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IJDH-BAI Press Release:
Over 5,000 Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims Sue UN, Seek­ing Justice

 

Attor­neys file peti­tion request­ing repa­ra­tions for neg­li­gent intro­duc­tion of cholera

Fol­low IJDH on Twit­ter: @IJDH,@HaitiJustice (Brian Con­can­non, IJDH Direc­tor), @BeaLindstrom (Beat­rice Lind­strom, IJDH-BAI Legal Fellow)

 

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Click Here to watch the inter­view with Brian Con­can­non on Democ­racy Now!

The announce­ment was made pub­lic at a press con­fer­ence at 10 a.m. ET in both New York and Port-au-Prince.  Fol­low IJDH on Face­book (http://www.facebook.com/#!/IJDH1) and Twit­ter (@ijdh) through­out the day.

Tune into Democ­racy Now! to see/hear an inter­view with IJDH Direc­tor Brian Con­can­non and IJDH Board Mem­ber Ira Kurzban, where they announced devel­op­ments in the account­abil­ity of the UN and the UN Sta­bi­liza­tion Mis­sion in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for Haiti’s cholera outbreak.

News Arti­cles

News Cov­er­age on IJDH-BAI Lawsuit:

• Asso­ci­ated Press Articles:
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (The Boston Globe) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (Asso­ci­ated Press) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • French — Choléra en Haïti: Une Organ­i­sa­tion Réclame aux Nations Unies le Verse­ment d’Indemnités (Le Nou­vel Obser­va­teur) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (CBS News) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (MSNBC) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Rights Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break, Cit­ing Neg­li­gence (The Guardian) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Cholera Vic­tims Demand Major UN Com­pen­sa­tion (Agence France Presse) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (Wash­ing­ton Times) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Rights Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break, Cit­ing Neg­li­gence (Wash­ing­ton Post) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Group Demands UN Pay for Cholera Out­break (The Olympian) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  
  
• Non-Associated Press Articles: 
  • Haiti’s Cholera Row with UN Rum­bles On (BBC) — Decem­ber 14, 2011
  • Cholera Fall­out: Can Haitians Sue the U.N. for the Epi­demic? (Times) — Decem­ber 13, 2011
  • Haitians protest for UN cholera com­pen­sa­tion (BBC News) — Decem­ber 12, 2011
  • HATIAN CHOLERA VICTIMS TO U.N.: PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH (IndyStar.com) — Decem­ber 12, 2011
  • MINUSTAH by the Num­bers (Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research) — Decem­ber 8, 2011
  • NYU Law Stu­dents Play Key Role in Fil­ing Claims Against the UN on Behalf of Cholera Vic­tims in Haiti (NYU Law) — Novem­ber 30, 2011
  • Stand­ing Against Mil­i­tarism and Vio­lence: From Haiti to Fort Ben­ning (CommonDreams.org) — Novem­ber 18, 2011
  • French — La Minus­tah Est Pour­suivie (Le Matin) — Novem­ber 17, 2011
  • The UN in Haiti: Damned if You Do (The Econ­o­mist) — Novem­ber 10, 2011
  • Cholera Vic­tims in Haiti are Suing the United Nations (Canada Haiti Action Net­work) — Novem­ber 10, 2011
  • Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims Seek Repa­ra­tions from U.N. (Inter Press Ser­vice) — Novem­ber 10, 2011
  • UN Hit with Cash Demand Over Haiti Cholera Out­break (Reuters) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • UN Peace­keep­ers Intro­duced Cholera to Haiti:Report (China Daily) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • Cholera Suf­fer­ers Launch Legal Action to Avail Com­pen­sa­tion (French Tri­bune) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • French — Haïti : Les vic­times du Choléra eEx­i­gent d’être Dédom­magées par l’ONU (EuroNews) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • Haiti Cholera Vic­tims Demand UN Com­pen­sa­tion (BBC) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • As Epi­demic Rages: Haitians File Suit Against UN for Intro­duc­ing Cholera into Haiti (Haiti Lib­erte) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • Haiti Wants UN Pay­out on Cholera (The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
  • French — Des Vic­times du Choléra en Haïti Deman­dent des Com­pen­sa­tions à l’ONU (Romandie News) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Report: UN Peace­keep­ers Caused Cholera Epi­demic in Haiti (ABC News) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Haiti Cholera Vic­tims Demand U.N. Com­pen­sa­tion (CNN) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Group Blames Haiti Cholera on U.N. Troops (United Press Inter­na­tional) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Span­ish — Una ONG Dide a la ONU Resolver la Epi­demia de Cólera en Haití o Lle­vará su Queja a los Tri­bunales (Euro­pean Pressphoto Agency) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Dam­ages Sought from the UN for Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims (Miami Her­ald) — Novem­ber 8, 2011

Back­ground Articles:

