Petionville
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Child Inmates Crowded Into Haiti's Dangerous Post-Quake Prisons By Alice Speri
Suze is the youngest of 58 minors currently incarcerated in Port-au-Prince’s penitentiaries, held next to adult inmates, with no trial and in degrading conditions, Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) denounced last month. Continue reading
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Haiti: Four weeks after earthquake hunger sparks growing protests By Bill Van Auken
On Sunday, Haiti saw one of its largest protests since the January 12 earthquake, as four weeks after the disaster, frustration with continuing hunger and homelessness mount. Thousands of demonstrators, most of them women, marched through the streets of Petionville, a Port-au-Prince suburb, denouncing the local mayor, Lydie Parent, for hoarding food for resale and… Continue reading
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