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In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

He was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti in 2009.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.

Zonker, still not ready for the “ real world ”, was living with Mike and JJ until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke ’ s “ Baby Doc College ” in Haiti.

Dahomey resembled Haiti in many ways, both geographically and culturally, and it was safer to film there than in Haiti.

As was observed after other disasters involving destruction and loss of life and their media depictions, such as those of the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks or Hurricane Katrina — and has been recently observed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it is also important not to pathologize the reactions to loss and displacement or disruption of governmental administration and services, but rather to validate these reactions, to support constructive problem-solving and reflection as to how one might improve the conditions of those affected.

He was appointed minister-resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti ( 1889 – 1891 ).

Fedon was clearly influenced by the ideas emerging from the French Revolution especially the Convention's abolition of slavery in 1794-he stated that he intended to make Grenada a " Black Republic just like Haiti ".

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.

All citizens of Haiti, regardless of skin color, to be known as " Black " ( this was an attempt to eliminate the multi-tiered racial hierarchy that had developed in Haiti, with full or near full-blooded Europeans at the top, various levels of light to brown skin in the middle, and dark skinned " Kongo " from Africa at the bottom ).

From the government's perspective, the intention of the immigration was to help establish commercial and diplomatic relationships with the US, and to increase the number of skilled and agricultural workers in Haiti.

His iron rule succeeded in uniting Haiti for a time, but it came to an abrupt end in 1859 when he was deposed by General Fabre Geffrard, styled the Duke of Tabara.

A more workable constitution was introduced under Michel Domingue in 1874, leading to a long period of democratic peace and development for Haiti.

The United States was particularly apprehensive about the role of the German community in Haiti ( approximately 200 in 1910 ), who wielded a disproportionate amount of economic power.

In 1915 the United States, responding to complaints to President Woodrow Wilson from American banks to which Haiti was deeply in debt, occupied the country.

Sisal was introduced to Haiti, and sugar and cotton became significant exports.

The Garde was a new kind of military institution in Haiti.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

On January 1, 1804 Dessalines then declared independence, reclaiming the indigenous Taíno name of Haiti (" Land of Mountains ") for the new nation.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

After the French removed the surviving 7, 000 troops in late 1803, the leaders of the revolution declared the new nation of independent Haiti in early 1804.

Later that year, the 7, 000 surviving French troops were withdrawn from the island, and in 1804 Haiti declared its independence as the second republic in the western hemisphere.

In 1804 Haiti declared independence but, fearing a slave revolt at home, Jefferson and the US Congress refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed a trade embargo against it.

After sending more than 20, 000 troops to try to regain the colony in 1802, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops in late 1803, shortly before Haiti declared independence.

On 7 November 2010, in an exclusive interview ( the last given before his return to Haiti ) with independent reporter Nicolas Rossier in Eurasia Review and the Huffington Post, Aristide declared that the 2010 elections were not inclusive of his party Fanmi Lavalas and therefore not fair and free.

On 1 January 1804, from the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence and renamed it " Haiti " after the indigenous Taíno name.

Dessalines declared Haiti an all-black nation and forbade whites from owning property or land there.

After the last French troops withdrew in late 1803, in 1804 the territory declared independence as the Republic of Haiti.

Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's City of Independence because it was there that Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti, the former Saint-Domingue, independent from France on January 1, 1804 by reading the Act of Independence, drafted by Boisrond Tonnerre, on the Place d ' Armes of the town.

In 1804, Haiti declared itself a free republic but civil war broke out in the north under the leadership of Henri Christophe.

Christophe declared the northern dominion a kingdom in 1811 and crowned himself King Henry I of Haiti.

In response, Émile Jonassaint, declared a state of siege and accused the world of having " declared war on poor Haiti, which has harmed nobody.

On January 1, 1804, from the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence, renaming it " Haiti " after the indigenous Arawak name.

On 1 January 1804, Dessalines, the new leader under the dictatorial 1801 constitution, declared Haiti a free republic in the name of the Haitian people, which was followed by the massacre of the remaining whites.

Mella and his followers marched up to Santo Domingo, captured the eastern part of the island, and formally declared its independence from Haiti and the proclamation of the Dominican Republic in February 1844.

This constitution provided for freedom of religion, banned most whites from citizenship or owning land in Haiti, and declared all citizens " black " in an effort to end racism based on lightness of skin.

Starting November 15, 1821 several frontier towns raised the Haitian flag as a show of independence, whereas other forces which opposed unification with Haiti formally declared independence from Spain on November 30, 1821.

Haiti again became an empire from 1849 to 1859 under Faustin Soulouque.

As Napoleon had failed to re-enslave Haiti, he abandoned his plans to rebuild France's New World empire.

Having lost the revenue potential of Haiti while escalating his wars against the rest of Europe, Napoleon gave up on an empire in North America and used the purchase money to help finance France's war campaign on its home front.

Because Napoleon was unable to regain control over Haiti, he gave up hope of rebuilding a French New World empire.