Reply #1: Haiti camps mired in 'growing squalor and violence'

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Source: BBC

Haitians are enduring increasingly squalid and violent conditions in the tent cities that sprang up after January's quake, a rights group says.

Refugees International says gangs are running many camps, with women being forced to exchange sex for food.

The former US president (Clinton) spoke of his frustration about the slow arrival of promised funding. The US, which pledged $1.15bn at a donors' conference in March out of a total of $5.3bn, has yet to deliver any of its promised funding. "In the next day or so, it will become obvious that the United States is making a huge down payment on that," Mr Clinton said, without elaborating.

The former president said that under a "rather bizarre system of rules in the United States Senate", the money was being held up. "Since I believe that we are still essentially a sane as well as a humane country, I believe the money will be released, and when that happens that will also give a lot of others donors encouragement to raise their money," he said.

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