Though both disasters were tragic, destructive, and heartbreaking, there are big differences between the situation in post-earthquake Haiti and life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. While the ...

Learning the lessons of Haiti is taking on added urgency because planners expect the world's natural disasters to grow in scope and frequency, as expanding populations crowd vulnerable coastlines and ...

BANGKOK – The effort to help Haiti recover from its devastating earthquake can draw on lessons learned in other large-scale tragedies, particularly the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least ...

The potential for a surge of Haitians arriving in South Florida after fleeing gang violence stirs memories of an earlier time when migrants fled political persecution in Haiti under the dictatorial ...

I BROUGHT a carton of books to children in Haiti, but they didn’t accept them as I expected. This was back in January 2011, when we were excavating a hillside for Be Like Brit, the orphanage I ...

Recently, it was my privilege to speak at the Haiti Tech Summit, where 500 leaders from throughout the western hemisphere shared a remarkable conversation about technology, entrepreneurship, ...

More than two hours after news broke about the devastating Haiti earthquake, McGovern was addressing a roomful of moneyed types in the high-ceilinged living room of an upscale Dallas residence.

In this lesson, students will watch the video Haiti: The Aid Dilemma and consider how the earthquake crisis affected the traditional system of supply and demand in Haiti’s rice economy. In addition, ...

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has fled his country in a recurrence of the violent disorder that has haunted the history of Haiti over and over again. Superficially, this should not be so. Some 95% ...

The images out of Haiti are haunting and horrifying: the bodies, the despair, the endless devastation, the desperate scramble for food and water. Watching this devastation from afar reminds me of ...