Can elections take place while human rights violations continue?

World Press Freedom Review: The state of the media in Haiti in 2005 - Charles Arthur, International Press Institute

Haiti Support Group press release: Action by civil society organizations yields result - 4 November 2005

Safeguarding Haiti's Pine Forest - Lutheran World Federation Haiti programme

Final declaration of the national mobilisation on Agriculture in Haïti and the Political Project - 16 October 2005

Haitian sweatshop boss gives journalists the run-around - 18 October 2005

Massacre of football fans raises state terror fears - Reed Lindsay, 29 August 2005

Haiti Support Group concerned about proposals that threaten to limit media freedom - 8 August 2005

Can Haiti Hold Elections in 2005? - International Crisis Group, 3 August 2005

"The workers must come forward with their own alternative" - Batay Ouvriye July 2005 newsletter

Haiti: Disarmament delayed, justice denied - Amnesty International, 28 July 2005

Batay Ouvriye denounces violence

Who is to blame for rash of kidnappings? - 18 July 2005

A tribute to Jacques Roche - tireless defender of the poor! Let's mobilise against his murder - GARR, PAPDA, SOFA, etc., 16 July 2005

Haitian students back on the streets - 10 June 2005

Armed gangsters pose more problems for flood victims in Gonaïves - 7 June 2005

Civil society organisations speak out against military-style solutions - 30 May 2005

Teachers' union leader rails against high cost of living

Spoiling security in Haiti - International Crisis Group report, 31 May 2005

Jérémie - Drought, poverty, hunger and little foreign aid, IPS, 7 June 2005

Ayiti - A people in search of a country - João Alexandre Peschanski

Horrors persist in Cité Soleil - Miami Herald, 31 May 2005

Supreme court overturning sentences for Raboteau massacre is huge step backwards, Amnesty International, 26 May 2005

A concrete irrigation canal makes all the difference: Saint-Marc - Paul Constance, IADB, 10 May 2005

National Police must be held accountable for killings of civilians, Amnesty International press release, 29 April 2005

Violence, repression endanger prospects for fair elections in Haiti - National Catholic Reporter, 29 April 2005

How many police are there in the Haitian police force? - Haiti Support Group press release, 27 April 2005, and later update

The significance of the Ravix/Grenn Sonnen killings - 23 April 2005

Hundreds killed amid rampant impunity - Human Rights Watch press release, 14 April 2005

Water at the end of the road: Les Irois, Grand'Anse - Paul Constance, IADB, 19 April 2005

La Sciere Killings by Anne Fuller, Le Nouvelliste, 9 April 2005

As Polls Near, Challenges Pile Up - IPS, 5 April 2005

PAPDA's Camille Chalmers urges withdrawal of UN troops

Rewinding History: The Rights of Haitian Women - The Let Haiti Live Women's Rights Delegation report

"Keeping the Peace in Haiti?" - report on the UN mission in Haiti by the Harvard Law School/Global Justice Centre (Centro de Justiça Global) - March 2005

Increased violence cripples the country’s backbone: women - The Haitian Times, 9 March 2005

Lack of jobs forces Haitians to become street vendors - The Haitian Times, 9 March 2005

Stability still eludes Haiti - Reed Lindsay, 8 March 2005

Haiti's transition and elections by Madeleine Desnoyers - Rights & Democracy, Canada - March 2005

Factions of Aristide party look to different futures - Los Angeles Times, 7 March 2005

Death of a democracy - The Independent, 28 February 2005

Haiti: In Bondage to History? - Jane Regan, NACLA, 9 February 2005

Haiti's transition hanging in the balance - International Crisis Group report, 8 February 2005

Elections yes, human rights violations no - Haiti Support Group press release, 12 January 2005

Background

What happened in Haiti under the Latortue government in 2004
Hurricane Jeanne and the September 2004 flood disaster
The political context of the collapse of the Lavalas Family government in February 2004
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