Laura Trevelyan and the gathering momentum for reparations

by Rashmee

Posted on March 17, 2023


News that longtime BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has presented her last @BBCWorld News America show …

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Barbados may give energy to reparations case, which is as much about politics as money

by Rashmee

Posted on March 15, 2023


I was reminded of a Financial Times piece on reparations (paywall) when I heard that …

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America’s record on Haiti and Biden’s right to be at the Queen’s funeral – II

by Rashmee

Posted on September 18, 2022


US president Joe Biden is key to our discussion of the rightness or wrongness of …

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America’s record on Haiti: Should Biden be on that good-to-go list for Queen’s funeral?

by Rashmee

Posted on September 17, 2022


Shouldn’t Joe Biden be on the lengthening list of leaders that human rights champions want …

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Haiti chérie: not unlucky but unprepared

by Rashmee

Posted on September 1, 2021 / open Democracy


Poor infrastructure and governance add to the woes of a country laid low by a …

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There is just enough to yoke Afghanistan and Haiti together

by Rashmee

Posted on August 15, 2021


It is hard to think the chaos and pain engulfing two countries where I have …

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What Haiti could learn from the success story of Bangladesh

by Rashmee

Posted on July 21, 2021 / The National


The aftermath of the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise has made apparent the country’s …

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Inside the most cursed country in the world: Haiti

by Rashmee

Posted on July 18, 2021 / The New European


The murder of its president in his own home is yet another chapter in Haiti’s …

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Haiti doesn’t need the world to be hands-off, but with hands stretched out to save it from falling

by Rashmee

Posted on July 16, 2021


/ LANGUAGE In the aftermath of the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise, the usual …

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What’s happening in Haiti?

by Rashmee

Posted on July 13, 2021 / open Democracy


The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK