In response to the tragic consequences of the recent earthquake in Haiti, questions have arisen regarding how to handle leave requests from employees who may be involved in emergency response efforts.

A patient receives medical treatment at a field hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Nephrologists and other renal care professionals faced formidible obstacles in treating individuals with ...

Nonprofit relief and development groups told the federal government Thursday they feared that the amount of money it was spending on disaster assistance in Haiti could harm programs for the needy in ...

While the causes of individual disasters are natural, more than anything what makes Haiti a constant site of catastrophe is its heart-tugging social ills, disaster experts say. It starts with poverty, ...

In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the impoverished capital of Haiti, local residents are waiting for news and to supply aid. Before the grade 7.0-magnitude earthquake wrought devastation ...

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Ina Fried tells us about the tech companies pitching in: Google has pledged $1 million. … Microsoft has said it will give up to $1.25 million in cash and in-kind donations, as well as match employee ...

Donors who made text-message gifts to aid survivors of the devastating earthquake in Haiti two years ago have continued to turn to their cellphones to give after other disasters, according to a new ...

Those of us who cover the developing world deal increasingly today with a new kind of inflation: disaster inflation. I first really noticed it in 1998, while reporting Hurricane Mitch. The storm ...

* Haiti, Mozambique suffer most from 1980-2010 * Some rich nations such as Italy, U.S. at risk By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, July 8 (Reuters) - Haiti and Mozambique are the nations ...

Experts estimate death toll from 7.0 earthquake could be in in the thousands. Jan 13, 2009— -- Haiti has barely begun to assess the devastation caused by the biggest earthquake to rock the area ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Haiti and Mozambique are the nations most at risk economically from natural disasters, according to a ranking on Thursday that says some rich countries such as Italy and the United ...