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Author: Kent Rosenthal

  • INTERNATIONAL

    Empathy for the Haiti I know

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 18 January 2010
    9 Comments

    In 2006 while living in Haiti I wrote about the plight of human trafficking victims. But the same issue of justice doesn't enter the picture when talking about an earthquake. What light could I shed on the enormity of suffering and destruction with my slight contribution?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Border bandits

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 18 May 2007

    Migration hurdles #2

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Kent Rosenthal SJ

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 17 May 2007

    Kent Rosenthal returned from an assignment in Haiti with the Jesuit Refugee Service, to complete a six-month placement with Jesuit Communications in Melbourne, in 2006.  

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Putting soul into climate change debate

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 27 February 2007
    1 Comment

    When multinationals and politicians seem to be looking the other way in the face of an impending climate change crisis, it’s good to know there are people out there pushing for reform and stirring debate at the highest levels. 

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Undeclared war on Haiti's poor

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 10 July 2006
    5 Comments

    Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In adversity, strength

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 26 June 2006

    The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Power of persuasion

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 22 May 2006

    Elections in El Salvador

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  • AUSTRALIA

    One island, two nations

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 25 April 2006

    The common African past of both the Dominican Republic and Haiti continues to be a wound

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Tension and grief in the Caribbean

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 20 April 2006

    Deep anguish and frustration, not a desire for violence, is the plight of Haiti’s impoverished people.  

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