SANTIAGO, Chile – The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, says the LAC needs to comprehensively address at least five factors underlying social inequality in the region.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) says while it appreciates Haiti’s efforts to advance a political transition and encourages the prioritization of the principles of transparency and inclusive participation, at the same time, it urges the international community to continue providing support.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The U.S Government’s Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins, wrapped up her two day visit to Guyana on Friday , and stated that the Biden administration will continue to work with Guyana to tackle the illegal import and sale of arms and other security challenges.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has launched an appeal to help Haiti deal with the upcoming weather situation over the next few months, as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country struggles to deal with the gang violence that has pushed thousands of children and their families into poverty.
GENEVA – United Nations independent human rights experts say Haiti faces record displacement amid escalating gang violence and that violence and political instability have forced a record 578,074 people from their homes this yea.
UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Thursday welcomed the installation of the new government in Haiti, noting most importantly that it includes women in key Cabinet positions.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a regional agricultural project that is aimed at promoting and encouraging the use of climate-smart technologies in viable agricultural value chains
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados' government says it is working swiftly to put steps in place to recover any available documents from the Tuesday’s devastating fire that swept through a block of the colonial-era building housing the country’s archives.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the youth in Haiti remain optimistic amid worsening instability and that the crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has left children among the most vulnerable to extreme violence, malnutrition, poverty, and collapsing social systems.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – United Nations humanitarians say they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after gang violence prevented access for more than two months.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Haiti, where efforts are continuing to ensure peace and security amid ongoing criminal gang violence, has for the first time has been labelled as the least peaceful country in Central America and the Caribbean.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Tuesday described the ongoing situation in Haiti as “volatile” resulting in thousands of people being displaced across the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew says small island developing states (SIDS) need to build resilience that will protect them from the external shocks which threaten to push SIDS to the precipice of collapse.
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