Keeping Haiti Safe: Police Reform

The International Crisis Group has released a report on the importance of police reforms for security in Haiti, meaning freedom from intimidation and abuse, conflict and violence, and crime and impunity.  The release comes during a time in which Brazil and other partner nations are increasingly contemplating a gradual drawdown of MINUSTAH staffing. This provides the [...]

International Action Update (7/15/2011)

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) conditions in Port-au-Prince were not good even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake.  Perversely, the poor often paid the most for drinking water.  Against this backdrop, a number of international organizations and non-governmental organizations are working with the Haitian government to help establish a more effective and equitable water system.  [...]

Travel and life

And did you ever have when you want to change everything, and somewhere to go? Leave the house all life, read descriptions of travel and go somewhere where it will be warm sun and unusual sea? Or the endless fields and endless deserts or high mountains? and not so important that it is important that [...]