The Explainer: The ‘Curse of Ham’ – how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
PAUL HAM, a lecturer in narrative history, looks at how “a grotesque misuse of the very words of the Bible” has been used to support the idea of slavery…
Haitian gangs’ growing funds, arsenals challenge planned intervention – report
Reuters Haitian gangs are increasingly economically autonomous, a Geneva-based criminal research group warned, using funds coerced from private businesses, local residents and families of kidnapping victims to pay for guns and soldiers. “Gangs have undergone a radical evolution, going from rather unstructured actors dependent on resources provided by public or private patronage to violent entrepreneurs,” […]
HAITI: IN CANAAN, A CITY-WITHOUT-A-GOVERNMENT, RESIDENTS WANT LAND TITLES, TAXATION
JACOB KUSHNER reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on the fight for land rights in Canaan, a city founded in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake…