deliv­er­ing court-awarded dam­ages to 94 vic­tims of the Raboteau mas­sacre, and receiving a bind­ing order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Update: The good news first: the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment has appointed an Inves­ti­gat­ing Judge (Jug) to inves­ti­gate the dis­ap­pear­ance of Lovin­sky Pierre-AntoineBureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux

Some progress on Debt Relief for Haiti: the Inter-American Devel­op­ment Bank will be pay­ing 2/3 of the debt ser­vice owed to the Bank by Haiti in 2009, a total of about $14 mil­lion. This can make a great dif­fer­ence for Haiti, and is good rea­son to push the World Bank to make a sim­i­lar arrangement.

The bad news: the U.S. Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment unit has resumed depor­ta­tions to Haitiin a let­ter to immi­gra­tion offi­cials. We hope to have an action alert on this issue soon.

is to con­sider join­ing in the fight for jus­tice in Haiti by finan­cially sup­port­ing IJDH and BAI:

INVEST IN HOPE AND JUSTICE FOR HAITI

With your help, we are prov­ing that jus­tice works for Haiti. Just con­sider what we have accom­plished together this year:

• After a 14 year-long bat­tle, vic­tims of the 1994 Raboteau mas­sacre

• Hait­ian death squad leader Emmanuel Con­stant was con­victed of bank fraud in New York. Despite efforts of the U.S. gov­ern­ment to arrange a light sen­tence, he was sen­tenced to at least 12 years in prison, in part because of his crimes in Haiti;

Yvon Nep­tune v. Haiti,

The Jubilee Act for Debt Can­cel­la­tion

• In June, the final charges against Fr. Ger­ard Jean-Juste were dis­missed by the appeals court. Freed of his legal restric­tions, Fr. Gerry has expanded his food pro­gram in Haiti, which today serves over 7,500 meals per week.
  

Each of these vic­to­ries resulted from strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tions with oth­ers. As Haitians say, men anpil, chay pa lou

Your activism and con­tri­bu­tions have also helped us secure these vic­to­ries. We work hard to honor the faith your con­tri­bu­tion rep­re­sents by using your invest­ment effi­ciently and effec­tively. The com­bined annual bud­get for BAI and IJDH is only $270,000. This is extra­or­di­nar­ily low for the amount of work we do. Over 75% of this bud­get comes directly from pri­vate indi­vid­ual donors and activists like you. We do not receive money from any gov­ern­ment or polit­i­cal party.

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IJDH is a rec­og­nized char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion under IRS Code Sec. 501©3. All con­tri­bu­tions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Half-Hour For Haiti pro­gram, the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH) or human rights in Haiti, see our web­site, www.HaitiJustice.org. To receive Half-Hour for Haiti Action Alerts (about 2 per month), send an email to HalfHour4Haiti@ijdh.org.