Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  The Department of State is actively involved in addressing the potential for trafficking in persons, particularly children, in post-earthquake Haiti. The disaster in Haiti has displaced many people and separated numerous children from their families, posing great risk and higher vulnerability to human trafficking. The Department[Read More…]

HAITI—(ENEWSPF)—January 28, 2010. Brigg Reilley is an epidemiologist with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Haiti. He’s gathering information on the medical needs and issues MSF teams are seeing. The data helps create a bigger picture of what people’s healthcare needs are now and how they may evolve. This[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010 — In an operation that has involved more emergency response teams than any other single-country disaster in global Red Cross history, the American Red Cross has so far spent or committed more than $67 million to meet the most urgent needs of earthquake survivors in Haiti. The[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  A U.S. team is on-the-ground in Haiti evaluating the status of the country’s communications infrastructure and services following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th. The team was deployed in response to a request from Director General Montàigne Marcelin of Conseil National des Télécommunications[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—28 January 2010. The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the memorial service for staff of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), delivered by Edmond Mulet, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, in Port-au-Prince today, 28 January: Dear colleagues, friends, I know there is little[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to support U.S. government efforts—led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department—by deploying more than 1,000 personnel to provide operational and humanitarian assistance in Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake. On Jan. 25, DHS[Read More…]

Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  The devastation following the earthquake in Haiti on January 12 has moved us all, and our hearts go out to the people of this country who have been so profoundly affected. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has made an immediate contribution of $500,000 to support the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010.  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today delivered the following opening statement at the hearing on Haiti: Today, Haiti is reeling in the aftermath of what may well be the worst humanitarian catastrophe the Americas have ever seen.  Well over 100,000 dead, and more[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2010. On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, the President signed into law: S. 2949, the “Emergency Aid to American Survivors of the Haiti Earthquake Act of 2010,” which increases, from $1 million to $25 million, the cap for fiscal year 2010 on the amount that the Department of[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2010.  Because a viable postal sector is critical to any nation’s economic stability, Chief Postal Inspector William R. Gilligan, Jr. is sending U.S. Postal Inspectors to Haiti to conduct security assessments and help prepare for the restoration of mail service to the earthquake-ravaged country. “Members of the[Read More…]