· March, 2007

Stories about Haiti from March, 2007

Haiti, India: Becoming a local

Haitian blogger Pascale Doresca reflects [Fr] on the ways she is settling into life in India: “For while now I have not found the time to write, to be moved...

28 March 2007

Haiti: HOPE Act Implemented

Haiti Innovation applauds the implementation of preferential trade status for Haiti via the HOPE Act: “…this is a first step. There is still much to do in Haiti…but let this...

22 March 2007

Haitian Women Talk Feminisms

This past week, we covered how Kazakhstan and its Women, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, and South Asia blogged International Women's Day. Here, two Haitian bloggers write about...

12 March 2007

Third World Women Have a Ways to Go

For Women's Day, India-based Haitian Blogger Pascale Doresca compares [Fr] the lot of women in the third world to that in the first world and concludes: “Developed countries are far...

12 March 2007

Haiti: Make Women's Day Matter

After reminiscing disillusioned early engagements with Haitian feminist groups and an instance where she was not allowed to commission her son's birth certificate without her husband's authorization, Nancy Chapoteau of...

9 March 2007

Haiti: Goat on a Plane

New Haiti-based Haitian blogger (and published author) Nancy Chapoteau of Notedor.com writes about her strange encounter with a strange plane fellow on a flight from Cap Haitian to Port-au-Prince [Fr]:...

6 March 2007

Haiti, Dom. Rep.: Gaga = Rara?

Collectif Haiti de Provence wonders whether the Dominican “Gaga” tradition is not derived from the Haitian post carnival musical gatherings called “Rara” [Fr]: “Haitian tourists visiting the other side of...

5 March 2007