Haiti After the Earthquake (73 page)

From the title of the 1995 report of Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission that investigated the massive human rights violations of 1991–1994.

IASC Principles on Military-Civilian Relations,
January 1995; “Guiding and Operating Principles for the Use of Civil and Military Defense Assets in Support of Humanitarian Operations” (Task Force Report), September 2005. “Civil-Military Relationship in Complex Emergencies—An IASC Reference Paper,” June 2004;
Civil-Military Guidelines and References for Complex Emergencies,
OCHA, 2008;
Guidelines on the Use of Foreign Military and Civil Defense Assets in Disaster Relief
—
“Oslo Guidelines,”
Rev. 1.1, November 2007.

“Civil-Military Relationship in Complex Emergencies—An IASC Reference Paper,” Office of Humanitarian Coordination, United Nations, 2004,
http://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/w/lib.nsf/db900SID/DPAL-62GCWL?OpenDocument 2011
).

The White House, “United States Government Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response Update 1/21/10,”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/unitedstates-government-haiti-earthquake-disaster-response-update-12110
(accessed March 28, 2011).

Nicole Gastineau Campos and Paul Farmer, “Partners: Discernment and Humanitarian Efforts in Settings of Violence.”
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
31 (2003): 506–515.

Report of the Secretary-General on the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), September 18, 2009.

Decades of inexpensive food imports (coupled with food aid from well-meaning nonprofits) have destroyed local agriculture in Haiti.

In 2009, the OSE tracked more than US $1.7 billion in pledges of aid, including US $479 million from the April 2009 donors' conference in Washington, D.C.

Donors disbursed a total of $189 million was disbursed to the Government of Haiti and an additional $45 million through the Haiti Reconstruction Fund in the 2010 calendar year from the pledges made at the New York donors conference. The International Monetary Fund reports that during the Government of Haiti's fiscal year 2010 (1 October 2009–30 September 2010) donors committed $250 million in budget support to the Government of Haiti, of which $225 million was disbursed to the government.

More information on the UN briquette program at
http://www.haitispecialenvoy.org/press/celebrating-earth-day
(accessed April 22, 2010).