This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers ...

Oxfam works with men and women farmers in the rice-growing area of Haiti’s Artibonite Valley to raise their ... the majority of the region’s 1.6 million inhabitants in a cycle of poverty. Currently, ...

Despite a slight decrease in overall extreme poverty in Haiti, the number of poor remains extremely high ... Special attention should be given to vulnerable groups such as women and children and to ...

As ongoing gang violence and unrest bring down the living conditions in Haiti, humanitarian groups sound the alarm on human ...

The images flashed on TV and published in the daily papers show a grim situation in Haiti. People in the Hutchinson area, just as across the world, are responding with an outpouring of support. The ...

Nearly 60% of the population lives below the poverty line. In recent months, Haiti has descended into a critical state ... close to 4,000 cases of gender-based violence were reported – 94% by women ...

As Angeline Annesteus, country director of ActionAid Haiti, says: “Women and girls are already ... could push many more families into poverty and hunger.” With many people’s homes being ...

an advisor to Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), is urging women to play a more meaningful role in the future socio-economic development of the French-speaking Caribbean Community ...