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Montreal Gazette article: Women in storms' path

Submitted by CHAN on September 5, 2010 - 10:18
Water and food distribution in Port au Prince

Women in storms' path

By Sue Montgomery. The Gazette (Montreal) September 4, 2010

It's normal, an aid worker told her, not to menstruate after suffering severe trauma such as an earthquake. But when her period still hadn't shown up five months after January's massive tremor that claimed the lives of her husband and hundreds of thousand others in Port-au-Prince, the desperate woman spent a precious $2 on a pill to abort the fetus she knew she could never support. After a night of writhing in pain under her tarp and next to her three children, the pale and weak woman sought help at a local makeshift clinic.

Haiti Liberté editorial on political situation, upcoming election

Submitted by CHAN on August 31, 2010 - 20:57
Demonstration

Our Position on the Political Situation in Haiti

By Berthony Dupont. Editor, Haiti Liberté

This editorial appeared in the August 11 issue of Haiti Liberté. The translation from the original French was done by CHAN website editors. Haiti Liberté  is a weekly newspaper published in Brooklyn, USA and Port au Prince in Kreyol, French and English (one page in English per issue) and distributed in Haiti, North America and elsewhere.  You can subscribe online for US$20 per year, or by post (in Canada, for US$125 per year).

Vox Sambou and the Solid'Ayiti initiative for Haiti

Submitted by CHAN on August 25, 2010 - 21:51
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Interview by Stefan Christoff

 

Published on rabble.ca, August 13, 2010. Please refer to the original article posting on Rabble to access footnotes.

 

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