MINUSTAH’s Gang Rapes | Nouveau cas de viol collectif de la MINUSTAH | Las violaciones colectivas de la MINUSTAH | Estupros Coletivos da MINUSTAH

By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy, A l’Encontre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translated by Diaro Octubre. MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Dady Chery’s Top 10 Reasons Why MINUSTAH Should Go | Les 10 premières raisons pour lesquelles la MINUSTAH devrait partir | Las 10 primeras razones para qué la MINUSTAH deba irse | Lista dos dez principais motivos pelos quais a MINUSTAH deveria ir-se

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Haitian Senate Calls for Withdrawal of U.N. Troops by October 2012 | Le Sénat haïtien demande le retrait de la MINUSTAH en Octobre 2012

Staff, HPN | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a resolution that calls for MINUSTAH’s departure by October 2012, but this resolution was non binding on the executive. (English | French)

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Haiti: Uruguayan People Demand MINUSTAH Withdrawal | El síndrome de la mano extraña: un país no es su gobierno

By Fernando Moyano, SURda | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Mujica fails to specify that this is an army of occupation soldiers. The proof that this is a military occupation is the fact that it violates the self-determination of people and promotes the moral degradation of the soldiery. (English | Spanish)

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Perlitz Gets 20 Years for Sex Abuse in Haiti, Fairfield University Sued

By Michael P. Mayko, CT Post | Edmund H. Mahony and Josh Kovner, Hartford Courant | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The surprise here is that Douglas Perlitz is having to do any time at all for raping nine Haitian boys and sadistically manipulating a host of others in his care.

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Interview With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by Nicolas Rossier

Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.

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Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictures or Demands for Aid Money

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.

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Domestic Workers in New York Win First-Ever Job Protections

By Tiffany Ten Eyck Labor Notes Domestic workers in New York have won historic changes to the state’s labor law to include protections for their jobs. Final votes on Thursday ended weeks of wrangling between state Assembly and Senate leaders … Continue reading →

A Valentine for My Restavek Mothers and the Stolen Children of Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One cannot talk about orphaned Haitian children without confronting two highly controversial and interwoven subjects: Vodou and restavek. Both are part of the very fabric of the Haitian family, which is currently under vicious attack.

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