Deepa Panchang

“Where you stand,” goes an old Haitian proverb, “depends on where you sit.” This article, the second in a series, will examine aid workers’ stereotypes and prejudices about residents of displacement camps in post-earthquake Haiti, stemming from acute disconnect between NGOs and the people they ar

‘Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a: We should be the only owners of this land.’ This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.