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  Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba.
Haiti has since become the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has been plagued by political violence and corrupt dictators for most of its history.
Haiti is a presidential republic with an elected president and National Assembly.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/h/ha/haiti.html   (845 words)

  
 Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti.
The occupation of Haiti continued after World War I, despite the embarrassment that it caused Woodrow Wilson at the Paris peace conference in 1919 and the scrutiny of a congressional inquiry in 1922.
Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Haiti   (2802 words)

  
 Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Les Cayemites, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; Haiti shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.
The total land area of Haiti is 10,714 square miles (27,750 square km) and its capital is Port-au-Prince on the main island of Hispaniola.
Haiti is currently in a state of anomy following a rebellion against its President.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haiti   (2413 words)

  
 Haiti
Centre, Haiti Centre is one of the nine Dominican Republic to the east.
Haiti Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of rebellion against its President.--> Dependencies...
The department is divided in 5 arrondissements: l'Arcahaie Croix-des...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/haiti.html   (479 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Haiti
The 2004 Haiti rebellion was a conflict fought for several weeks in Haiti during February 2004 that resulted in the premature end of President Jean-Bertrand Aristides second term, and the installment of an interim government led by Gerard Latortue.
GrandAnse is one of the nine departments of Haiti.
Haiti is one of the original members of the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies, as well as a member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Haiti   (5377 words)

  
 Haiti Departments
One PDF report on the 1995-06-25 elections says, "According to Haiti's electoral system, the country is divided into ten departments: the nine ordinary departments and the department of Nippes, the eastern part of the department of Grand' Anse" (my translation), suggesting that Nippes previously existed in some intermediate status.
Haiti has been an independent country for the whole of the 20th century, in theory.
The departments are subdivided into arrondissements, which are further subdivided into communes, which in turn are divided into sections communales (communal sections).
www.statoids.com /uht.html   (323 words)

  
 Map of Haiti Haiti Cities - Haitian Media
The nation of Haiti comprises the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, west of the Dominican Republic and between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean.
Haiti's geographic coordinates are at a longitude of 72° 25′ west and a latitude of 19° 00′ north.
Centre is one of the ten departments of Haiti, located in the center of the country, along the border with the Dominican Republic.
www.haitianmedia.com /index.php/23   (469 words)

  
 Haiti Article, Haiti Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti then established the world's first Black republic, making a commitment toend all slavery everywhere along with helping Venezuela, Peru and Colombia to achieve independence under such revolutionaryleaders as Bolívar and Miranda.
The State department of the United States subsequently provided a chartered plane to the Central African Republic, where Aristide left with his ownbodyguards and entourage.
Haiti is a presidential republic with an elected president and NationalAssembly.
www.anoca.org /president/main/haiti.html   (913 words)

  
 Embassy of Haiti -Haitian Living Abroard, February 7 2003
The Tenth Department contributes largely to the life and economy of Haiti, through remittances to their families (approximately $800 million annually), business ventures and charity programs, investing in business, shipping in of materials, and in their endless efforts to advance democracy in Haiti.
Haiti's population stands at approximately 8 million, while the Tenth Department is believed to be close to 2.5 million, with the majority residing in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Although these refugees are outside of Haiti, the Haitian government continues to assume their responsibility to ensure the rights and well-being of their people as well as to receive them warmly if they are returned back to Haiti.
www.haiti.org /Whatsnew/hla.htm   (916 words)

  
 WFP
The deworming campaign in the North and North East Departments of Haiti supported by WFP and covering almost 700,000 children is reaching its final stage.
In Haiti chronic malnutrition is widespread, with severe or moderate stunting affecting 42 percent of children under five.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and one of the most disadvantaged countries in the developing world.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/americas/haiti/050603_haiti_deworming.htm   (1079 words)

  
 Haiti 1988 - Chapter IV
Haiti, which is primarily a rural peasant society, has undergone its most dramatic evolution as regards the organization of the peasant population.
Peasants comprise approximately 80% of Haiti's 5.7 million population and peasant organizations called "groupements" have been in the process of formation during the past 15 years.
At present, the organized peasant movement in Haiti has approximately 200,000-250,000 members and in May 1987 the representatives of these peasant organizations held their First National congress in the village of Papaye in the Central Plateau.
www.cidh.org /countryrep/Haiti88eng/chap.4.htm   (3660 words)

  
 Haiti - RSCI, The Science Classification Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of Gonâve, Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti.
Haiti then established the world's first Black republic, making a commitment to end all slavery everywhere along with helping Venezuela, Peru and Colombia to achieve independence under such revolutionary leaders as Bolívar and Miranda.
While Jeanne was only a tropical storm at the time with weak winds, the rains caused large mudslides and coastal flooding which killed more than 1,500 people and left 200,000 starving and homeless.
www.scienceindex.org /Haiti.html   (1326 words)

