Extending the MINUSTAH mandate within Haiti’s recent history

With its resolution 1892 of 13 October 2009, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) with another year. As a peacekeeping mission Haiti appears to be different from most of the peacekeeping missions deployed in UN history. At least nowadays.

President Préval

Last week all heads of state gathered in New York to bring their message to the yearly session of the UN General Assembly. Obviously, the president of Haiti, René Préval, did not stand much of a chance to make his way into the international media headlines with what he had to say,

Protests ahead

Student protests enter their fourth week in Port-au-Prince. What started as a movement of protest against the changes in their curriculum has now been transformed into a crusade for a higher minimum wage. Meanwhile, more demands and social groups join the scene.