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This week in history: Dancer Katherine Dunham heads to Haiti

While studying at the University of Chicago in 1935, Dunham, born this week on June 22, 1909, won a fellowship to research native dances in Haiti and the West Indies.

Chicago Sun-Times

A federal law requires translated voting ballots, but not in Arabic or Haitian Creole

The Voting Rights Act requires some states and local areas to offer election materials in more than just English. But the support for voters is limited to Spanish, Asian and Native American languages.

WEKU

Official: 8 more die as Haiti prisons lack food, water

An official says at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago

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Sex for a job: the scandal of Haiti’s exploited US garment workers

Women paid a pittance for making clothes for top US brands are often forced to have sex by bosses to keep their jobs, say unions

The Guardian - UK

For Haitian migrants, waiting in Tijuana brings fear, discrimination, even death

TIJUANA, Mexico — In the last phone conversation that Pethou Archange had with her younger brother, he told her that he had a surprise for her birthday.

Tribune News Service

Welsh war surgeon helping to save lives on the frontline in war-torn Ukraine

Dr David Nott has worked in some of the dangerous conflict zones in the world including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Chad, Iraq, Libya, Haiti, Gaza and Syria

Wales Online

Experts fear for safety of missing Special Olympics Haiti delegation members

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s been over a week since six delegates of the unified Haitian Special Olympics soccer team were reported missing in Osceola County and experts say cause for concern about their safety will only grow the longer the investigation drags on.

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UN: Haiti police need immediate help amid surge in violence

A U.N. special envoy is warning that Haiti’s police force needs immediate help to fight crime and violence, noting that gangs have grown so powerful they recently seized control of a local courthouse

The Independent UK

Armed bandits now control Haiti’s largest courthouse after violent takeover

SWAT and other specialized units of the Haiti National Police were moving in and out of Port-au-Prince’s main courthouse as they tried to figure out how to carry an oversized safe with sensitive documents from some of the country’s most high-profile criminal cases out of the former U.S. government building…

Miami Herald

A toddler on a Cuban migrant boat has been released from a Keys hospital. What’s next?

MIAMI — A toddler from Cuba who was aboard a migrant boat that the U.S. Coast Guard stopped off the Florida Keys has been released from the hospital after treatment for dehydration, according to the Border Patrol — and the boy and his family can stay in the country for…

Miami Herald

Haiti mourns 11 women from fatal voyage near Puerto Rico

Eleven Haitian women have been buried in Puerto Rico a month after the overloaded boat they were in capsized near the U.S. territory

The Independent UK

Border officers circulate coin memorializing treatment of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas

A controversial moment captured last fall on the U.S. southern border of an officer on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, has been memorialized on “a challenge coin” that is circulating among border patrol officers.

Miami Herald

Charter business thrives as US-expelled Haitians flee Haiti

Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America

The Independent UK

Charter business thrives as US-expelled Haitians flee Haiti

Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America, according to flight tracking information and independent verification by The Associated Press in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley

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America's Harsh Immigration Restrictions Mean Haitians Drown Trying To Get Here

Their deaths are the tragic, predictable consequence of shutting down safer migration paths.

Orlando Sentinel

Another missing person case linked to Haitian Special Olympics delegation

ORLANDO, Fla. — Another person with ties to the Haitian delegation to the Special Olympics has been reported missing, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, bringing the number of disappearances to seven.

Miami Herald

US focuses on UN presence in Haiti as it seeks to help troubled country

LOS ANGELES — As Haiti grapples with an unprecedented wave of kidnappings and killings by armed gangs, a top State Department diplomat for Latin America and the Caribbean said Friday the U.S. is actively engaged in discussions about Haiti’s mounting security challenges and what the presence of a United Nations…

Miami Herald

The Biden administration to step up family reunification for Cubans and Haitians

MIAMI — Hoping to cut down on the unprecedented number of Haitians and Cubans trying to reach the United States by boat and at its southern land border, the Biden administration announced Friday that it will be making it easier for individuals from those countries to reunite with families in…

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5 Haiti soccer players and their coach vanished from Special Olympics in Florida

MIAMI — They turned in their room keys and left behind their suitcases and other personal belongings. Why five Haitian soccer players and their coach decided to vanish while participating in the 2022 Special Olympics Games in Orlando remains a puzzling mystery.

The Conversation

How Haitian migrants are treated shows the ties between racism and refugee policy

The first protected category of the United Nations refugee convention is race. The 1951 convention defines a refugee as a person who is outside their country of residence or nationality “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or…

Daily Mirror

Six members of Special Olympics team mysteriously vanish after leaving bags at hotel

All the missing Haiti delegates handed their room keys in at reception before disappearing, abandoning their personal belongings and bags. One of the six is believed to have an intellectual disability

The Independent UK

Six members of Special Olympics team go missing in Florida, police say

Authorities say all six members left behind their belongings before going missing

Miami Herald

‘Invisible shipwrecks:’ How a boat with US-bound Haitian migrants disappeared at sea

MIAMI — They were told to dress totally in black and to leave cellphones and all identifying documents, including passports, behind.

Los Angeles Times

Summit of the Americas kicks off without Cuba, Maduro or Mexico’s López Obrador

After much drama over what nations would be in attendance, most leaders in the Western Hemisphere are gathering this week in Los Angeles during the ninth Summit of the Americas, a high-profile meeting that is expected to deliver an accord on managing unprecedented levels of migrants throughout the region.

The Guardian - UK

‘Crazy journey’: how Wales went from worse than Haiti to World Cup heroes

Bale, Ramsey and Hennessey were in the side that sunk to 117th in the world at the stadium where joy abounded on Sunday

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