Half-Hour for Haiti Action Alert: Sum­mer Read­ing
August 12, 2010
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Updates

IJDH Attor­ney Nicole Phillips spoke at a brief­ing on Haiti by key stake­hold­ers hosted by Rep. Max­ine Waters in Los Ange­les on August 7.

Thank you to every­one who par­tic­i­pated in our last action call­ing for an end to forced evic­tions of the inter­nally dis­placed, we received over 1,000 sig­na­tures and it has pro­vided a plat­form for con­tin­ued advocacy.

The last two months have been busy for IJDH. Our head­quar­ters offi­cially moved to Boston, we launched two new projects address­ing gender-based vio­lence and vio­la­tions of the right to hous­ing, and con­ducted a follow-up sur­vey of camp con­di­tions with a del­e­ga­tion of stu­dents from the Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco. We are par­tic­u­larly excited about our newly formed part­ner­ship with the Goldin Insti­tute on the Rape Account­abil­ity and Pre­ven­tion Project, which has allowed us to staff the Project with a full-time paralegal/ grass­roots coordinator.

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Sum­mer Read­ing Sug­ges­tions

The BAI’s Mario Joseph and IJDH Attor­ney Blaine Bookey hosted a press con­fer­ence on sex­ual vio­lence in the camps and the response of the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment and inter­na­tional community.

In honor of sum­mer, this alert’s activ­ity is only read­ing. It isn’t light, but some of the best short pieces about Haiti we have seen:

• Report on rapes in the dis­place­ment camps: Our Bod­ies Are Still Trem­bling: Hait­ian Women’s Fight Against Rape, by IJDH and dis­tin­guished collaborators;
• Con­gres­sional tes­ti­mony of found­ing IJDH Board mem­ber Dr. Paul Farmer and IJDH Board Chair Ira Kurzban for a July 27 hear­ing held by the Con­gres­sional Black Caucus
• Issue briefs pre­pared by IJDH and other mem­bers of the Haiti Advo­cacy Work­ing Group for the July 27 CBC hear­ing. The briefs are all short (2 pages or less) and con­cise, and together pro­vide an excel­lent sum­mary of the com­pli­cated sit­u­a­tion on the ground in Haiti.

As always, we wel­come your feed­back and input. Thank you in advance for get­ting informed, a first and nec­es­sary step for the engage­ment that Haitians need from us to win respect for their human rights.

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