  
 USAID, the CIA, and the Coup in Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
That terrorist organization was responsible for some 5,000 murders in the wake of the military coup that removed Aristide from his first term as elected president.
By this he apparently means that Aristide, who (as even Powell's State Department concedes) indisputably won 60 percent of the 2000 election, should be forced to form a coalition government with the heavily subsidized detritus who now wage war in the streets of Hinche and Cap Haitien - or else step down.
I was in Haiti in the spring of 2001 to meet with my Haitian counterparts on the staff of an international nongovernmental organization.
www.prisonplanet.com /030104coupinhaiti.html   (755 words)

  
 USAID: Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti’s 200-year history has been marked by political instability and weak institutional capacity, resulting in a severely debilitated economy and an impoverished population.
The situation in Haiti has stabilized since the civil crisis in February and March 2004 and humanitarian operations have transitioned from emergency operations to rehabilitation and development.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (State/PRM) has provided a total of $920,000 in response to the Haiti complex emergency to date in FY 2004.
www.usaid.gov /haiti   (2079 words)

  
 Haiti Reborn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haitian and international media.
In a news release read by Father Andre Pierre, the bishops, who did not clearly indicate that the proposal was being withdrawn, explained their position by the fact that some sectors that had been invited to join in dialogue with a view to resolving the crisis had ignored their invitation.
Aristide may have failings in his ability to negotiate the vicious power divide between Haiti’s economic elite and its broader masses, but US policy has created an environment in which it is impossible for him to succeed.
www.quixote.org /hr/news/haitireport/1-25-2004.php   (2419 words)

  
 SEED Haiti News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For two weeks in November, 30 peasants from 7 of the 9 departments in Haiti gathered in Papay to participate in a course on solar energy, theory, applications, and manufacture of solar panels.
In 2004 it is unjust and unnecessary for families to live in the dark, with only candlelight for study or work in the evening.
In January 2004, in spite of growing unrest in Haiti, twenty two peasants from 5 organizations again gathered in Papay at the National Peasant Training Center to study about drip irrigation.
www.seedhaiti.org /news_drip.html   (307 words)

  
 Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti.
In mid-September 2004, Haiti was soaked by the flooding rains of Hurricane Jeanne.
Since September 30th,2004,at the 13th anniversary of the coup d'etat against Aristide,his supporters mainly located at the slum of Bel-Air have launched Operation Baghdad against the interim government and caused the death of more than 70 civilians,on both sides.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ha/Haiti.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haiti then established the world's first Black republic, making a commitment to end all slavery everywhere along with helping Venezuela, Peru and Colombia to achieve independence under such revolutionary leaders as Simón BolívarBolívar and Miranda.
He alleges he was kidnapped from Haiti by a group of Haitians, 20 US soldiers, and 19 American employees of a private American security company called the Steele Foundation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When Haiti's interim government was named 20 months ago, rules were established making the transitional leaders ineligible to run in the next election to ensure they wouldn't use their offices to advance personal political agendas.
www.infothis.com /find/Haiti   (3155 words)

  
 Non for profit
The Haiti Hope Fund is a nonprofit that fights poverty in Haiti through education.
North Haiti Mission was formed to bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ: to teach His words, to minister His love, and to touch the broken hearted.
Haiti Interface is intended as an ongoing platform for the exchange of information related to human rights, cultural, environmental and social issues in Haiti.
www.haiticentral.com /nonforprofit.htm   (716 words)

  
 America ’s Development Foundation (ADF) -- ADF Programs in Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ADF initiated its work in Haiti in 1985, shortly before Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was deposed as "President for Life." Since that time, ADF has provided assistance to the Haitian people in their struggle for democracy without pause.
ADF’s series of dialogues held in Haiti's nine departments on the issues of decentralization, economic growth and poverty alleviation, brought together over 1,400 representatives of civil society organizations from different points of view in a constructive, policy-oriented debate with public officials.
ADF works with more than 400 popular organizations in twenty communes of Haiti to increase their understanding of the concepts of democratic governance and the role they have to play in strengthening democratic governance in Haiti, and to expand the number and quality of actions they undertake that strengthen democratic governance in the country.
www.adfusa.org /countries_haiti.htm   (1501 words)

  
 Press Release | Catholic Relief Services
Haiti’s north, the Departments of the North (Cap Haitien), Northwest (Port de Paix), and the Artibonite (Gonaives) sustained heavy losses following widespread flooding after the passage of Hurricane Jeanne.
Haiti’s government has declared a national disaster and decreed three days of mourning.
CRS’ Baltimore headquarters has already committed $130,000 to the Haiti relief effort thus far, and CRS Haiti won $14,000 from Comme Il Faut, a private enterprise, for the purchase of food and non-food items.
www.catholicrelief.org /about_us/newsroom/press_releases/releases.cfm?ID=239   (326 words)

