Haiti and the forgotten fundamentalists
Do we ignore the dangers inherent in hysterical fundamentalism in all faiths at our peril? Jon Snow asks why religious fundamentalism is developing a stranglehold on societies across the world.
Landina will die unless she can get an operation abroad to remove the dead bone from her skull where she suffered a serious burn injury. But the authorities will not let her go.
Helen Hawkings of Oxfam describes the need for public health to be maintained in Haiti.
As the US missionaries in Haiti are charged with kidnapping, Channel 4 News meets parents from an unaffected village there who say missionaries offered to take their children.
Channel 4 News reporter Jonathan Rugman reflects on his recent reports from Haiti.
Do we ignore the dangers inherent in hysterical fundamentalism in all faiths at our peril? Jon Snow asks why religious fundamentalism is developing a stranglehold on societies across the world.
Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. This is the first time I have tried to keep anything like a blog or diary, even though many of my friends have asked me to keep them up-to-date with my…
I came here to work on WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) emergency preparedness. The preparations have come in useful as the teams that we have been training are now helping us to evaluate the situation and responding by setting up water distribution points, organizing latrine construction etc.
Yolette Etienne (pictured below), from Port-au-Prince, has been Oxfam’s country director in Haiti for the past 10 years. She writes in a special series of posts for Channel 4 News. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. It’s been two weeks since the earthquake struck Haiti. Driving around Port-au-Prince, you…
Channel 4 News reporter Jonathan Rugman reflects on the scenes he encountered in Haiti.
The tragedy of the Haiti earthquake is one of the greatest challenges our globalised world has yet encountered, blogs Jon Snow.
Jonathan Rugman sends a video blog from the grounds of a football stadium in Port-au-Prince, now home to thousands of displaced Haitians.
Channel 4 News producer Hannah Storm outlines some of the memories that will stay with her after a week reporting the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.
Jon Snow reflects that while he is free to leave the devastation of Haiti, most of those in the country are not.
An extra 4,000 US sailors and marines are diverted from operations in the Gulf and Africa to help the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
The US Army is in charge of much of the aid effort in Haiti, but the haphazard management of aid flights into the country continues to hamper recovery. Jonathan Rugman reports.