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Angelina Jolie desvela su lucha para evitar el cáncer y su confesión se convierte en un ejemplo. La actriz viajó de incógnito durante tres meses al Centro Médico Pink Lotus de Beverly Hills

El tipo de cambio artificial hace que en Venezuela resulte más barato importar que producir. La inversión extranjera cae

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital....

Decenas de casos de violaciones a los derechos humanos ocurridos en el pasado de reciente de América Latina y el Caribe esperan por ser juzgados y miles de víctimas, esperan justicia

Lawyers representing Haiti cholera victims give the UN 60 days to respond before filing lawsuit against the agency.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera victims, apologize to the Caribbean nation for introducing the disease through its peacekeeping force, and launch a major effort to improve sanitation....

A prominent hotelier in Haiti says former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to rebuild his political party as the country prepares for elections.

El primer ministro de Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, dijo hoy que "las políticas de integración" del fallecido presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez "continuarán" y que ello se verificará mañana en la VII Cumbre de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de Petrocaribe, ampliada con representantes de la ALBA. "Con la reunión de Petrocaribe continuarán las políticas de integración...

Petra Nemcova no protagonizó 'Lo imposible': "Era mi playa, mi hotel, mi historia al 90%". La modelo checa es la nueva embajadora de Pronovias

Haiti is no economic success story. But that may be about to change.

Style icon Donna Karan is synonymous with American fashion. The mega successful designer has dressed the world's most beautiful women, like Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Ashley Greene. Yet, off the runway, Donna's heart belongs to Haiti.

Haiti police say they have made an arrest after a 62-year-old priest from Quebec was gunned down, last week

Esta semana se retomaron las negociaciones entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las FARC. De estas difíciles conversaciones depende el legado político del presidente colombiano

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Canadian missionary was shot to death on Thursday as he left a bank in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to local media reports.

Haiti has been battling a massive cholera outbreak since, roughly, around the time international aid groups arrived in the country following the 2010 earthquake. Now, genetic evidence links the strain of cholera in Haiti to a rare strain native to Nepal — further proof that it was Nepalese UN Peacekeepers who brought cholera to Haiti. [...]    

La economía de América Latina y el Caribe crecerá un 3,5 % en 2013 debido a una mejora de Brasil y Argentina, según informó hoy la Cepal, que, sin embargo, rebajó en tres décimas su previsión de diciembre pasado para la región. En un balance económico actualizado difundido hoy, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (Cepal) prevé que las economías...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti has violated international human rights obligations by failing to protect people who have been forced to leave the impromptu settlements that sprang up in the Caribbean nation after the 2010 earthquake, a global advocacy group said Tuesday....

Venezuela ha padecido la opresión como ningún otro país, y como ningún otro ha valorado la libertad

LES ANGLAIS, Haiti -- Little comes easy in this tiny coastal village where kids fill plastic buckets with charcoal to sell at market and women sweep bean pods into tidy mounds alongside pastel-painted mud and concrete houses. [More]

Headline Title:  Haiti: Protester ‘beaten to death by police’ following attack on camp 17 April 2013 Allegations that a man died after being beaten by the police as he took part in a protest against an arson attack on a camp for displaced people...

CANAPÉ VERTE, Haiti -- Robert Naylor walks the perimeter of an electricity substation high above the earthquake-battered capital of Port-au-Prince, pointing out new batteries, switches and transformers that his construction company, Perini Management Corp., installed here as part of a $12.7 million U.S. Agency for International Development project to strengthen Haiti's...

Panamá es considerado el principal país latinoamericano en cuanto a disponibilidad de capital de riesgo, según el informe global de TI para el 2013 del Foro Económico Mundial (FEM). Las calificaciones están basadas en encuestas a 15.000 líderes empresariales de los 144 países incluidos en el informe. Basados en estas calificaciones, Panamá se ubicó en el lugar...

Central American nation Panama is seen as the top country in Latin America in terms of venture capital availability, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) global IT report for 2013. The rankings are based on survey responses from 15,000 business leaders from the 144 countries included in the report. Based on these rankings, Panama was rated number 17 worldwide,...

Google Person Finder, a tool the company built following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, has been activated for use following the deadly Boston Marathon explosions Monday afternoon. Shortly after launching, the Person Finder homepage says it's tracking about 800 records As the tool is being populated, you can either search for someone or share information about someone's...

A plan to colonize recently freed slaves on an island near Haiti goes terribly awry.    

Knowing that Wolverine is a sensitive sort, Hugh Jackman firmly believes that his X-Man alter-ego would be all about helping those in need. "Wolverine is for Haiti, a hundred...

Knowing that Wolverine is a sensitive sort, Hugh Jackman firmly believes that his X-Man alter-ego would be all about helping those in need. "Wolverine is for Haiti, a hundred...

El primer restaurante que José Andrés abrió en EE UU se ha convertido en el catalizador de la resurrección cultural y gastronómica de Washington

Work to complete the decentralization of the Dominican Republic's national water authority Inapa in the border provinces of Elías Piña, Pedernales and Independencia, will conclude by year-end, Mercedes García, manager of potable water and sanitation projects in the Dominican Republic for Spanish international cooperation agency for development (Aecid), told BNamericas. "Tenders...

Ein Roman über die tropische Variante des Faschismus: Kettly Mars erzählt in "Wilde Zeiten" von der Diktatur in Haiti. Von Hans-Christoph Buch

A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating earthquake finds much of the money went to U.S.-based companies and organizations.