  
 Haiti Travels Who We Are
DOA/BN (pronounced dwa-bay-n in Creole) is a not-for-profit organization founded in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1993 by Carla Bluntschli and Harry Nicolas (currently a major funder for "The Memory Village") that provides historical and cultural seminars, guided tours and immersion experiences throughout Haiti's ten geographical departments.
Haiti's deep roots of wrenching history and compelling truths will offer you their gifts of new understandings.
Our vision is to connect you with Haiti's people and history, to recapture the community of their shared daily lives through intercultural experiences.
haititravels.org /whoweare.htm   (434 words)

  
 Hait - Travelling to Haiti - Holidays in Haiti www.reiswijs.co.uk
Yet Haiti is also noted for its history as a retreat for writers - Anthony Trollope, Ian Flemming, Alexandre Dumas, Graham Greene and Eugene O'Neill - and Thomson wonderfully explores their Haitian adventures.
The music of Haiti is influenced most greatly by French colonial ties and African immigration (through slavery), as well as by its neighbor, the Dominican Republic.
Haiti, home to over 6 million people, is one of the most popular destinations for travellers world-wide.
www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/caribbean/haiti/haiti.html   (1428 words)

  
 Yannick Etienne: Workers' Rights in Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yannick Etienne: Haiti is in the midst of a long-term social, economic and political crisis.
And this enormous enterprise is being set up in a rural area of Haiti, on land that was used to feed a lot of agricultural workers, that was taken over by Grupo M. This is a crime, considering that Haiti has very limited land for growing food.
Haiti’s army was demobilised in 1995, so it cannot effectively police the workers — though no doubt the new government will change that.
www.grassrootsonline.org /gol_102804_batay.html   (1671 words)

  
 Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1922 Louis Borno replaced Dartiguenave, who was forced out of office for temporizing over the approval of a debt consolidation loan.
By 1930 President Herbert Hoover had become concerned about the effects of the occupation, particularly after a December 1929 incident in Les Cayes in which marines killed at least ten Haitian peasants during a march to protest local economic conditions.
On a visit to Cap Haïtien in July 1934, Roosevelt reaffirmed an August 1933 disengagement agreement.
www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Haiti   (2795 words)

  
 HAITI FACTS AND INFORMATION
Freed fls and mulattos joined with slaves against Napoleonic France to achieve the Caribbean's first successful revolution for independence.
Furthermore, Haiti suffered badly during 2004 with floods hitting the Fonds Verettes and Mapou region in May 2004 and Hurricane Jeanne hitting the Gonaives area that September Tropical storm Jeanne http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sfl-0923haitigallery,0,7266223.photogallery.
The only storm to have impacted Haiti, Hurricane_Dennis, resulted in a significantly lesser loss of life (less than 200 fatalities) http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/06/tropical.weather/.
www.palfacts.com /Haiti   (2226 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Haiti's clean-up progresses in the Caribbean
It seems like eons ago when Tropical Storm Jeanne skirted the northern departments of Haiti last September and unleashed a deluge of water down its mountain passes.
Adding to nature’s wrath, Haiti’s political unrest added to the turmoil, as the country’s gangs fought each other over the relief supplies distributed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, heightening an already tense security environment.
USAID views its role in Haiti in two phases: the first in providing $8 million in immediate relief to the victims (usually in the form of food, temporary shelter, medicine and emergency health care) and the second $38 million to begin the reconstruction of roads, public buildings, drainage canals, homes and small infrastructure.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-69GU4A?OpenDocument   (782 words)

  
 U.S. Accomplishments in Haiti — 2004
In 2004, Haiti suffered the twin ordeals of violent political unrest that forced the resignation of President Aristide and two devastating floods that caused widespread death and destruction.
USAID is collaborating with the Department of Defense’s New Horizons to provide renovations and equipment to public and private health care facilities in 10 health departments of Haiti.
USAID continues to participate in the re-opening of the Gonaives Hospital and is reprogramming additional funds to support essential services in the regional department with the Ministry of Health.
www.state.gov /p/wha/rls/fs/2005/40841.htm   (792 words)

  
 Resources on Haiti
DOA/BN Haiti Travels, http://www.geocities.com/haitiantravelers/index.html DOA/BN (pronounced DWA-BAY-N in Kreyol) is a private business providing historical and cultural seminars and guided tours since 1992 throughout Haiti's nine departments.
Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment, http://oreworld.org is working to improve environmental, agricultural and economic conditions in rural Haiti, involving high revenue tree crops, improved seeds, cash crops and marketing programs.
Windows on Haiti, http://windowsonhaiti.com An nou koupe tèt enjistis, boule kay la mizè, so in the year 2004, Toussaint, Dessalines, Christophe, Pétion, Capois, and all of the heroes and heroines who made 1804 a reality look down on us and see that they did not struggle in vain.
ayiti.com /links   (598 words)

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