1. Both Duvalier and the UN Continue to Try to Dodge Responsibility
(Matching tags: human rights, justice system, cholera, duvalier)

There were two significant and possibly historic legal developments in Haiti today. After Jean-Claude Duvalier refused yet again to appear in court today, Judge Jean Joseph Lebrun issued an order for ...

2. Duvalier Hearing this Week Could be Historic, Despite U.S. Obstruction
(Matching tags: human rights, amnesty international, justice system, ijdh, duvalier)

... in the process of being tried for their crimes.  In Haiti, for the first time, there appears to be genuine hope that Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will face human rights charges in court.  ...

3. Cholera as a Human Rights Issue
(Matching tags: haitian national police, minustah, prisons, ijdh, idps, cholera, duvalier)

A new human rights report reaffirms the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti’s (MINUSTAH) responsibility for causing the cholera epidemic that has now killed over 7,600 and infected over 600,000. ...

4. Public Support Grows for Threatened Human Rights Attorney Mario Joseph
(Matching tags: human rights, amnesty international, justice system, ijdh, duvalier)

Haiti’s leading human rights attorney Mario Joseph has been the subject of death threats and police surveillance and harassment in the past several months, along with other lawyers. As the Institute for ...

5. Did the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Put Public Education on the Shelf?
(Matching tags: reconstruction, duvalier, ihrc, education)

A new report from Haiti Grassroots Watch examines the State University of Haiti (UEH), more than a year after the university first came to the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) with a proposal for ...

6. Former Dictator Lives the Good Life, as Haitian Government has “Deliberately Stalled” Investigation
(Matching tags: bill clinton, human rights, amnesty international, justice system, duvalier)

In a front page Washington Post article, William Booth reports on the luxurious lifestyle that former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been living since his return to Haiti last year. Although ...

7. Laura Flynn: "In Haiti, Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for Aristide"
(Matching tags: aristide, duvalier)

Today in the Huffington Post, Laura Flynn, writer, activist, and board member of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy, writes movingly about the "constant terror" of life under Jean-Claude Duvalier and ...