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2. 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.
3. La reconstruction d'Haïti : l'extrême pauvreté : un enjeu fondamental
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gedeon,Jean (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Paris: Editions L'Harmattan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 156 p., The reconstruction of Haiti following the earthquake of January 12, 2010 was institutionalized through the creation of the Commission Interimaire pour la reconstruction d'Haiti (Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti, CIRH). More than a year later, the outlook for human rights in Haiti has not changed despite the great promise and strong rhetoric of change. This study seeks to provide evidence for understanding the many facets of extreme poverty in Haiti from a human rights perspective.
4. Le vertige haïtien : réflexions sur un pays en crise permanente
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Saint Louis,Rose Nesmy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- Paris: Editions L'Harmattan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 335 p., This study offers in-depth discussion and a new approach to interpreting the failure of the nation state and the chronic weakness of economic development in Haiti. It illustrates, through presentations and recommendations, how the road to true democracy and the eradication of endemic poverty in Haiti has to go through the establishment of the rule of law and strong and sustained economic growth.
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. Overcoming obstacles
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 26-Jun 1, 2011
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 22 : 4A
- Notes:
- Poverty and suffering are nothing new to the brave Haitian people. They have survived the hellish reign of the murderous dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier and, later, his son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Dulavier. They have lived through the nightmare of one military coup after another, barely existing at lower than subsistence levels. They have had to pay ransom money to France because they dared to fight for their freedom.
7. Population aging : is Latin America ready?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cotlear,D. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Workshop on Demographic Change and Social Policy in Latin America ; (2009 : Washington, D.C.)., 286 p, Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more rapidly are in LAC. Population aging will pose challenges and offer opportunities.
8. Population aging : is Latin America ready?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cotlear,Daniel (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 286 p., Explores three sets of issues. First covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process.
9. 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.
10. 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.