Down­load The Event Flyer: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Haitian-Earthquake-flyer-2012-REVISED-2-akl-edits.pdf

What: 2nd Annual Haiti Earth­quake Memo­r­ial. An event for Boston and Mass­a­chu­setts’ Hait­ian com­mu­nity and friends of Haiti to come together to memo­ri­al­ize the vic­tims of the earth­quake, reflect and agree on col­lec­tive action. The memo­r­ial will fea­ture the poetry of Patrick Syl­vain, spir­i­tual reflec­tion by Pas­tor Zephir, a musi­cal per­for­mance by Mendy Tou­s­saint, and more.

In addi­tion. The orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee, com­prised of Haitian-led orga­ni­za­tions in Boston, will dis­cuss what has occurred in the past year and how issues of water secu­rity and immigration––noted as points of con­cern by hun­dreds of 2011 event attendees–have evolved. Physi­cians for Haiti will deliver a pre­sen­ta­tion specif­i­cally focused on the cholera epidemic.

Yon even­man pou kominote ayisyen nan Boston ak tout eta Masa­c­houset la pou mete tet yo ansanm pou sonje vik­tim tran­ble­man­dete 12 Jan­vye 2010 yo, reflechi e aji sou yon aksyon koletif.

Where: Rox­bury Com­mu­nity Col­lege (RCC), Media Room, 1234 Colum­bus Ave, Rox­bury, MA (near/toupre Rox­bury Cross­ing station/estasyon)
When:   Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 14, 2012 @ 4 p.m., Samdi, 14 Jan­vye, 2012 @ 4 p.m.
For more/pou plis information/detay: Car­line Desire — (617) 287‑0096 — cdesire@afab-kafanm.org
Down­load Event Flyer: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/flyer-page-001.jpg

Who: Goldin Insti­tute
What: Vio­lence against women and girls in Haiti is three times higher since the Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake dis­placed neigh­bors and forced over a mil­lion peo­ple to live in tent cities.  At the same time, an amaz­ing story of resilience and hope is tak­ing root.

Since the Feb­ru­ary 2010 launch of the Secu­rity and Sen­si­ti­za­tion project in the Place Petion camp, the inci­dents of rape in the camp have stopped.

You are invited to an online video pre­miere of a short doc­u­men­tary about this inspir­ing project.
When: Tues­day, Decem­ber 20th from 2:00 to 2:30 pm (CST).

Who: Nicole Phillips, Human Rights Attor­ney, IJDH
What: Speak­ers Series  in Com­mem­o­ra­tion Of The Sec­ond Anniver­sary Of The Earth­quake In Haiti
Where: Uni­ver­sity Of Cal­i­for­nia School Of Law, Irvine. Room EDU 1131
When: Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 12, 2012. at 12:10
You can still come even with­out RSVP
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Boston Human Rights Night

What: Learn about the work of local social jus­tice orga­ni­za­tions, hear from expe­ri­enced human rights prac­ti­tion­ers on the rel­e­vance of inter­na­tional law to human rights pro­tec­tion, and sup­port the Inter­na­tional Jus­tice Resource Center.

When: Wednes­day, Novem­ber 9th, 5.00 pm

What: Hunger and Injus­tice in HAITI: How to Move For­ward with Lavarice Gaudin, the direc­tor of What If Foundation’s work in Haiti and a Hait­ian Agri­cul­ture and Human Rights Activist.
We hope you’ll join us to hear more about his excit­ing work, his per­sonal story, and his inspir­ing vision for Haiti’s agriculture.For more infor­ma­tion on the event or on ways to get involved, please con­tact Natalie Miller: 651–210-1492, mill5118@umn.edu

Where: Uni­ver­sity of MN, Nolte 140

Down­load Flier: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/UMN.Lavarice3-flyer.pdf

Enforc­ing Inter­na­tional Human Rights in Devel­oped vs Under-developed Nations: U.S. and  Haiti (Wednes­day, Novem­ber 2, 2011)

Who: Mod­er­a­tor — Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Pro­fes­sor of Law at UC Hast­ings, cur­rent Democ­racy Fel­low at USAID and HRA National Advi­sory Board Member.

Speak­ers -

• Eric Tars, Direc­tor of Human Rights and Children’s Rights Pro­grams National Law Cen­ter on Home­less­ness & Poverty, will speak about coor­di­nat­ing advo­cacy with local home­less­ness and hous­ing agen­cies in the U.S. and the coalition’s results with the UN Spe­cial Rap­pa­teur on the Right to Safe Drink­ing Water and San­i­ta­tion and the recent U.S. review under the UPR.
• Nicole Phillips, Staff Attor­ney, Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH), Assis­tant Direc­tor for Haiti Pro­grams at USF School of Law and Board Mem­ber of HRA will speak about efforts to halt forced evic­tions in Haiti’s post-earthquake dis­place­ment camps before the Inter-American Com­mis­sion on Human Rights and under var­i­ous UN pro­ce­dures, includ­ing Haiti’s UPR in October.
• Darya Lar­izadeh, Human Rights Advo­cates Grad­u­ate Fel­low and Law Clerk at the San Fran­cisco Pub­lic Defend­ers Office, will share her research on safe­guard­ing women’s rights to ade­quate hous­ing in post-disaster recov­ery in Haiti.

What: A con­ver­sa­tion with human rights and hous­ing experts as we exam­ine the use of United Nations and Inter-American Com­mis­sion on Human Rights instru­ments, com­par­ing their effec­tive­ness in two coun­tries on oppo­site ends of the eco­nomic spec­trum– Haiti & the U.S. The pan­elists will dis­cuss legal strate­gies and out­comes from their inter­na­tional advo­cacy, and how they applied the results domes­ti­cally to pro­tect hous­ing rights in each of the two coun­tries – includ­ing both coun­tries’ recent reviews under the Human Rights Council’s Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review (UPR).
Where: Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco School of Law, 2130 Ful­ton Street, San Fran­cisco, Rm 102
When: Wednes­day, Novem­ber 2, 2011 from 5:00–6:15 p.m.
Down­load Flier: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Flier-for-Nov-2-event_Final.pdf

Meet­ing with Mario Joseph at The Haiti Fund at The Boston Foun­da­tion ( Thurs­day Octo­ber 27th, 2011)

Please join us next Thurs­day evening from 5:30-7pm at the Boston Foun­da­tion, to hear IJDH Hait­ian affil­i­ate, the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI)‘s Man­ag­ing Attorney, Mario Joseph, speak about human rights in Haiti. This excit­ing event is spon­sored by one of IJDH-BAI’s key sup­port­ers and part­ners, the Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation, who we can­not thank enough for their help in fight­ing for the rights of Haiti’s poor majority.

Haiti­Corps International’s Hand­bag Project (Wednes­day Octo­ber 19th, 2011)

Who: Haiticorps Inter­na­tional

When: Wednesday, Octo­ber 19th 2011. 6:00–10:00pm

Where: New York, NY. Pangea Restau­rant (178 2nd Ave. Between 11th and 12th)

About the Hand­bag Project:

Haiti­Corps Inter­na­tional is devel­op­ing a new project with Ann Heckathorn, an Amer­i­can hand­bag designer and man­u­fac­turer. Ann has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the hand­bag indus­try and a deep knowl­edge of the entire pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion process. Ann will work closely with HCI to select sev­eral high-quality and suc­cess­ful designs from her own pro­duc­tion runs. These designs will be the foun­da­tion of a new series of hand­bags made in Haiti that will fea­ture bead­work, embroi­dery, quilt­ing, and cro­chet­ing in Hait­ian artis­tic and dec­o­ra­tive styles. The fin­ished bags will be mar­keted and sold in the United States.

The Hand­bag Project will pay a fair wage to all employ­ees and will estab­lish a profit-sharing agree­ment with Hait­ian part­ner orga­ni­za­tions. Our first part­ner will be FAVILEK (Fanm Vik­tim Leve Kanpe, or Women Vic­tims Get Up Stand Up), an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to help­ing women who have been vic­tims of vio­lence. For almost twenty years, FAVILEK has fought for jus­tice and repa­ra­tions for women who were raped, tor­tured, impris­oned, or abused under the mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship. Today, FAVILEK works with women in relief camps for the inter­nally dis­placed to doc­u­ment and report instances of rape and other forms of gender-based violence.

Through the Hand­bag Project, HCI and FAVILEK will train women in sewing and other tech­niques and offer sta­ble employ­ment with a fair wage. A profit-sharing agree­ment between HCI and FAVILEK will also ensure that the project remains respon­sive to the needs of Haitians them­selves and will allow FAVILEK to expand its much-needed pro­grams to women in pre­car­i­ous situations. $20 sug­gested donation

Unable to attend?
Make a dona­tion on our Razoo page:
http://www.razoo.com/story/Hci-Handbag-Project

Click here to see orig­i­nal flyer: http://haiticorps.givezooks.com/events/haiticorps-international-s-first-ever-fundraising-event

“Con­tin­u­ing Legal Edu­ca­tion Sem­i­nar: The Inter-American Sys­tem: Inter­na­tional Options When Jus­tice is Blocked, Octo­ber 13, Philadel­phia, fea­tur­ing IJDH’s Brian Concannon”

Who: Pre­sen­ta­tions by the following -

• Brian Con­can­non, founder and direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti
• Jeanne Mirer, pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Demo­c­ra­tic Lawyers and co-chair of the NLG Inter­na­tional Committee
• Wilma Reverón, Puerto Rican attor­ney who has rep­re­sented the inde­pen­dence move­ment at the United Nations and who has trav­eled widely through­out Latin Amer­ica to address decol­o­niza­tion pro­grams and inter­na­tional law.
• Antoinette Moore, human rights attor­ney who rep­re­sents the Mayan peo­ples in their lit­i­ga­tion with Belize of land and nat­ural resource rights.
• June Lorenzo, in-house coun­sel for the Pueblo of Laguna, a sov­er­eign nation and coun­sel with the Amer­i­can Indian Law Alliance. She has focused on the inter­na­tional appli­ca­tion of human rights law to indige­nous peoples.
• Mark Rowl­in­son, staff attor­ney with the Cana­dian Steel­work­ers Union and advo­cate with the Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Labour Lawyers

What: The CLE will focus on inter­na­tional law and US courts as well as use of the Inter-American sys­tem, par­tic­u­larly on issues of indige­nous rights, Puerto Rico, and labor rights, as well as options that can be explored when the legal sys­tem is oth­er­wise blocked. The CLE will look at the use of the IACHR as well as NAFTA and CAFTA tribunals.

Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1800 Mar­ket Street Philadel­phia, PA
When: 1pm — 4pm on Octo­ber 13th, 2011

CLE admis­sion is $75 for non-Guild attor­neys, $60 for Guild mem­bers, $50 for Inter­na­tional Com­mit­tee Mem­bers, and $25 for law students.

NOTE: For Guild mem­bers who would like to join the IC or renew your mem­ber­ship, com­bine and save! Come to the CLE and join the IC for $65, a sav­ings of $10.

REGISTER ONLINE: http://www.colombiahumanrightsdelegation.org/

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact international@nlg.org.

18th Annual Thomas J. White Sym­po­sium, “From Inno­va­tion to Trans­for­ma­tion: Part­ner­ships in Action.”

Who: Part­ners In Health
What: After months of plan­ning, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from our 12 field projects and sup­port­ers from across the U.S., Canada, and beyond are finally con­verg­ing in Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts. Join LIVE at 3 p.m. for the web­cast of the 18th Annual Thomas J. White Sym­po­sium, “From Inno­va­tion to Trans­for­ma­tion: Part­ner­ships in Action.” Our goal is to make this year’s Sym­po­sium just as, if not more, engag­ing for you online as it is for the sup­port­ers in the room. Here are a few things you can do.

• Fol­low #pih­sym on Twit­ter for exclu­sive web con­tent and to take part in the conversation.
• Invite your friends. The Sym­po­sium is PIH’s biggest event of the year and a great time to intro­duce your friends and fam­ily to our work and global health issues.
• WATCH! Visit http://www.pih.org/symposium at 3 p.m. EDT for the live webcast.

Where: Sanders The­atre in Harvard’s Memo­r­ial Hall in Cam­bridge
When: Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 24—is the big day, and we can’t wait to join you LIVE at 3 p.m.

Action­Aid Spon­sored Meet and Greet – Thu, Sep. 22 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm – Bus­boys and Poets, 5^th and K St NW

Fol­low Nicole Phillips, Esq., IJDH Staff Attor­ney, for updates from the work­shop — @nicoleIJDH.

Who: Action Aid
What: Join us for a net­work­ing, meet and greet with mem­bers of the ‘Je Nan Je’ Plat­form. ‘Je Nan Je’ is a grass­roots move­ment rep­re­sent­ing over 800,000 Haitians advo­cat­ing for a more just and inclu­sive recon­struc­tion process. Attend­ing ‘Je Nan Je’ mem­bers will include CROSE Direc­tors and for­mer Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Ger­ald Math­urin, Action­Aid Haiti HR Direc­tor and co-founder of the Hait­ian Min­istry of Women’s Affairs, Marie Andree St. Aubin, and Coor­di­na­tor of the National Hait­ian Netowork for Food Sov­er­eignty and Food Secu­rity, Doudou Pierre.
Where: Bus­Boys & Poets @ 5th & K NW, within walk­ing dis­tance of the Con­ven­tion Cen­ter.
When: Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2011, from 6–8 pm

Open Flyer: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/haiti-land-and-housing-rights2.png

Action­Aid Spon­sored Land and Hous­ing Work­shop – Thu, Sep. 22 – 8:30am to 3:00pm – United Methodist Build­ing, 100 Mary­land Ave NE

Fol­low Nicole Phillips, Esq., IJDH Staff Attor­ney, for updates from the work­shop — @nicoleIJDH.

Who: Action Aid
What: This work­shop brings together mem­bers of the US inter­na­tional NGO, Hait­ian Dias­pora and aca­d­e­mic com­mu­ni­ties cur­rently work­ing on Hait­ian land and hous­ing devel­op­ment, agrar­ian reform, advo­cacy for US aid account­abil­ity in the recon­struc­tion process, IDP camp relief efforts, shel­ter response, women’s rights and civil soci­ety par­tic­i­pa­tion with key mem­bers of the Hait­ian ‘Je Nan Je’ Land and Hous­ing Rights grass­roots plat­form, in order to share key find­ings, iden­tify com­mon advo­cacy objec­tives and deter­mine col­lec­tive recon­struc­tion rec­om­men­da­tions to be shared with the US and Hait­ian gov­ern­ments, multi-lateral insti­tu­tions and inter­na­tional agen­cies.
Where: United Methodist Build­ing, 100 Mary­land Ave NE, Wash­ing­ton, DC
When: Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2011 – 8:30am-3:00pm

Click here to down­load work­shop descrip­tion: http://ow.ly/6ARLc

Please let me know if you can attend either event. We’d love to have you and your great exper­tise at the table!

