Month: April 2018

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Philip Wearne: a Tribute

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The Haiti Advocacy Working Group (HAWG) mourns the loss of Phillip Wearne, who suddenly and unexpectedly passed last month.

Phillip’s professional skills combined journalism, research, documentary making.  A longtime member of the UK based Haiti Support Group, he had a lead role in producing their bulletin, Haiti Briefing.   Not long after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Phillip brought his experience to the HAWG.  Read More

Mining

Op-Ed: Metal Mining Would Be Disastrous for Haiti

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*As printed in the NYTimes – Full Op-ed available here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/metal-mining-haiti.html

By Ellie Happel

After the 2010 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and displaced more than a million, the government of Haiti identified mining for gold and other metals as necessary to strengthen the economy.

To that end, the government and the World Bank worked to revise the country’s mining law to attract foreign investment. Read More