
Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks
Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters ...
Lawyers: Haiti cholera lawsuit threatened at UN
A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian ...

More Haitians using Puerto Rico as migrant route
Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by sea or by trekking across the ...

In Caribbean, gridlocked courts stall lives
Claudette Johnson still has a hard time sleeping at night a decade after her son was fatally shot in a confrontation with Jamaican police and 15 years ...

The Bush and Clinton families, on stage in Texas
They have dominated American politics for the past three decades: the Bush and Clinton families, taking turns in a string of positions of power and ...

Amnesty criticizes Haiti over evictions from camps
Haiti has violated international human rights obligations by failing to protect people who have been forced to leave the impromptu settlements that ...

Brazil official: World Cup, Olympics will be safe
Brazilian officials said Tuesday they were closely following the investigation into the explosions at the Boston Marathon as they consider whether to ...
FIFA head: Boost security after Boston blasts
A top FIFA official says the international football organization will be stepping up security for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil as a result of the ...

Alarm over vanishing frogs in the Caribbean
A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with ...
Haiti historian who chronicled capital dies at 88
George Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, died ...
UN: Haitians aren't getting enough food
The United Nations said Tuesday that a growing number of people in Haiti are not getting enough to eat following a heavy storm season that damaged ...
UN says not enough people in Haiti eating enough
The United Nations says a growing number of Haitians are not getting enough to eat. The U.N. mission in the Caribbean nation of 10 million people said ...
Haiti replaces head of industrial park agency
The Haitian government has issued a presidential decree replacing the head of an agency that oversees a new industrial park that the U.S. invested in ...

Haiti splashes slum with psychedelic colors
One of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, a vast expanse of grim cinderblock homes on a mountainside in the nation's capital, is getting a psychedelic ...

Testimony resumes in Haiti's 'Baby Doc' case
Testimony in the high-profile case of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier resumed Thursday, with another alleged victim describing abuses she ...
Testimony resumes in Haiti 'Baby Doc' case
Alleged victims of the government of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier have resumed their testimony in court. Dr. Nicole Magloire told ...

Clinton awards more than $700,000 to Haiti farms
A charity for former U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded more than $700,000 to develop the country's agriculture sector. The Clinton Foundation ...

Venezuela petro-allies nervous over Chavez's death
Cubans remember the so-called Special Period of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union's sudden collapse plunged the island into years of economic ...

Chavez widely mourned, but some hope change on way
Some cried, some cheered. Many Latin Americans mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaders in Europe and Asia sent condolences, and ...

Sean Penn calls progress in Haiti 'extraordinary'
Sean Penn remembers smelling dead bodies when he arrived in Haiti after the earthquake. But now there's music in those same streets even as the ...

Haiti's 'Baby Doc' summoned to court after no-show
A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to ...
UN rejects damage claim for Haiti cholera victims
The United Nations rejected a claim for damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families on Thursday, citing diplomatic ...
US AG meets with Caribbean leaders in Haiti
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discussed regional crime with Caribbean leaders on Monday during a summit in Haiti. Holder talked with the leaders ...

Haitian schools expand use of Creole language
Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chattering in their native ...

Haiti 'snake artist' uses Carnival to get by
Saintilus Resilus' day job this time of year is walking the streets of Haiti's capital with snakes on his head. He sees himself as something of a ...