Articles by Isabeau Doucet
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What the UN Owes Haiti
Isabeau Doucet – The Nation,
22 Apr 2013
In Haiti, where there is no sewage system, and where access to water and sanitation is mostly privatized, cholera has been a death sentence: more than 8,000 people have died and 640,000 (and counting) made ill since it was imported by UN peacekeepers from Nepal in Oct 2010, according to a host of scientific studies. It is now the worst cholera epidemic in modern history.
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Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet - The Nation,
25 Jul 2011
In the wake of Haiti’s earthquake, the Clinton Foundation promised hurricane shelters that would double as classrooms. But they delivered shoddy, formaldehyde-ridden trailers from the same company that supplied FEMA after Hurricane Katrina.
→ read full articleWhy Desperate Haitians Want to Kick Out UN Troops
Isabeau Doucet – The Guardian,
22 Nov 2010
It’s a familiar pattern – in the 1980s, when Aids first came to the world’s attention, Haitians were stigmatised as one of the four Hs – homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin users and Haitian – having brought the disease to the US. But, like cholera, Aids was not indigenous to Haiti and is only now ravaging the country because somebody else brought it in. And, while Haitians face stigmatisation from their neighbours once again, the world must take its share of the blame. The real question is: why? Why is there crippling poverty? Why no water, sanitation or medical infrastructure?
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