Human Rights and Aid Transparency in Haiti’s Roadmap to Recovery

DEVELOPMENTSOverwhelmed by sadness, empathy and disbelief, the world’s eyes and hearts have been focused for weeks on the rescue and relief efforts resulting from January’s earthquake in Haiti. However, many who have worked in Haiti fear that a preventable and long term disaster lies on the horizon if international interventions do not break with past patterns.

In recent years, U.S and international aid efforts that could be characterized, at best, as unsustainable and, at worst, deliberately harmful. As international aid begins to pour into Haiti, the global community has a brief moment to break with past mistakes and bring real change to Haiti.

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