RSVP: Elise Young, Senior Pol­icy Ana­lyst
Phone: +1–202-631‑6335
e-mail: elise.young@actionaid.org
www.actionaidusa.org

Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 22: Haiti: A New Begin­ning, 41st Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Foun­da­tion (CBCF) Annual Leg­isla­tive Conference

Co-Hosted by:

• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Fredricka Wilson
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Yvette Clarke
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Meeks
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Waters
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Payne

Panel 1:

Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 21: Haiti: She’s My Sis­ter, 41^st Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Foun­da­tion (CBCF) Annual Leg­isla­tive Conference

Who: Led by CBCF Fel­lows Ifeoma Ike, Gre­gory Tinch and Bianca Oden

Panel 1:

• Brian Con­can­non Jr., Esq. Direc­tor, Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti
• DouDou Pierre– Regional Coor­di­na­tor, RENHASSA (National Hait­ian Net­work for Food Security)
• Marie Andree St. Aubin– Direc­tor of Human Resources and Orga­ni­za­tional Devel­op­ment, Action­Aid Haiti; orig­i­nal co-founder of the Hait­ian Min­istry of Women’s Affairs
• Ger­ald Mathurin-Regional Coor­di­na­tor, KROSE (Regional Coali­tion of South­ern Organizations)
• Rox­anne Paisible-Haiti Advo­cacy & Research Offi­cer, Inter­na­tional Res­cue Committee

Panel 2:

• Etant Dupain– Journalist/Community Organizer/Campaign Educator
• Jon Bougher– Filmmaker/Documentarian, “Bound By Haiti”
• Dominique Tou­s­saint– Chair, Mobi­lize for Haiti
• Marie Eramithe Delva– Co-founder/Co-director/Executive Sec­re­tary, KOFAVIV (Com­mis­sion of Women Vic­tims for Victims)
• Jocie Philisin– Project Coor­di­na­tor, KOFAVIV (Com­mis­sion of Women Vic­tims for Victims)
• Remarks by the Hon­or­able Don­ald M. Payne (NJ-10)
• Poem by Keren Charles Dongo, Com­mu­nity Engage­ment Man­ager, ONE
• Mem­bers of Haiti’s Par­lia­ment will also be in attendance.

What: The Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake that rocked Haiti was an inter­na­tional story.  Much has been reported, yet there is still so much to unearth about the after­math of what many deem to be one of the great­est tragedies in his­tory.  Shar­ing the same hemi­sphere as the United States, “Haiti: She’s My Sis­ter” allows the voices of those directly impacted to share their post-earthquake expe­ri­ences, and to explore why US-Haiti rela­tions must strengthen as we approach the two-year anniver­sary of the 2010 earthquake.

FREE TO THE PUBLIC!
Where: Walter E. Wash­ing­ton Con­ven­tion Center, Room 146-A, Washington, D.C.
When: Wednesday, Sep­tem­ber 21, 2011, 12–2 p.m

Septem­ber 14, 2011: IJDH Office Open­ing Event
Who: Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH)
What: Office Open­ing Cel­e­bra­tion – Join us to cel­e­brate the estab­lish­ment of a Boston-based head­quar­ters for IJDH.
Where: IJDH Offices at 666 Dorch­ester Ave, South Boston MA 01217
When: Sep­tem­ber 14, 6–8 p.m.
RSVPs strongly encour­aged. Please email: info@ijdh.org if you’re plan­ning to attend.
Down­load flyer: Office Open­ing Flyer (pdf)

Mesi, thank you, to every­one who has encour­aged and sup­ported this endeavor. A spe­cial thanks to the fol­low­ing orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als: Still Har­bor, Ed Car­doza and Perry Dougherty, Ropes & Gray LLP, Board Mem­bers, Staff and Sup­port­ers Including: Regan Remil­lard, Al & Diane Kaneb, The McLaugh­lin Fam­ily, The Kelly Fam­ily, Alyssa Eisen­berg and Rob & Jes­sica Broggi

Please mark your cal­en­dars!  More infor­ma­tion will fol­low in the com­ing weeks.
Ques­tions? Con­tact info@ijdh.org.

For pic­tures from the cel­e­bra­tion, click here.
For videos of some of the event’s impres­sive speak­ers, Marie St. Fleur, Esq., Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s Chief of Advo­cacy and Strate­gic Invest­ment and Brian Con­can­non, IJDH Direc­tor, click on the above cor­re­spond­ing links.

July 29, 2011: Free Legal Con­sul­ta­tion and Assis­tance with TPS Appli­ca­tions by Catholic Char­i­ties
When: Fri­day July 29th
Where: Embassy Suites Hotel 661 N.W. 53rd Street, Boa Raton, Florida 33487
What: Tem­po­rary Pro­tected Sta­tus (TPS) con­sul­ta­tions and appli­ca­tions pre­pared for qual­i­fied appli­cants.  Light snacks will be pro­vided.  RSVP to Catholic Charites (561) 494‑0928 leav­ing your name, num­ber and the code word “TPS event” on the voice mail.

July 14, 2011: Kick­off of the National Lis­ten­ing Tour
Who:Haitian Fund for Inno­va­tion (NY), Kon­bit for Haiti (FL), the Lambi Fund (Haiti), and Oxfam Amer­ica (Boston/DC) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Boston Hait­ian Reporter
What: The kick­off of a national lis­ten­ing tour.  This is the first in a series of work­ing meet­ings around the coun­try where the dias­pora can learn and par­tic­i­pate in a con­ver­sa­tion in which – the col­lec­tive Hait­ian dias­pora – can acti­vate the pow­er­ful voice of Haitian-Americans for bet­ter US poli­cies towards Haiti. This is an oppor­tu­nity to meet and work with a group of diverse lead­ers to help craft a com­mon advo­cacy agenda.
When: Thursday, July 14 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Where: Reg­gie Lewis Track and Ath­letic Cen­ter, 1350 Tremont Street in Rox­bury Cross­ing.
More con­text and back­ground: Lis­ten­ing Tour Kick­off (PDF)

This is an RSVP-only meet­ing.  To RSVP and/or get more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Mano­lia Char­lotin at mcharlotin@bostonhaitian.com or 617–436-1222 ext 22.

July 5, 2011: Inter­na­tional Activism and the His­tory of Haiti
Who: Roger Annis, Co-founder of Canada Haiti Action Net­work
What: Roger Annis will speak about his recent human­i­tar­ian and orga­niz­ing work in Haiti, the upcom­ing Cana­dian inves­tiga­tive del­e­ga­tion, of which he is a leader, and CHAN’s role in advo­cat­ing for Hait­ian auton­omy and social jus­tice both in con­ti­nen­tal North Amer­ica and Haiti itself. He will also dis­cuss effec­tive sol­i­dar­ity strate­gies for non-Haiti-based orga­ni­za­tions. There will be ample time for dis­cus­sion, debate, and ques­tions for Roger.
Where: 129 Franklin Street Apt 107 Cam­bridge, MA
When: Tues­day, July 5, 2011 7:00pm
Refresh­ments served.
Please RSVP to r.rattan@gmail.com.

June 7, 2011: Infor­ma­tion Ses­sion, TPS for Hait­ian Nation­als
Who: U.S. Cit­i­zen­ship and Immi­gra­tion Ser­vices
What: Infor­ma­tion Ses­sion, Tem­po­rary Pro­tected Status(TPS) for Hait­ian Nation­als
Where: Pen­te­costal Tav­er­na­cle Church, 18413 NW 7 Avenue, Miami, FL 33169
When: Tues­day, June 7, 2011 7:00–9:00 pm
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis

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May 24, 2011: No Such Thing as Tired Fundraiser for Women’s Rights in Haiti
Who: Meena Jagan­nath, BAI Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Network(LERN) Legal Fel­low
What: The event is a ben­e­fit and silent auc­tion of Hait­ian art to sup­port women’s rights work in Haiti with the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI)/Institute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH). Pro­ceeds from the event will go towards pro­vid­ing a Hait­ian pub­lic inter­est law firm (BAI) and grass­roots groups with sup­port and access to the inter­na­tional legal and human rights com­mu­nity by fund­ing a Fel­low for one year through the Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work (LERN).
Where:  Polar Lounge in Gramercy, 201 E 24th St at 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10010
When: Tues­day, May 24, 2011 7:00 pm — 10:00 pm
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176397