• UN Secu­rity Coun­cil Vis­its Haiti on 4-Day Mis­sion to Assess Man­date — Feb­ru­ary 14, 2012
• REFILE-U.N. Secu­rity Coun­cil Vis­its Haiti to Assess Secu­rity — Feb­ru­ary 13, 2012
• Lead­ers of Caribbean Com­mu­nity, U.N. Secu­rity Coun­cil Arrive in Haiti — Feb­ru­ary 13, 2012
• Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims to UN: Prac­tice What You Preach — Feb­ru­ary 7, 2012
• Cholera and Blame in Rural Haiti — Jan­u­ary 27, 2012
• Sci­en­tists: UN Sol­diers Brought Deadly Super­bug to Amer­i­cas ( By Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rym Mom­taz, abcnews.go.com) — Jan­u­ary 12, 2012
• Haiti cholera death toll nears 7,000: expert (Medicalxpress.com) — Jan­u­ary 6, 2012
• Where the Relief Money Did and Did Not Go? Haiti After the Quake (Counterpunch.org) — Jan­u­ary 3, 2012
• Haiti aid groups see steady decline in num­ber of cholera cases (The Wash­ing­ton Post by Asso­ci­ated Press) — Decem­ber 22, 2011
• HATIAN CHOLERA VICTIMS TO U.N.: PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH (IndyStar.com) — Decem­ber 12, 2011
• Haiti Cholera Case Raises Ques­tions About U. N. Account­abil­ity (World Pol­i­tics Review) — Decem­ber 1, 2011
• US Depor­tees Face Ille­gal Deten­tions, Health Risk in Haiti (Miami Her­ald) — Novem­ber 15, 2011
• US Reviews Care of Deported Hait­ian Who Died (Herald-Tribune) — Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011
• Minustah’s Filthy Record in Haiti (The Guardian, UK) — Sep­tem­ber 11, 2011
• Haiti’s Need­less Cholera Deaths (New York Times) — Sep­tem­ber 6, 2011
• Reach­ing Haiti’s Cholera Vic­tims As Hard As Cur­ing The Dis­ease (Miami Her­ald) — Sep­tem­ber 5, 2011
• Beat­rice Lind­strom, Law in the Time of Cholera: Vio­la­tions of the Right to Water in Haiti (Huff­in­g­ton Post) — Jan­u­ary 21, 2011
• Haiti Still Lacks Safe Drink­ing Water and the Inter­na­tional Com­mu­nity Is Partly to Blame — Jan­u­ary 12, 2011
• UN Calls for Probe Into Ori­gin of Haiti Cholera (Asso­ci­ated Press) — Decem­ber 15, 2010
• Haiti cholera: UN Peace­keep­ers to Blame, Report says (BBC) — Decem­ber 8, 2010
• Haiti, the UN and Cholera on Elec­tion Day (Rab­ble News) — Novem­ber 28, 2010
• UN Wor­ries its Troops Caused Cholera in Haiti (Asso­ci­ated Press) — Novem­ber 19, 2010

IJDH Reports

• Is It Time for MINUSTAH to leave? — Feb­ru­ary 14, 2012
• Beyond Relief, Beyond Belief (Haitisupportgroup.org) — Jan­u­ary 5, 2012

• Case Doc­u­ments:
  • Demande de Repa­ra­tions: Français (IJDH-BAI) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Peti­tion for Relief: Eng­lish (IJDH-BAI) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
• Back­ground Material:
  • Haiti: Cholera — Fund­ing and Needs (as of Decem­ber 6, 2011) (OCHA) — Decem­ber 20, 2011
  • Haiti Cholera Case Raises Ques­tions About U. N. Account­abil­ity (World Pol­i­tics Review) — Decem­ber 1, 2011
  • Stand­ing Against Mil­i­tarism and Vio­lence: From Haiti to Fort Ben­ning (CommonDreams.org) — Novem­ber 18, 2011
  • Crimes, Con­flict, and Cholera: MINUSTAH – Sta­bil­is­ing the Sta­tus Quo (Haiti Brief­ing Sup­port Group) — Novem­ber 16, 2011
  • Under­stand­ing the Cholera Epi­demic, Haiti (Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion) — July 4, 2011
  • Final Report of the Inde­pen­dent Panel of Experts on the Cholera Out­break in Haiti (U.N. Inde­pen­dent Panel) — May 4, 2011
  • Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review: Right to Food, Water and San­i­ta­tion Report (NYU School of Law Cen­ter for Human Rights and Global Jus­tice, IJDH, LinkHaiti, Inc., Robert F. Kennedy Cen­ter for Jus­tice and Human Rights) — March 24, 2011
  • Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review: Haiti’s Renewal of MINUSTAH’s Man­date in Vio­la­tion of the Human Rights of the Hait­ian Peo­ple (Bri Kouri Nou­vèl Gaye, Men­non­ite Cen­tral Com­mit­tee Haiti, Let Haiti Live, UnityAy­iti) — March 24, 2011
  • The Ori­gin of the Hait­ian Cholera Out­break Strain (The New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine) — Jan­u­ary 6, 2011
  • Sta­tus of Forces Agree­ment (SOFA) Between the United Nations and the Gov­ern­ment of Haiti Con­cern­ing the Sta­tus of the United Nations Oper­a­tion in Haiti — July 9, 2004

