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2. Haiti 2009: Stability at Risk
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2009-03-03
- Published:
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti: International Crisis Group
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 15 p., Warns about a series of crises that have increased the potential for serious trouble in Haiti. Suggests there is an urgent need for broad political consensus and improved relations between the executive and legislative branches of government, as well as a government-donor-civil society partnership to kick-start a community-oriented reconstruction process. This includes building a social safety net for hurricane victims and jobs-oriented infrastructure projects that prioritize areas hard-hit by the floods, boosting agriculture and enhancing a longer-term poverty reduction and economic growth strategy.
3. Haiti's Excluded: How the Earthquake Aid Regime Sidelines Those It Is Supposed to Help
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lindsay,Reed (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-03-29
- Published:
- New York, NY: The Nation Company
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Nation
- Journal Title Details:
- 290(12) : 18-22
- Notes:
- The problems associated with disaster relief assistance following the Haitian earthquake are described. International aid groups have been ineffective in reaching victims of the earthquake, as the poor administration of relief money has inadequately helped feed the population.
4. Keeping Haiti Safe: Police Reform
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- International Crisis Group (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2011-09-08
- Published:
- International Crisis Group
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 19 p., Discusses how Haiti's porous land and sea borders remain susceptible to drug trafficking, smuggling and other illegal activities that weaken the rule of law and deprive the state of vital revenue. Post-quake insecurity underscores continued vulnerability to violent crime and political instability. Overcrowded urban slums, plagued by deep poverty, limited economic opportunities and the weakness of government institutions, particularly the Haitian National Police (HNP), breed armed groups and remain a source of broader instability. If the Martelly administration is to guarantee citizen safety successfully, it must remove tainted officers and expand the HNP's institutional and operational capacity across the country by completing a reform that incorporates community policing and violence reduction programs.
5. Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: US Policy Options in the Case of Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clemens,Michael (Author) and Velayudhan,Tejaswi (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2011
- Published:
- Center for Global Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 4 p., The United States should take modest steps to create a legal channel for limited numbers of people fleeing natural disasters overseas to enter the United States. This would address two related problems: the lack of any systematic US policy to help the growing numbers of people displaced across borders by natural disasters and the inability of US humanitarian relief efforts to reduce systemic poverty or sustainably improve victims' livelihoods. The aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake presents a compelling case study of the administrative and legislative ways the US government could address both problems. Migration is already a proven and powerful force for reducing Haitians' poverty. A few modest changes in the US approach could greatly aid Haiti's recovery.
6. Rising From the Dust of GOUDOUGOUDOU
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ulysse,Gina Athena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Winter2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ms.
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(1) : 36-39
- Notes:
- Discusses the status of women in Haiti in terms of accessing basic needs and services and education. States that women's invisibility was overshadowed by global media's coverage of the 2010 earthquake, wherein people were exposed to extreme poverty and gender inequity. It adds that Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV) is one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that helped women victims from the prosecution of assailants.
7. Social Policies in Grenada: Social Policies in Small States Series, No. 2
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lewis,Patsy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Notes:
- 74 p., The country case studies and thematic papers in this series examine social policy issues facing small states and their implications for economic development. They show how, despite their inherent vulnerability, some small states have been successful in improving their social indicators because of the complementary social and economic policies they have implemented. This paper focuses on Grenada, a small state that has made impressive initial achievements in economic and human development since independence. However, continuing unemployment and poverty, the recent erosion of trade preferences, and the changing international donor aid environment have exposed structural weaknesses in its economic model. Tables, Figures, References.
8. The Education of Poverty: Rebuilding Haiti's School System After Its "Total Collapse"
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McNulty,Brendan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- Medford, MA: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(1) : 109-126
- Notes:
- Discusses the imperative to establish a functioning education system and explores how the earthquake exacerbated perennial challenges to the Haitian education system, while also perhaps offering some hope. Analyzes reconstruction efforts involving the Government of Haiti and such organizations as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, arguing that an education system premised on local ownership and focused on sustainability is Haiti's best hope.
9. Toward Reform of Defamation Law in the British Caribbean: Efforts at Reform in the United Kingdom and Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Watson,Roxanne (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2013
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Communication Law and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 155-216
- Notes:
- The ongoing review of defamation laws by the Jamaican government has sharpened the focus on the need to identify appropriate standards for public officials in libel actions in light of the growing recognition of a need for transparency. This article explores how British, Caribbean and U.S. jurisdictions have sought to manage the paradigm shift between the right to reputation and the need to ensure responsible and accountable governance. The aim is to identify a path of reform for Caribbean defamation law that ensures greater public official accountability and better incorporates twenty-first century notions of democracy.
10. Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maier,Elizabeth (Author) and Lebon,Nathalie (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 375 p, Contributors explore the emergence of the area’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Includes Helen Safa's "Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic ";