Amy Bracken

Conflict

Here are the real lessons from flawed responses to Haiti's disasters

The World

January 12, 2017

The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.

Conflict

This interpreter is helping get justice for Indigenous women raped and tortured in Guatemala’s civil war

The World

December 12, 2016

​December 2016 marks two decades since the signing of the Guatemalan peace accords. It officially ended a 36-year domestic armed conflict in which an estimated 200,000 people were killed and many more tortured and raped. Bringing war crimes perpetrators to justice has been slow, with convictions appealed and cases stalled. But many see victory in the trials themselves, and in their growing involvement of women.

Development

With no public officials in sight, a local Haitian leader takes matters into her own hands

October 24, 2016

She's sheltering hundreds of neighbors in her house, running a school and orphanage, and trying to get clean water to those in need.

Development

Did religion save this Guatemalan town?

The World

August 26, 2016

Guatemala is reported to be the most evangelical country in the Americas. And, according to the Pew Research Center, it has the highest rate of believers that faith reaps success. Almolonga, a small mountain town, is held up as proof.