In Kafou, residents of Camp Gaston Margon are living in fear after 150 families were evicted and armed men threatened to come back and kill the children of families that didn't leave the private property. Take action with Amnesty International on our News page.

On March 28, 2013 members of twenty-five camps for internally displaced people and FRAKKA, the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing, marched in Port-au-Prince to ask for an end to illegal forced evictions and for housing solutions.

On April 4th, victims of cholera protested at Haiti's Ministry of Justice calling on the United Nations to give them justice and compensation for the epidemic started by UN peacekeepers.

Twenty-five camps and the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing (FRAKKA)announced that they will mobilize on March 28, marching to demand that the Government of Haiti take responsibility for internally displaced people by putting an immediate stop to illegal and often violent evictions while finally creating a housing program that meets the needs of these families and removes then from the highly dangerous camps where they have struggled to survive for more than three years.

Lavalas along with members of several political groups and social movements demonstrated on September 30, 2012 to commemorate twenty-one years since the brutal coup d'etat against President Aristide. The large protest began at 10am and included many criticisms of President Martelly and nepotism within his family. Many more people joined the demonstration while protestors marched through the city. Several political leaders in opposition to the government denounced corruption and inefficient power and politics of the Martelly government 16 months into his term. The demo ended at the palace without incident.

The first factory at the new Caracol industrial park in northern Haiti, Sae-A, has already begun operations and is paying new workers 150 gourdes, or $3.75 US (less than $.50 an hour) for nine hours of work. For months now, several hundered people have been working in the industrial park before the official launch that is scheduled for October. The employees, the majority of whom are young women, come from all over the region to work. Almost four years after the Haitian government set the minimum wage at 200 gourdes a day ($5 US), this regulation has never been applied because the businesses are benefiting from the very high level of unemployment in the country, and the authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the situation.

Haitian factory workers gathered on May 1st to commemorate May Day by demonstrating in front of the gates to the SONAPI industrial park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

On Monday, April 23, Port-au-Prince was paralyzed. A group of Haitian National Police held a strike to protest the death of a police man after he allegedly argued with a Parliamentarian (Deputy)'s security. Many neighborhoods woke to find the streets tense, including Kafou Marassa and Kafou Ayopò in Delmas 17 where tires were burning and rocks were thrown.

These photos illustrate the life for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Haitians, families who were left homeless after the earthquake. Since the start of March, rain has been falling everyday, filling the camps with mud and puddles. Imagine starting each day exhausted and wet, and knowing that the risk of cholera and malaria grows with each rain. The United Nations and NGOs still have funds in hand to help the victims of the earthquake yet they are asking for more money in order to deliver the lifesaving aid that people need today. Who is making the decisions about how existing funds are spent? The rainy season brings new urgency to the living conditions of Haiti's internally displaced people (IDPs) and saving lives must be the number one priority of humanitarian organizations - urgent action must be placed before keeping money in the bank to sustain the agencies and NGOs themselves.

As the third rainy season since the January 2010 earthquake begins, the Bri Kouri Nouvèl Gaye team takes a look at conditions for people in Haiti's IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Many women's organization and community-based groups gathered in Port-au-Prince on March 8, 2012 to mark International Women's Day. Themes included: women and men supporting each other for change and equality, justice and an end to impunity in the case of Jean-Claude Duvalier, justice and reparations to the victims of cholera brought to the country by UN soldiers, and more. See press release on our news page.

This set of photos captures the state of life for over half a million internally displaced Haitians two years after the earthquake. Made homeless when their homes, rooms or apartments they rented collapsed on January 12, 2010, they are still living under tarps and tents without access to basic sanitation, water or other services two years later.