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Weekly Report - 15 January 2015 (WR-15-02)
HAITI: Five years on Haiti remains on shaky ground
A “tragic lack of progress” is how the international human rights NGO, Amnesty International (AI), described the situation in Haiti vis-à-vis reconstruction efforts on the five-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that left some 230,000 people dead, 300,000 injured and 1.5m homeless. The renewed scrutiny of progress (or lack thereof) regarding these efforts comes as the political situation in Haiti appears more fragile than ever after President Michel Martelly failed to secure a political deal preventing the legislature becoming inoperative after legislators’ terms expired on 12 January.
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