May 24, 2011: Haiti, Where to Next?
Who:
–Nicole Phillips, Staff Attor­ney at the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH)
–Pierre LaBossiere, Co-founder of the Haiti Action Com­mit­tee
–Jeb Sprague, Grad­u­ate stu­dent in Soci­ol­ogy at UCSB
–Paul Amar, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in Soci­ol­ogy in Global and Inter­na­tional Stud­ies at UCSB
What: In the after­math of Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake and the poorly attended pres­i­den­tial elec­tion held in March of 2011, what are the imme­di­ate and long-term con­di­tiosn unfold­ing in Haiti? Join us for dis­cus­sions and a Q&A con­sid­er­ing ongo­ing devel­op­ments in Haiti and what we can expect over the hori­zon.
Where: Orfalea Cen­ter Sem­i­nar Room, 1005 Robert­son Gym, Santa Bar­bara, CA
When: Tues­day, May 24, 2011, 1:00 pm — 2:30 pm

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May 19, 2011: The Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Haiti Ini­tia­tive at UCSF would like to for­mally invite you to a panel dis­cus­sion titled “A Crit­i­cal Analy­sis of Global Devel­op­ment and Inter­na­tional Aid in Haiti.“
Who:
–Nicole Phillips, Staff Attor­ney at the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH)
–Dr. Sri­ram Shama­sun­der, Assis­tant Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor in the UCSF Depart­ment of Med­i­cine
–Dr. Ramona Tas­coe, a recently appointed Inter­na­tional Con­sul­tant for health care devel­op­ment for the State
Uni­ver­sity Hos­pi­tal (HUEH) and Med­ical School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
–Andrew Mac­caulla, Haiti Pro­gram Oper­a­tions Spe­cial­ist for Direct Relief Inter­na­tional
What: Dis­cuss global devel­op­ment and inter­na­tional aid in Haiti through the per­spec­tives and expe­ri­ences of the pan­elists
Where: UCSF School of Nurs­ing, N-217, San Fran­cisco, CA
When: Thurs­day, May 19 2011, at 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221004951244779

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May 17, 2011: Canada Haiti Action Net­work invites you to Free Pub­lic Forum with spe­cial guest, Brian Con­can­non. (Can­celed)
Who: Brian Con­can­non (Direc­tor of Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti)
What:  Dis­cus­sion about Polit­i­cal, Legal, and Human Rights Sit­u­a­tion in Haiti
Where: Room 5–230, OISE 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
When : Tues­day, May 17 2011, at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/attorney-brian-concannon-ijdh-speak-toronto

May 12, 2011: Boston Hait­ian Reporter Invites you to the First Annual Boston Hait­ian Hon­ors.
Who: Boston Hait­ian Reporter
HONORARY COMMITTEE:
United States Sen­a­tor John F. Kerry
Gov­er­nor Deval L. Patrick
Mayor Thomas M. Menino
Hon. Emmanuelle Dupi­ton
Con­sul Gen­eral of Haiti
State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Linda Dorcena Forry
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Part­ners In Health
Edwige Dan­ti­cat
Marie St. Fleur, City of Boston
Chan­cel­lor J. Keith Mot­ley, UMass Boston
Asso­ci­a­tion of Hait­ian Pas­tors
Edward W. Forry, Pub­lisher
What: Cel­e­brat­ing 10 years of Chron­i­cling the Haitian-American Expe­ri­ence by Hon­or­ing Our Pio­neers
Where: Sea­port Hotel– 1 Sea­port Avenue, Boston MA 02210
When: Thurs­day, May 12 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

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May 9, 2011: Brigham and Women’s Hos­pi­tal Depart­ment of Med­i­cine invites you to find out what your Col­leagues do with all that Spare Time
Who: Brigham and Women’s Hos­pi­tal
What: Med­i­cine & the Muse
Where: Cabot Atrium- 45 Fran­cis Street
When: Mon­day, May 9 2011
Exhi­bi­tion & Hors D’oeuvres at 5:00 p.m.
Live Per­for­mances at 6:00 p.m.
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.physiciansforhaiti.org/home.cfm

April 28, 2011: Jan nou wè l/“The Way We See It,” an upcom­ing exhi­bi­tion of Hait­ian women’s pho­tog­ra­phy, open­ing in New York, NY.

Who: Digital Democ­racy, FAVLIEK, KOFAVIV, KONAMAVID, KONAMSI

What: is a pow­er­ful col­lec­tion of 47 orig­i­nal pho­tographs taken over the last year with donated cam­eras by more than 30 Hait­ian women who have been vic­tims of gender-based violence. The col­lec­tion reflects a year of pho­tog­ra­phy work with Dig­i­tal Democ­racy and the pho­tographs cap­ture the women’s post-earthquake real­ity: tar­pau­lin shel­ters, makeshift bath­rooms and kitchens. In short, a world with few doors to lock in which no one has pri­vate space.

The Way We See It allows the world to view Haiti through an as-of-yet unseen per­spec­tive: the eyes of Hait­ian women liv­ing in Haiti today. All pro­ceeds from sales of the pho­tos and the cor­re­spond­ing cat­a­log will directly ben­e­fit the women who took the pho­tos, and the con­tin­ued work of Dig­i­tal Democracy. Event infor­ma­tion & tick­ets: http://jannouwel.eventbrite.com/

Where: Splash­light Stu­dios, One Hud­son Square, 75 Var­ick Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, 10003.

When: 7-9pm, Thurs­day, April 28, 2011.

http://jannouwel.eventbrite.com/

April 26, 2011: Come Dis­cuss How Neolib­eral Glob­al­iza­tion and the Inter­na­tional Aid Sys­tem Affect Issues of Gen­der in Haiti

Who:
–Mark Schuller, Film Maker and Pro­fes­sor of Dept. of Anthro­pol­ogy, CUNY
–Brian Concannon, Director of Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti
–Mano­lia Charlotin, Editor of Boston Hait­ian Reporter
What: Poto Mitan: Hait­ian Women, Pil­lars of the Global Econ­omy
Where: Starr Audi­to­rium, Belfer Bldg, Har­vard Kennedy School — 79 JFK St., Cam­bridge, MA.
When: Tues­day, April 26 at 6:30pm
For more infor­ma­tion: Please go to the Film Web­site at www.potomitan.net

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April 6, 2011: Rebuild­ing the Shaken Jus­tice Sys­tem in Haiti: Pro­mot­ing the Rule of Law since the Earth­quake, the Recent Elec­tions and Aristide’s Return. San Fran­cisco, CA

Who:
– Nicole Phillips, IJDH Staff Attor­ney and assis­tant direc­tor for Haiti pro­grams at USF’s Cen­ter for Law and Global Jus­tice
– Father Jomanas Eustache, the founder and Dean of École Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie (ESCDROJ), Hast­ings’ sis­ter law school in Haiti
– Mark Dan­ner, author of Strip­ping Bare the Body: Pol­i­tics Vio­lence War; Con­trib­u­tor to The New York Review of Books; Chancellor’s Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism and Pol­i­tics, UC Berke­ley
– Hast­ings Pro­fes­sors Karen Musalo and Richard Boswell will chair the panel, as founders of the Hastings-to-Haiti Part­ner­ship.
What: The earth­quake in 2010 shook the Hait­ian jus­tice sys­tem to its already-fragile core.  This panel dis­cus­sion will fea­ture three experts on the rule of law in Haiti.
Where: Room A., 198 McAl­lis­ter St., UC Hast­ings Col­lege of the Law (Map)
When: Wednesday, April 6 at 5 p.m. for recep­tion; event to begin at 5:30 p.m.
RSVPs are appre­ci­ated, but not required: hastingstohaiti@gmail.com, (510) 847‑8901.

March 31, 2011: Haiti & Aid Effec­tive­ness. Boston, MA

Who: Ronald Bernard and Gre­gory Adams with William Dorcena
What: Ronald Bernard, Hait­ian aid recip­i­ent and grad­u­ate stu­dent at The Heller School for Social and Pol­icy Man­age­ment at Bran­deis Uni­ver­sity, and Gre­gory Adams, Aid Effec­tive­ness Direc­tor at Oxfam Amer­ica, join mod­er­a­tor William Dorcena, Ford Hall Forum board mem­ber and co-founder/former pub­lisher of The Boston Hait­ian Reporter, to give voice to the trou­bled recov­ery after Haiti’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake and pon­der whether our nation sin­cerely intends to help.
Where: Main Func­tion Room at Suf­folk Law School, 120 Tremont Street, 1st floor
When:  6:30–8:00pm, March 31, 2011
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to www.fordhallforum.org/programs/haiti.

March 24, 2011: Women’s Human Rights in Haiti. Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: Lisa Davis, Malya Villard-Apollon with Melanie Debrosse
What: Since the Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake in Haiti, women and girls have faced increas­ing sex­ual vio­lence in IDP camps, with lit­tle response from the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment or the United Nations. A recent report by MADRE enti­tled Our Bod­ies Are Still Trem­bling, reveals that vio­lence against women in Haiti is on the rise, and more needs to be done to address the grow­ing epi­demic. Please join us for an impor­tant dis­cus­sion on the find­ings of the report.
Where: Cen­ter for Human Rights & Human­i­tar­ian Law, WCL room 100
When: 3:00–4:30, March 24 2011
For more infor­ma­tion, please go to http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center/images/gbvhaitiflier.jpg

March 18, 2011: V-Day Boston 2011: Spot­light on Vio­lence Against Women and Girls of Haiti. Boston, MA

Who: Cen­ter for Women’s Health & Human Rights and the United Nations Asso­ci­a­tion of Greater Boston Women’s Forum.
What: Join us for an evening of food and drink, infor­ma­tion, and global advo­cacy! Each year, the Inter­na­tional V-Day cam­paign increases aware­ness by focus­ing on a spe­cific group of women in the world who are resist­ing vio­lence with courage and vision. In 2011, V-Day’s Spot­light Cam­paign will shine on the Women and Girls of Haiti. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Suf­folk University’s Cen­ter for Women’s Health & Human Rights and the Women’s Forum at the United Nations Asso­ci­a­tion of Greater Boston, we are proud to bring you an evening of exper­tise that will raise aware­ness on the most crit­i­cal issues for women and girls in Haiti today. The Spot­light will include a live Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion and panel dis­cus­sion on the extreme lev­els of vio­lence against women and girls in Haiti, and will focus on the increased rates of sex­ual vio­lence since the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake that took place in Jan­u­ary 2010. We are proud to announce that the pre­sen­ta­tion will fea­ture guest speaker Brian Con­can­non Jr., Esq., Direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti. Sug­gested dona­tions of $10.00 are wel­come and will directly sup­port a rev­o­lu­tion­ary national cam­paign in Haiti lead by a coali­tion of women activists, includ­ing long­time V-Day activist Elvire Eugene, that will address sex­ual vio­lence through art, advo­cacy and legal ser­vices. Join us and stand for the women and girls of Haiti this V-Day sea­son!
Where: The Ameni­ties Room, Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
When: Fri­day, March 18. 6:00 — 7:45 pm
Reg­is­ter online here.

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Feb­ru­ary 22, 2011: Human Rights Law and Gender-based Vio­lence in Haiti: New Paths toward Pre­ven­tion and Account­abil­ity. New York, NY

Who: NYU School of Law, Cen­ter for Human Rights and Global Jus­tice
What: More than 1.5 mil­lion peo­ple were dis­placed by the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake that struck Haiti on Jan­u­ary 12, 2010. Since that time, accounts of inci­dents of gender-based vio­lence in camps for inter­nally dis­placed peo­ple have spiked, caus­ing alarm among camp res­i­dents, civil soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions, NGOs, and other con­cerned actors. This vio­lence is tak­ing place in a con­text of extreme resource scarcity, lack of secu­rity, weak judi­cial and secu­rity sec­tor capac­ity, and vul­ner­a­bil­ity for vast swaths of the IDP pop­u­la­tion. These fac­tors are aggra­vated by what has largely been viewed as an inad­e­quate response by both the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment and the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity, com­pli­cated by—among other elements—the resump­tion of depor­ta­tions of undoc­u­mented Haitians from the US to Haiti and stalled dis­burse­ment of pledged aid by the US gov­ern­ment as Haiti under­goes a sig­nif­i­cant polit­i­cal tran­si­tion. Despite these many obsta­cles, sev­eral groups are fight­ing against the tide to doc­u­ment, advo­cate, and lit­i­gate against gender-based vio­lence in Haiti. This panel dis­cus­sion brings together rep­re­sen­ta­tives from sev­eral groups who are tack­ling this issue from mul­ti­ple angles, includ­ing through a sur­vey on the con­nec­tions between GBV and access to food and water in the camps; a peti­tion for pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures before the Inter-American Com­mis­sion on Human Rights (IACHR) to require that the gov­ern­ment of Haiti and the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity take such imme­di­ate action as ensur­ing secu­rity and installing light­ing in the camps; sev­eral cases being filed on behalf of vic­tims within the Hait­ian judi­cial sys­tem; and exten­sive efforts at cre­at­ing stronger net­works for out­reach, refer­ral, and pro­tec­tion on the ground. Please join us in wel­com­ing a dis­tin­guished group of pan­elists who will dis­cuss both the obsta­cles and pos­si­ble avenues to jus­tice for GBV tak­ing place in the Hait­ian con­text today includ­ing: Malya Villard-Appolon, Co-Founder of Hait­ian Women’s Rights Orga­ni­za­tion KOFAVIV; Lisa Davis, Esq., Human Rights Advo­cacy Direc­tor, MADRE, Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Law for the Inter­na­tional Women’s Human Rights Clinic, CUNY; Meg Sat­terth­waite, Fac­ulty Direc­tor, CHRGJ; Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Clin­i­cal Law, NYU Global Jus­tice Clinic; Yifat Susskind, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, MADRE
Where: Room 206, Fur­man Hall (245 Sul­li­van Street), NYU School of Law
When: Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 22, 2011, 6–8 PM (fol­lowed by a recep­tion)
Please RSVP to ryank@exchange.law.nyu.edu

Feb­ru­ary 20, 2011: Fundraiser and Dis­cus­sion of Legal Strate­gies to Bring Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duva­lier to Jus­tice. St. Paul, MN

Who: National Lawyers Guild, Haiti Relief Coali­tion, Haiti Jus­tice Alliance of North­field, St. Olaf Haiti Relief Efforts
What: Join human rights lawyers Mario Joseph and Brian Con­can­non for a dis­cus­sion on their roles and legal strate­gies in pros­e­cut­ing the case against the late Hait­ian dic­ta­tor Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duva­lier. Come hear about the most recent news from Haiti from Haiti’s top human rights lawyers and add to the dis­cus­sion of advanc­ing human rights. This fundraiser is co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild, Haiti Jus­tice Alliance of North­field, Haiti Relief Car­leton, and St. Olaf Haiti Relief Efforts, and works to bring atten­tion to impor­tance of legal advo­cacy in Haiti’s quest for sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. There is no cost to attend, but dona­tions are warmly wel­comed. Light hors d’oeuvres and bev­er­ages will be provided. The event will be an oppor­tu­nity for you to sup­port and learn more about the Duva­lier pros­e­cu­tion and human rights in Haiti. Con­can­non and Joseph will also take part in 3 other events on Feb­ru­ary 21–22 at St. Olaf and Car­leton Col­lege, as part of Haiti Human Rights week pre­sented by the Haiti Jus­tice Alliance of North­field, which con­sid­ers the impor­tance of legal advo­cacy as a foun­da­tion for suc­cess­ful inter­na­tional aid efforts; where Joseph and Brian will offer an addi­tional inside view of their work and the human rights con­di­tions in Haiti after the earth­quake.
Where: William Mitchell Col­lege of Law, St. Paul, MN.
When: Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 20, 2011, 7-9pm (fol­lowed by a reception)

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Jan­u­ary 19, 2011: Haiti One Year Later: Human Rights and Devel­op­ment After the Earth­quake. Boston, MA

Who: Boston Bar Association, Sponsoring Section/Committee(s): International Pub­lic Law, Pol­icy and Human Rights Immi­gra­tion Law Sec­tion
What: Jan­u­ary 12, 2011 will mark the one– year anniver­sary of the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake in Haiti. Hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple were killed and approx­i­mately 1 mil­lion were left home­less. As the Hait­ian peo­ple have strug­gled to rebuild over the past year, the events of Jan­u­ary 2010 have set forth numer­ous debates on human rights and devel­op­ment, human­i­tar­ian aid, and U.S. immi­gra­tion pol­icy. Please join our esteemed pan­elists Brian Con­can­non, Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti, Donna Barry, Part­ners in Health, Bill Graves, Graves & Doyle, and Mano­lia Char­lotin, Boston Hait­ian Reporter, as we look at these and other issues.
Where: Boston Bar Asso­ci­a­tion, 16 Bea­con Street, Boston, MA
When: Jan­u­ary 19, 2011 at 4pm

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Jan­u­ary 17, 2011: Wait­ing for Jus­tice in Haiti: One Year Later.Washington, DC

Who: TransAfrica Forum and Let Haiti Live
Panel One: Bring­ing Haiti Home: The Real­ity on the Ground.
Speak­ers: Mari­cia Jean,Women Vic­tims Get Up Stand Up (FAVILEK), Alexis Erk­ert Depp, Haiti Advo­cacy Coor­di­na­tor of Men­non­ite Cen­tral Committee, Camille Chalmers, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Plat­form to Advo­cate for an Alter­na­tive Devel­op­ment (PAPDA), Josette Per­ard, Co-Founder of Lambi Fund of Haiti, Special Guest, Danny Glover, Chair of the Board of Direc­tors, TransAfrica Forum
Panel Two: Assess­ing One Year In: Account­abil­ity and Jus­tice
Speak­ers: Mano­lia Char­lotin, Edi­tor of the Boston Hait­ian Reporter,Gina Ulysse, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at Wes­leyan University, Nicole Lee, Pres­i­dent of TransAfrica Forum
What: Com­mem­o­ra­tive Sym­po­sium mark­ing the anniver­sary of the earth­quake in Haiti and Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. Day. “Injus­tice any­where is a threat to jus­tice every­where.” –Dr. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.
Where: Bus­boys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Wash­ing­ton, DC 20009
When: Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 17, 2011 from 9am-12pm

• If you weren’t able to attend, lis­ten to TransAfrica and Let Haiti Live’s Jan­u­ary 17 Haiti Symposium

Jan­u­ary 12, 2011: Haiti Earth­quake Anniver­sary Spe­cial on the Cal­lie Cross­ley Show. Boston, MA.

Who: State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Linda Dorcena Forry, Mano­lia Char­lotin of the Boston Hait­ian Reporter and Brian Con­can­non of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy (IJDH) in Haiti
What: Haiti Earth­quake Anniver­sary Spe­cial on the Cal­lie Cross­ley Show (WGBH– NPR Boston)
Where: Lis­ten in live on the inter­net or on 89.7 FM, or later by pod­cast.
When: Jan­u­ary 12, 2011, 1pm EST

Jan­u­ary 12, 2011: The Kenbe Fem Project. Boston, MA

Who: Still Har­bor,  www.stillharbor.org/kenbefem
What: On Jan­u­ary 12, 2011, there will be events through­out Haiti, the United States, and the world that remem­ber the hor­ri­ble tragedy of the earth­quake that hit Haiti almost one year ago. Our col­leagues at Still Har­bor have launched the Kenbe Fèm Project to memo­ri­al­ize the lives lost and grieve the ongo­ing trauma many are still fight­ing to over­come. Like the well-known AIDS Quilt or other col­lab­o­ra­tive com­mu­nity arts projects, The Kenbe Fèm Project is a par­tic­i­pa­tory col­lec­tive expres­sion of mourn­ing cre­ated and dis­played for per­sonal reflec­tion, pub­lic edu­ca­tion, and ongo­ing advo­cacy. Small pieces of fab­ric with words, images, or other expressions—called reflections—are hung on a sequence of strings form­ing threads of con­nected mem­o­ries or prayers. The result­ing dis­play rep­re­sents the power of many peo­ple com­ing together to mourn, grieve, and work to over­come trauma and loss. Find out how you can par­tic­i­pate by con­tribut­ing a reflec­tion of your own at the web­site listed above.

Jan­u­ary 12, 2011: After­shock. New York, NY

Who: Mari­cia Jean, Hait­ian Activist and Co-founder of Fanm Vik­tim Leve Kanpe “Women Vic­tims Get Up, Stand Up” (FAVILEK)
What: A per­for­mance and panel dis­cus­sion to honor and remem­ber Hait­ian women and girls on the anniver­sary of the earth­quake mod­er­ated by Jayne E. Fleming,Human Rights Lawyer and Cather­ine Filoux, Play­wright. FAVILEK was founded in the mid nineties by women who were vic­tims of polit­i­cally moti­vated sex­ual assault. One of their great­est achieve­ments was the suc­cess­ful pros­e­cu­tion of a Hait­ian para­mil­i­tary leader within U.S. court sys­tem with the assis­tance of the Bureau of Advo­cates Inter­na­tional, The Cen­ter for Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity and The Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tional Rights. The case won the women of Haiti redress against their assailants by way of psy­cho­log­i­cal coun­sel­ing, sup­port groups for their mem­bers as well as sup­port for their award win­ning the­ater group. To this day, the women of Haiti’s FAVILEK con­tinue to fight for eco­nomic and social jus­tice within the impov­er­ished and post quake envi­ron­ment of Port-au-Prince. $5-$20 sug­gested dona­tion to help sup­port the work of FAVILEK.
For more info / Email: Info@culturehub.org or Call: 415.659.4779
Where: Cul­ture­hub, 47 Great Jones St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012
When: Jan­u­ary 12, 2011 at 7pm

Jan­u­ary 8, 2011:  Give the Aid to the Hait­ian Peo­ple Now! New York, NY

Who: The  Haiti  Sol­i­dar­ity  Net­work  of  the  North  East  (HSNNE),  Civil  Rights  Watch  Orga­ni­za­tion,  Com­mu­nity  Devel­op­ment   Inter­na­tional  (CDI),  Decem­ber  12th Move­ment,  Dias­pora  Com­mu­nity  Ser­vices,  Fri­day  Night  Hait­ian  Coali­tion,  Haitians  Uni­fied  for   Devel­op­ment  and  Edu­ca­tion  (HUDE),  Insti­tute  for  Jus­tice  &  Democ­racy  in  Haiti  (IJDH),International  Asso­ci­a­tion  Against  Tor­ture,     Jef­fer­son  Park  Min­istries,  Jus­tice  Alliance  Net­work  of  New  Jer­sey  (JAN-­‐NJ),  NJ  Hait­ian  Cham­ber  of  Com­merce,  NJ  Hait­ian  Stu­dents   Asso­ci­a­tion,  Orga­niz­ing  for  Haiti,    Pax  Christi  Metro  New  York,    Pax  Christi  NJ,  Saint Bridget’s Haiti Advo­cacy  Com­mit­tee,    Sis­ters  of  St.  Joseph  of  Philadel­phia,  Sus­tain­able  Orphan­ages  for  Hait­ian  Youth,  Unity  Ayiti.
What: Demon­stra­tion to demand effec­tive  med­ical  treat­ment  for  all  cholera  vic­tims; Per­ma­nent  hous­ing  for  the  home­less  earth­quake  vic­tims now;  Elim­i­na­tion  of  tent  cities; No  for forced evic­tions of IDP’s; Safe  water;  San­i­ta­tion; Resump­tion  of  food  aid; Secu­rity  for  peo­ple  liv­ing  in  tents;  Employ­ment  of  job­less  Haitians  in  the  rebuild­ing  and  recon­struc­tion;  Elim­i­na­tion  of  delays  and  diver­sion  of  mate­r­ial  aid;   Account­abil­ity and trans­parency for gov­ern­ment offi­cials, NGO’s and UN agen­cies, and  their  rep­re­sen­ta­tives  with  regard  to  receipt  and  expen­di­tures  of  Aid  money.
Where: Office of Pres­i­dent William J. Clin­ton, The United Nations Spe­cial Envoy for Haiti, 55 West 125th Street, New York, NY (between Lenox & 5th Avenues)
When: Jan­u­ary 8, 2011, from 10 to 12:30pm

