Confronting the Legacies of Slavery
Calls in the Caribbean for reparations are an occasion to face the many ways in which the past continues to shape the...
Month: October 2013
Dominicans of Haitian Descent Cast Into Legal Limbo by Court
The nation’s top court has declared that the children of undocumented Haitian migrants — even those born on Dominican soil decades ago — are no longer entitled to...
Caribbean Nations to Seek Reparations, Putting Price on Damage of Slavery
Fourteen countries plan to compile an inventory of the harm caused by the slave trade and then demand an apology and reparations from the former colonial powers Britain, France and the...
Australia Struggles to Control Wildfires in New South Wales
The fires, stretching along a 190-mile front, have killed one man, destroyed 208 homes and damaged 122 others, the Rural Fire Service...
Red, White and Blue Reprieve for Mexico
The complicated relationship between American and Mexican soccer fans took an unusual turn when Mexico dodged elimination in qualifying for the World Cup thanks to a United States...
Milder Accounts of Hardships Under Mao Arise as His Birthday Nears
As the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth approaches, some are playing down the devastation of the famine that gripped China from 1958 to...
Group Says Haitian Garment Workers Are Shortchanged on Pay
The Worker Rights Consortium reported the “theft” of part of the income legally due to the...
Peacekeeping by U.N. Faces New Scrutiny on 2 Fronts
The United Nations was charged in a lawsuit with gross negligence in Haiti’s cholera epidemic, and accused by an anticorruption organization of oversight lapses in its own peacekeeping...
Rights Advocates Suing U.N. Over the Spread of Cholera in Haiti
Advocates for Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic that afflicted the country three years ago are suing the United Nations, saying its peacekeepers introduced the disease through sewage...
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