by Colette Lespinasse | May 31, 2020 | Articles from COEH
Colette Lespinasse, representing the CoEH in Haiti, writes to us about the current situation in her country. She tells a story of a country where the pandemic is gaining ground while the people are left to fend for themselves, without any clear actions of the...
by Colette Lespinasse | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles from COEH
January 12, 2020, Haiti has commemorated the tenth anniversary of the devastating earthquake that took many lives and destroyed a large part of the country’s heritage. Around the world, in Europe as well as in America, this date has been remembered and many voices...
by Colette Lespinasse | Aug 26, 2019 | Articles from COEH
In Haiti more than 80% of school education is in hands of the private sector. In an extremely poor country as Haiti (in 2018, the national rate of poverty in the country is 58,9% while the level of extreme poverty lays at 23,8%)[1] this is considered an important...
by Colette Lespinasse | Jul 12, 2019 | Articles from COEH, Uncategorized
In June 2019, the United Nations Mission for the Support of Justice in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report on the massacre perpetrated on 13 and 14 November 2018 in La Saline, a popular district of...
by Colette Lespinasse | Jun 12, 2019 | Articles from COEH
Since June 1st, the hurricane season has started for Haiti and the entire Caribbean region. Even before that date, nature began to hold Haiti accountable for what it does, as a country, to its environment. Indeed, after a long period of drought, very heavy rains...