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Decem­ber 8, 2010: What Haitians Want in Recon­struct­ing Haiti.
Boston, MA

Who: The Haiti Fund at the Boston Foun­da­tion
What: Con­ver­sa­tion with Jean-Claude Fignolé, Country Direc­tor for Action­Aid Haiti and a promi­nent Hait­ian leader in recon­struc­tion.
Where: 75 Arling­ton Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA
When: Wednes­day, Decem­ber 8, 2010 from 5:30-7pm

Decem­ber 2, 2010: Build­ing Haiti Back More Justly: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Earth­quake Response. Boston, MA

Who: Brian Con­can­non, Jr. and the Inter­na­tional Cen­ter for Ethics, Jus­tice, and Pub­lic Life at Bran­deis Uni­ver­sity
What: Dis­cus­sion of legal advo­cacy to address the root causes of Haiti’s vul­ner­a­bil­ity to dis­as­ter, and the impor­tance of plac­ing jus­tice near the top of earth­quake response pri­or­i­ties
Where: Bran­deis Uni­ver­sity, Heller School, Room G1
When: Thurs­day, Decem­ber 2, 2010 from 5–6:30pm

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Novem­ber 16, 2010: 10 Months Later — What About Haiti’s Home­less? New York, New York.

Who: York Col­lege and pan­elists Ray Lafor­est of Haiti Lib­erte and WBAI, Lionel Legros of WCKR and the Hait­ian Fathers Net­work, York Col­lege pro­fes­sor Mark Schuller, Lisa Davis of the women’s rights group Madre and the CUNY School of Law and Lily Cerat of Hait­ian Women for Hait­ian Refugees.
What: Dis­cus­sion the cholera epi­demic, dis­tri­b­u­tion of aid pack­ages, vio­lence against women, and other issues — as well as what Amer­i­cans can still do to help, before the cur­rent ses­sion of the U.S. Con­gress ends and before Haiti holds elec­tions on Nov. 28.
Where: The Atrium at York Col­lege, 94–20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
When: Tues­day, Novem­ber 16, 2010 from 6-8pm

Novem­ber 12, 2010: Demand­ing Jus­tice for Haiti: A TEACH-IN for account­abil­ity in aid and U.S. pol­icy. Boston, MA

Who: UnityAyiti, Institute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti, Students for Global Health at Har­vard Med­ical School, Physi­cians for Haiti, Bikes Not Bombs, the New Social­ist Project, Mass­a­chu­setts Coali­tion of Hait­ian Home­town Asso­ci­a­tions (MACHHA), The Pro­gres­sive Cau­cus at HKS, Har­vard Caribbean Law Asso­ci­a­tion, HKS Caribbean Cau­cus, HKS Haiti Cau­cus, Har­vard Islamic Soci­ety, HLS Law & Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment Soci­ety, Har­vard Law and Health Care Soci­ety, Human Rights Cau­cus at North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity, Human Rights PIC, Har­vard Long­wood Mus­lims
What: Speakers, film clips, music & dis­cus­sion on the major ques­tions affect­ing Haiti, 10 months on.  Despite the earth­quake, cholera, and hur­ri­canes, why is aid money still held up?  What do Haitians see as a vision for their future?  How can we sup­port them?
Where: 33 Har­ri­son Ave, Boston, MA (Down­town Crossing/Chinatown on the T)
When: Fri­day, Novem­ber 12, 2010 from 4-7pm

Novem­ber 10, 2010: Film Screen­ing of “Pot Mak Sonje” (Whoever Bears the Scar Remem­bers). Boston, MA

Who: IJDH and sup­port­ers
What: IJDH is screen­ing the film “Pot Mak Sonje” (Whoever Bears the Scar Remem­bers) at our new Boston office. The film tells the story of Haiti’s Raboteau mas­sacre and the ensu­ing human rights case, which con­tin­ues to be Haiti’s most sig­nif­i­cant human rights trial. The event will be a great way to meet Andrea Jami­son, our new Direc­tor of Devel­op­ment and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and Sarah Dougherty, IJDH Legal Staff,  and to learn how you can get involved with our work.
Where: 666 Dorch­ester Avenue, Boston, MA 02127
When: Wednes­day, Novem­ber 10, 2010 at 6pm

Novem­ber 5, 2010: Human Rights After­shocks: Haiti. Miami Gar­dens, FL

Who: Inter­cul­tural Human Rights Law Review, an intel­lec­tual forum for schol­ars and prac­ti­tion­ers.
What: Annual sym­po­sium involv­ing a thor­ough dis­cus­sion on the human rights issues sur­round­ing Haiti since the tragic earth­quake of Jan­u­ary 2010. The con­fer­ence will also shed light on Haiti’s his­tory of short­com­ings in gov­er­nance and its extreme poverty. Fea­tur­ing emi­nent legal schol­ars, attor­neys, judges, pol­icy mak­ers, delib­er­at­ing on Hait­ian gov­er­nance, for­eign assis­tance, inter­nally dis­placed per­sons, and child traf­fick­ing and adop­tion fol­low­ing the earth­quake, the sym­po­sium explores ways of devel­op­ing effec­tive solu­tions to prob­lems that vio­late respect and dig­nity of every human being, and of chart­ing new direc­tions in the strug­gle for human rights, jus­tice, and equal­ity in Haiti.
Where: St. Thomas Uni­ver­sity,  Moot Court Room
When: Novem­ber 5, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.

Octo­ber 29, 2010: Pol­i­tics and Human Rights in Post-Earthquake Haiti. Toronto, Canada

Who: Mario Joseph, Man­ag­ing Attor­ney of the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux, and Berthony Dupont, Edi­tor of Haiti Lib­erte
What: Fea­tured speeches at pub­lic forum
Where: Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity Stu­dent Cam­pus Cen­tre (Room SCC115), 55 Gould Street, Toronto
When: Friday, Octo­ber 29 at 7:30 pm

Octo­ber 27, 2010: Aid Account­abil­ity in Haiti Fol­low­ing the Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 Earth­quake. Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: George­town Haiti Coalition, Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Human Rights Action, Georgetown Law Amnesty Inter­na­tional Chap­ter
What: Three months after the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake in Haiti, over 150 gov­ern­ments gath­ered for an inter­na­tional donors con­fer­ence, pledg­ing $6.036 bil­lion in aid to Haiti for 2010 and 2011. But how much of this pledge has actu­ally been delivered? Come hear about apply­ing a human rights based approach to aid in Haiti, the impact on the sit­u­a­tion on the ground, and how the UN Office of the Spe­cial Envoy to Haiti is work­ing to encour­age trans­parency and account­abil­ity from donors.
Where: Hotung 2000, George­town Uni­ver­sity
When: October 27, 2010, 3:30 – 5:00 PM

Octo­ber 26, 2010: Haitians with­out Homes: Forced Evic­tions, Hur­ri­canes and Aid. Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: Nicole Lee, Pres­i­dent of TransAfrica Forum; Mario Joseph, Man­ag­ing Attor­ney at Haiti-based Bureau des Avo­cates Internationaux; Nicole Phillips, Staff Attor­ney at the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti
What: Edu­ca­tional event co-sponsored by TransAfrica Forum, Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti, Bureau des Avo­cates Inter­na­tionaux, the Inter­na­tional Human Rights Law Clinic at Amer­i­can University’s Wash­ing­ton Col­lege of Law, the dis­as­ter law cen­ter You.Me.We., and the Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco School of Law Cen­ter for Law and Global Jus­tice.
Where: TransAfrica Forum, 1629 K Street, NW, Wash­ing­ton, DC
When: Tues­day, Octo­ber 26, 2010 at 6pm