A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating earthquake finds much of the money went to U.S.-based companies and organizations.

A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating earthquake finds much of the money went to U.S.-based companies and organizations.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, former President Bill Clinton apologized for long championing food aid policies that helped Arkansas rice growers but made it harder for the impoverished country to grow its own crop....

Britain was praised for standing against the trend of cutting aid budgets as it leapfrogged Germany in the world aid league table. Flood victims in Haiti are pictured receiving sacks of grain.

A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of drought and the impact of recent tropical storms.

Gotzone Mora cargó 78 desplazamientos por tertulias de radio y televisión

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The United Nations said Tuesday that a growing number of people in Haiti are not getting enough to eat following a heavy storm season that damaged food crops....

Monatelang besuchte die Fotografin Nathalie Mohadjer die Bewohner eines Obdachlosenheims in Weimar. So entstanden die Porträts für ihren Bildband "Zwei Bier für Haiti".

No matter what your personal views of Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons are, I think we can all agree that he is philanthropic and he uses his money and clout to help those in need. I want to share a video from Bob Parson’s blog, which chronicles his visit to Haiti to help victims of [...]The post Go Daddy Founder Visits Haiti to Help Earthquake Victims appeared first on...

Es gibt da eine Geschichte, die man sich in Cité Soleil gerne erzählt: Zwei verhasste Bandenmitglieder liegen tot im Dreck, erschossen, und die Unterdrückten sehen still zu, wie die beiden Leichen von riesigen schwarzen Schweinen genüsslich aufgefressen werden. Cité Soleil, Teil von Haitis Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince, hat grob geschätzt eine halbe Million Bewohner....

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHARLES YOUNG BUFFALO SOLDIERS NATIONAL MONUMENT - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Colonel Charles Young was the highest ranking African-American commanding officer in the United States Army from 1894 until his death in 1922. He also served as the first African-American superintendent of a national park,...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, a vast expanse of grim cinderblock homes on a mountainside in the nation's capital, is getting a psychedelic makeover that aims to be part art and part homage....

Rory McIlroy will spend part of his week before the Masters on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. McIlroy will meet with children and their families April 1 and 2.

East Room 11:36 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you so much.  (Applause.)  Well, good morning, everybody.  Secretary Napolitano, thank you for administering the oath and making it official.  Director Mayorkas, distinguished guests, family and friends, it is a great pleasure to have you here at the White House.  And it is an honor to be among the first to greet some...

Pope Francis leans over to kiss a baby after celebrating his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. Penitents in white robes and pointed white hats wait outside a church before a procession in Seville, Spain. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a woman grasps palm fronds and a rosary while praying during an outdoor Mass at an earthquake-damaged cathedral....

The aid group AmeriCares responds to an editorial, “A Worsening Haitian Tragedy.”

Tauroni justifica el intercambio de sobres con el exconsejero diciendo que se pasaban currículos. El imputado reconoce que transfirió 20.000 dólares a un jefe de área de la consejería

Del desvío de subvenciones públicas de la Comunidad Valenciana destinadas a las ONGs sorprende el ambiente de impunidad de los imputados, que seguían al consejero Blasco para “montarse el chiringuito”

Breaking the political impasse that has plagued Haiti for some 16 months is crucial to achieve progress and consolidate democracy in the country, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Les efforts de Sean Penn pour aider Haïti ne sont pas passés inaperçus. L'association J/P Haitian Relief Organization de l'acteur militant vient de recevoir une...

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Actor Sean Penn's charity the J/P Haitian Relief Organisation is to receive a grant of $8.75 million to re-house victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Sean Penn's efforts in Haiti are not going unnoticed. The actor-activist's J/P Haitian Relief Organization has received an $8.75 million grant from the World Bank to help those...

Haiti needs to develop a coordinated plan of action on human rights and a framework on the rule of law, an independent United Nations expert has said, noting that while positive changes are coming very slowly, there is a strong expectation from Haitians to see improvements.

The top United Nations humanitarian official in Haiti has expressed grave concern about recent incidents of forced evictions of internally displaced persons (IDPs), following his visit to a site in the capital, Port-au-Prince, from which thousands of people were forced to leave.

Más de 2.500 efectivos realizan en Segovia el primer gran ejercicio en España de simulación de una emergencia nacional, con una hipótesis de 500 muertos

To speak of 'the left' in Latin America, post-Chávez, makes no sense. It displays the same complexity and nuances as the continent itself, says celebrated Colombian writer Héctor Abad By virtue of being the most diverse and hybrid area on the planet, Latin America is a kind of potpourri that is difficult to understand due to the number of ingredients...

An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up a visit to Haiti by calling for the strengthening of State institutions so they can play their key role in the running of the country and in the functioning of democracy.

Here you’ll find Creole is the lingua franca, voodoo is practised, art flourishes and locals dance to the latest tunes from Port-au-Prince

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Vor Gericht hat Jean-Claude Duvalier seine Präsidentschaft verklärt: Die Haitianer hätten annehmbar gelebt. An Folter und politischen Morden will er nicht schuld sein.

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier appears in court on corruption and human rights violations.

Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, walked into a packed courtroom on Thursday and for the first time answered questions about his brutal, 15-year reign.

Earlier this week, John Ging, director of operations for the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), returned from a four-day trip to Mali to remind governments that the world's relief agency is short of funds for its life-saving work in Mali. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency's 2013 appeal for $373 million, he said, has resulted...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Sean Penn remembers smelling dead bodies when he arrived in Haiti after the earthquake....

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