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Humanity & Inclusion is a founding member of the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international civil society campaign that works to erase the production and storage of all the munition. [5] In February 2006, Belgium became the first country to enact such a ban as a result of Handicap International's public awareness and advocacy efforts. [6]
Canada is Haiti's second largest donor after the United States. During the unsettled period from 1957 to 1990, Canada received many Haitian refugees, who now form a significant minority in Quebec. Canada participated in various international interventions in Haiti between 1994 and 2004, and continues to provide substantial aid to Haiti. [16]
On 25 January Handicap International published a statement that an estimated 1,000 amputations had taken place due to injuries. In response to the quake the organization dispatched 30 rehabilitation and health staff to Haiti and announced that they would eventually increase staff numbers to 100 and provide hundreds of prostheses. [38]
Haiti’s people deserve peace, stability, and hope for the future. The U.S. and U.N. — all Haiti has standing between chaos — must do everything possible to deliver help.
For more than two years the Biden administration has been pushing for a Haitian-led approach to solving Haiti’s spiraling gang violence and deepening humanitarian, social and political crisis.
As part of the polling, Haitians were asked how they perceived their police’s capacity to take on armed gangs and if they were comfortable with the deployment of an international force ...
The International Civilian Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH, from the French: Mission civile internationale en Haïti) [1] was a joint civilian mission in Haiti by the United Nations and the Organization of American States. [2] It was created in February 1993, with a mandate focussed on protection of human rights and legitimate state institutions.
A week after Organization of American States head Luis Almagro blamed the “international community” for contributing to Haiti’s descent into chaos, some members finally broke their silence ...