1. Inter-American Commission Grants Protection to IDP Camp Facing Eviction
(Matching tags: human rights, forced evictions, ijdh, idps, amnesty, housing)

Earlier this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures in favor of the 567 families that have been under constant threat of eviction in the Grace Village ...

2. UN’s Immunity Claim Provokes Outrage
(Matching tags: minustah, ijdh, cholera)

The U.N.’s claim of immunity in response to the legal complaint filed against it on behalf of over 6,000 cholera victims has provoked outrage. Author Kathie Klarreich called it “unconscionable and immoral” ...

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

In Argentina, Guatemala, Peru and other countries in the region, former dictators and many of those responsible for egregious human rights violations under former authoritarian regimes have been, or are ...

4. Haiti, D.R. to Present $2 Billion Plan to Improve Health and Sanitation Infrastructure to Fight Cholera
(Matching tags: minustah, haitian government, aid, ijdh, cholera)

In the coming weeks, Haiti, together with international partners, will call on donors to fund a $2.2 billion 10-year plan to upgrade the water, sanitation and health infrastructure in Haiti and the Dominican ...

5. 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. ...

6. Assessing the Beginnings of Haiti’s Latest Unnatural Disaster
(Matching tags: partners in health, doctors without borders, agriculture, hurricane season, ijdh, idps, cholera, housing)

Relief organizations and the Haitian government are still attempting to assess the extent of the damage that Hurricane Sandy left in its wake. The Haitian government belatedly declared a month-long state ...

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

... Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) reports, Joseph, IJDH Managing Attorney and the director of its Haitian affiliate Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) has received as many as 3-4 death threats ...

8. In Wake of Scandals and Cholera, Anger Rises Against Minustah
(Matching tags: minustah, ijdh, cholera, accountability)

A piece yesterday on the Christian Science Monitor's website, written by investigative journalist Kathie Klarreich, discusses the increasing unpopularity of UN troops in Haiti in the wake of multiple sexual ...

9. Groups Peacefully Protest for MINUSTAH Accountability on International Women’s Day
(Matching tags: minustah, ijdh)

To mark International Women’s Day today, human rights groups and cholera victims are peacefully protesting “against the cholera and sexual violence that the UN and its peacekeeping mission, MINUSTAH, have ...

10. Lack of Adequate Housing Plan “Most Glaring Failure of the Past Year”
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, human rights, forced evictions, ijdh, camp conditions, idps, housing)

... population will be in housing by March 2012. Also last week, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and the University of San Francisco School of Law released a report criticizing ...