Press Releases

• Eng­lish:
  • New Sur­vey Shows Res­i­dents of Haiti’s Cap­i­tal Have Neg­a­tive View of UN Troops and Feel They Should Com­pen­sate Vic­tims of Cholera — Feb­ru­ary 15, 2012
  • Press Release: Secu­rity Coun­cil, meet­ing in Haiti, Should Accept UN’s Respon­si­bil­ity for Cholera Epi­demic — Feb­ru­ary 13, 2012
  • Release of MINUSTAH Peace­keep­ers Filmed Rap­ing Hait­ian Youth is Lat­est Out­ra­geous Inci­dent of Peace­keeper Impunity (IJDH/BAI) — Jan­u­ary 9, 2012
  • MINUSTAH Must Take Respon­si­bil­ity for Caus­ing Cholera Epi­demic That’s Killed 7,000 Peo­ple, CEPR Co-Director Says (CEPR) — Decem­ber 19, 2011
  • Press Release: Hait­ian Vic­tims of UN Cholera Tell UN: “Uni­ver­sal Means Haitians Too” (IJDH-BAI) — Decem­ber 7, 2011
  • Press Release: Over 5,000 Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims Sue UN, Seek­ing Jus­tice (IJDH-BAI) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • Press Advi­sory: Press Con­fer­ence to Announce Devel­op­ments in Account­abil­ity of the UN and MINUSTAH for Haiti’s Cholera Out­break (IJDH). — Novem­ber 7, 2011
• Español:
  • Comu­ni­cado de Prensa: Víc­ti­mas Haitianos del Cólera Dicen a la ONU: “Uni­ver­sal Sig­nifica Haitianos Tam­bién” — Decem­ber 8, 2011
  • Comu­ni­cado de Prensa: Más de 5.000 Haitianos Víc­ti­mas del Cólera Deman­dan a la ONU, en Busca de la Jus­ti­cia (IJDH-BAI) — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • ASESORÍA DE PRENSA: Con­fer­en­cia de Prensa para Anun­ciar los Recientes Acon­tec­imien­tos en la Búsqueda de Respon­s­abil­i­dad de las Naciones Unidas y MINUSTAH por el Brote de Cólera en Haití (IJDH). — Novem­ber 7, 2011
• Français:
  • Choléra en Haïti : l’ONU visée par deux plaintes (By Swoan Parker, REUTERS) — Jan­u­ary 20, 2012
  • Press Release: Note de Presse sur le retour de Mr. Ronald Nel­son ( BAI, Française) — Decem­ber 21, 2011
  • Com­mu­niqué de Presse: Les Haï­tiens Vic­times du Choléra de l’ONU dis­ent à l’ONU: “Haïti est aussi par­tie de la Déc­la­ra­tion Uni­verselle des Droits Humains DUDH” (IJDH-BAI) — Decem­ber 7, 2011
  • Com­mu­niqué de Presse: Plus de 5,000 Haï­tiens Vic­times du Choléra ont porté plainte con­tre l’ONU/MINUSTAH afin d’obtenir Jus­tice et Répa­ra­tion (IJDH-BAI). — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • AVIS AUX MEDIAS: Con­férence de Presse pour Annon­cer les Développe­ments en Matière de Respon­s­abil­ité de l’ONU/MINUSTAH dans l’introduction du Cholera en Haïti(IJDH). — Novem­ber 7, 2011
• Kreyol:
  • Kominikie Lapres: Plis pase 5 mil Ayisyen Vik­tim Kol­era ap pouswiv Nasy­onzini nan lajis­tis, pou yo ka jwenn Jis­tis (IJDH-BAI). — Novem­ber 8, 2011
  • KOMINIKE POU LAPRÈS: Kon­fer­ans pou Laprès pou Anonse Devl­op­man nan Chache Respon­s­abi­lize ONU/MINUSTAH pou Epi­demi Kol­era nan Ayiti. — Novem­ber 7, 2011

Media: Pod­casts, Tele­vi­sion and Radio

• Creole-UN Haiti Del­e­ga­tion Protest at Fort National — Feb­ru­ary 16, 2012
• The UN and Cholera in Haiti — Feb­ru­ary 15, 2012
• When the Law is Not Enough: Cholera in Haiti and New Tools for Jus­tice — Feb­ru­ary 10, 2012
• Can Vac­cines Break Cholera’s Deadly Hold On Haiti? — Feb­ru­ary 7, 2012
• Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims Demon­strate in front of MINUSTAH Base for 2011 Human Rights Day — Jan­u­ary 18, 2012
• Assign­ment: Cholera in Haiti (BBC) — Decem­ber 15, 2011
• Haiti’s Earth­quake Recov­ery Marred by Forced Evic­tions, Cholera (WBEZ Chicago) — Novem­ber 21, 2011
• French — Haïti : Les vic­times du Choléra eEx­i­gent d’être Dédom­magées par l’ONU (EuroNews) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
• Watch Democ­racy Now’s Inter­view with IJDH Direc­tor Brian Con­can­non Speak About the Devel­op­ments in the Account­abil­ity of MINUSTAH for Haiti’s Cholera Out­break (Democ­racy Now). — Novem­ber 8, 2011

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