Pub­lished By Fran Quigley, Commonweal

On a swel­ter­ing after­noon in Port-au-Prince, I walked with a group of vis­it­ing U.S. human-rights lawyers up to a dusty lot filled …

By Tim Fen­ster, The Stylus

When the Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake struck Haiti, the island nation was briefly thrown into the inter­na­tional spot­light.
How­ever, Brian Con­can­non, direc­tor of the Institute …

By William Booth, The Wash­ing­ton Post

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Inter­na­tional aid worker Emmett Fitz­gerald has to get 20,000 very poor peo­ple squat­ting in front of the National …

By Deepa Pan­chang, Bev­erly Bell, and Tory Field

As Amer­i­cans were gear­ing up for last week’s Super Bowl cham­pi­onship, Haiti’s pres­i­dent Michel Martelly was on a …

The Florida Sen­ate departed from its rel­a­tive silence on immi­gra­tion issues Mon­day, pass­ing a memo­r­ial that encour­ages the fed­eral gov­ern­ment to ease travel restric­tions for …