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Touched by the destruction of the Haiti earthquake, Seattle PrideFest organizer Egan Orion joined Habitat for Humanity to help build new homes for people devastated by disasters.

KOURAJ opened in the Haitian capital late last year with the help of recent Tufts University graduate Nick Stratton.

Foreign ministers and defense chiefs from the Latin American countries that have more than 12,000 peacekeepers in Haiti called a meeting to consider how the alleged sex abuse of a Haitian teenager by Uruguayan sailors might affect the U.N. mission.

The United Nations, Haiti and Uruguay are investigating allegations that U.N. peacekeepers from Uruguay sexually abused an 18-year-old Haitian man, the United Nations said Tuesday.

As the world marks the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti, the San Francisco-based Rainbow World Fund remains on the ground in the impoverished Caribbean country.

At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton officially inaugurated the commission overseeing Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction on Thursday, pledging to accelerate and organize a process that has raised less than 1 percent of the money promised by international donors.

A missionary from Ontario has been sentenced for sexually abusing Haitian boys.

More than 50 New York-based activists are expected to join their Haitian counterparts in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on Manhattan’s East Side on Wednesday, March 31, to protest what they maintain is a lack of a coordinated relief effort for people with HIV/AIDS in the earthquake ravaged country.

Haiti’s deadly January earthquake could have a positive side: the country may emerge as an attractive tourist destination. Read more...