The origins of the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak
In 2010, just a few months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti and claimed so many victims, the country was hit by a cholera outbreak. It took the United Nations...
Haiti: tensions between aid relief and development in the health sector
Since 2010 and the surge of aid on Haiti, the Caribbean island has undoubtedly become the symbol of the failure of major international programmes. For the three authors the emergency...
Haiti: understanding the underwhelming appraisal of the international humanitarian efforts
Ten years after the earthquake that devastated “the Pearl of the West Indies”, which has become the “NGO Republic” according to some, the authors give us an opportunity to remember,...
GRET, a development NGO faced with a major emergency in an urban environment
Before being struck by an unforgettable earthquake, Port-au-Prince was a city. For this very reason it suffered so many deaths, injuries and devastations. The experience of GRET (former Group for...
Perspectives on a fractured world – Interview with William Daniels
Photos and Captions © William Daniels Interview for Humanitarian Alternatives by Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief Humanitarian Alternatives – Since you started out in photography almost twenty years ago, you have focused on social...
Advancing the participatory rights of Haitian children and youth in the context of migration
Young Haitians who wish to leave their environment to go to Port-au-Prince or further afield should be supported in their endeavour and helped in their choice. Reversing the “protective” and...
Reflections on patriarchy and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in the humanitarian sector
If the humanitarian sector is not immune to gender-based and sexual violence, it is because it is subject to patriarchal male-female dynamics, as are so many other sectors of society....
Haiti, or humanitarian ethics under question
The recent earthquake, or rather the succession of earthquakes in Nepal, confirms the fact: humanitarian action is increasingly subject to criticism. The charge of “humanitarian circus”, willingly uttered in the media...