as the capital, Port-au-Prince, remains gripped by violent civil unrest. 

Youth groups from multiple churches in the United States are stranded in Haiti and unable to get back home due to violent protests in the Caribbean island nation over fuel prices.

President Donald Trump is quietly sending a few thousand Liberians homeward after 20-plus years of temporary residency in the United States. 

A majority of people in the Dominican Republic want bans and deportations for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants entering their country, according to new polling data.

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and two left-wing, pro-illegal alien labor unions filed suit Monday, claiming it is unconstitutional for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to be given any end date.

Aid workers sent to conflict zones representing the United Nations and international charities routinely sexually assault the very people they are sent to help, a former aid worker has claimed.

LONDON (AP) – Oxfam’s leadership apologised Tuesday for downplaying the significance of a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti and sought to stem the tide of cancelled donations.

Despite Conan O’Brien’s claims that Haiti is ‘a beautiful country,’ and ‘great already,’ during his recent publicity stunt against President Trump’s alleged negative comments about the country, the comedian trashed the country on his show in 2005.

LONDON (AP) — The British government is reviewing its relationship with Oxfam amid a deepening sexual misconduct scandal involving some of the charity’s employees working in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake. The U.K.’s Department for International Development sharply criticized

Haiti is once again in the news. This poverty-stricken, disease-ridden, and politically-unstable Caribbean nation was reportedly on the receiving end of some unflattering comments recently attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump during a private meeting on immigration, which he and other participants denied.

The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk, former Democrats who left the party to support President Donald Trump, slammed the news media for spending a week focused on unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump may have used an expletive to refer to Africa and Haiti.

The UK Guardian published a report on Thursday alleging that “the United Nations has allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish in its offices around the world, with accusers ignored and perpetrators free to act with impunity.”

Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines says the controversy over reports that President Donald Trump called Haiti and other African countries ‘shithole countries’ is a distraction from the truth that the poverty and corruption in some regions of the world is an actual cause for concern.

Conan O’Brien claimed Haiti “is truly a beautiful country” while he stayed at a luxury resort last week.

Haitian nationals will no longer be allowed to enter the United States on low-skilled foreign guest worker visas, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo reveals.

Last week’s controversy over what liberal Illinois Senator Dick Durbin claimed that President Donald Trump said about Haiti in a private meeting with a group of senators, has brought several NFL players to Haiti’s defense.

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani claimed this week that an alleged reference to “shithole countries” by President Donald Trump, referring to Haiti and some African nations, would usher in “an epoch of modern savagery.”

Rand Paul said on Sunday that President Trump is not a bigot because the president previously financed a 2014 medical mission to Haiti.

About a dozen members of New York City’s Haitian community and others protested the Clinton Foundation’s cronyism outside the organization’s former Midtown Manhattan office Friday afternoon on the eighth anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Hillary Clinton decided to mark the eighth anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Haiti by accusing President Trump of harboring “racist” views against Haitians in light of his remarks about “shithole countries.”

In an op-ed for the left-wing Time, actor Sean Penn blasted President Trump as an “enemy of mankind” and “an enemy of the state.”

Paul Ryan called Trump’s “shithole” comment “very unfortunate, unhelpful” at a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee event on Friday.