Octo­ber 14, 2010: Focus on Haiti Series: Building Haiti Back More Justly– A Human Rights-Based Approach to Earth­quake Response. Seat­tle, WA

http://www.world-affairs.org/calendar.cfm?eventID=1327&action=eventDetails

Who: The World Affairs Coun­cil presents Brian Con­can­non, Jr., Direc­tor of IJDH
What: Haiti’s Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake was not just a nat­ural dis­as­ter. The extreme dam­age it caused – over 200,000 dead, 1.5 mil­lion home­less – was less the con­se­quence of shift­ing tec­tonic plates than it was of unjust poverty-generating poli­cies that make Haiti extremely vul­ner­a­ble to any stress. Ten months after the ground stopped shak­ing, Haiti’s under­de­vel­op­ment con­tin­ues to impede the relief and recon­struc­tion efforts, and some relief and recon­struc­tion poli­cies threaten to rein­force the injus­tices that made Haiti so vul­ner­a­ble. Dis­placed per­sons face mass, ille­gal evic­tions from the camps that are their only home, women, many of them chil­dren, face an uncon­trolled epi­demic of sex­ual assault, hun­dreds of thou­sands of Haitians are mal­nour­ished while food aid sits in warehouses. The World Affairs Coun­cil presents Brian Con­can­non, Jr. Direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH), for a con­ver­sa­tion on using legal advo­cacy to address the root causes of Haiti’s vul­ner­a­bil­ity to dis­as­ter, and the impor­tance of plac­ing jus­tice near the top of earth­quake response pri­or­i­ties. Mr. Con­can­non will specif­i­cally address IJDH’s work to pro­tect vic­tims of sex­ual vio­lence, and peo­ple at risk of evic­tion from inter­nal dis­place­ment camps; and IJDH’s advo­cacy efforts to expose the gap in the deliv­ery of aid in Haiti.
Where: Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton — William H. Gates Hall, Room 138, Seattle, WA 98195
When: Thurs­day, Octo­ber 14, 2010, 6:30pm

Octo­ber 14, 2010: Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti CLE. Seat­tle, WA

Who: Brian Con­can­non, Jr., Direc­tor of IJDH
What: Dis­cus­sion of the inter­na­tional legal response to the earth­quake in Haiti, includ­ing legal work con­ducted in both Haiti and the United States. The CLE will dis­cuss the extreme mor­tal­ity of the earth­quake, to a large extent the result of inad­e­quate devel­op­ment of the rule of law in Haiti, and of inten­tional poli­cies imple­mented by the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment and the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity. Mr. Con­can­non will also dis­cuss both short-term efforts to enforce the rights of earth­quake vic­tims and longer-term efforts to build the sta­bil­ity nec­es­sary for Haiti to become less vul­ner­a­ble to the next nat­ural dis­as­ter.
Where: Offices of Gar­vey Schu­bert Barer, Sec­ond & Seneca Build­ing – 18th Floor, 1191 Sec­ond Ave., Seat­tle, WA
When: Thurs­day, Octo­ber 14, 2010, 12–1:30pm

Octo­ber 14, 2010: Panel Dis­cus­sion on the Upcom­ing Hait­ian Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions. Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: SAIS African Dias­pora Asso­ci­a­tion, the Haiti Renewal Alliance, and the Asso­ci­a­tion of Hait­ian Pro­fes­sion­als. Panelists: Frantz Toussaint, Regional Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Min­istry of Hait­ian Diaspora; Nicole Lee, Esq., President of TransAfrica Forum; Gary Pierre-Pierre, Editor In Chief, Hait­ian Times; James Morrell, Haiti Democ­racy Project; Marc Christophe, PhD, The Hait­ian Insti­tute
What: The objec­tive of the forum is to pro­vide a plat­form to dis­cuss and define the lead­er­ship issues that are at play in Haiti’s Pres­i­den­tial elec­tions.  The panel themes are designed to pro­vide the pub­lic with non-partisan infor­ma­tion about Haiti’s elec­toral process, its gov­er­nance struc­ture and the inter­ac­tion between the Hait­ian society, the Gov­ern­ment of Haiti, the Hait­ian Dias­pora and the Inter­na­tional com­mu­nity.
Where: Johns Hop­kins School of Advanced Inter­na­tional Stud­ies, 1717 Mass­a­chu­setts Avenue, NW, Room 500
When: Thursday, Octo­ber 14th, from 6:30–8:30pm

Octo­ber 12, 2010: Account­abil­ity in Haiti

Who: Human Rights Advo­cates in con­junc­tion with SBA, Inter­na­tional Law Soci­ety, and Cen­ter for Law and Global Jus­tice present pan­elists Brian Con­can­non, Jr., Darya Lar­izadeh, Eliz­a­beth Leone, Ben Lewis, and Ryan Smith
What: Panel dis­cus­sion
Where: Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco School of Law, Kendrick Hall, Room 100, 2199 Ful­ton Street.
When: Tues­day, Octo­ber 12, 2010 at 5:00pm

Octo­ber 5, 2010: Human Rights, Haiti’s Earth­quake, and the Inter­na­tional Community

Who: The Liu Insti­tute for Global Issues presents Nicole Phillips of the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti
What: Pre­sen­ta­tion on the role and respon­si­bil­ity of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity in assist­ing Haiti’s recov­ery
Where: Liu Insti­tute for Global Issues, Mul­ti­pur­pose Room, 6476 NW Marine Drive, Van­cou­ver
When: Tues­day, Octo­ber 5, 201o, 3:30pm

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Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010: An Evening of Sol­i­dar­ity With Women in Haiti. San Fran­cisco, CA

Who: Haiti Action Com­mit­tee and the Women’s Inter­na­tional League for Peace and Free­dom
What: Learn about the remark­able women’s orga­ni­za­tions at the grass­roots level that are mobi­liz­ing to rebuild Haiti. What is life like for Hait­ian women, many liv­ing in refugee camps, seven months after the quake? How do women eval­u­ate the inter­na­tional relief effort? What are their key demands?
Where: SF Friends (Quaker) Meet­ing House, 65-9th Street San Fran­cisco, (btw Mar­ket & Mis­sion Streets, by Civic Cen­ter BART)
When: Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010 from 7-9pm

Sep­tem­ber 25, 2010: Give the Aid to the Hait­ian Peo­ple Now Demon­stra­tion. New York, NY

Who: The Haiti Sol­i­dar­ity Net­work of the North East (HSNNE), Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tional Rights (CCR), Hait­ian Women for Hait­ian Refugees, Haitians Uni­fied for Devel­op­ment and Edu­ca­tion (HUDE), Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH), Pax Christi Metro New York, Pax Christi New Jer­sey, Peo­ples’ Orga­ni­za­tion for Progress, Ser­vice Employ­ees Inter­na­tional Union Local 1199 (SEIU 1199), The Catholic Worker
What: Demon­stra­tion to demand jus­tice in aid pol­icy toward Haiti.
Where: The Hait­ian Con­sulate of New York, 271 Madi­son Ave, New York, New York
When: Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2010 from 10am-12:30pm

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Sep­tem­ber 20, 2010: Strate­gies for Change in Haiti — Tack­ling of Gender-Based Vio­lence in Post-Earthquake Haiti. Char­lottesville, Virginia

Who: Law School Human Rights Pro­gram, J.B. Moore Soci­ety of Inter­na­tional Law, BLSA, Vir­ginia Law Women, and Rape Cri­sis Advo­cacy Project present Tamara Brown, Eramithe Delva, and Deena Hur­witz
What: Panel dis­cus­sion
Where: Caplan Pavil­ion, UVA School of Law
When: Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2010 from 11:30am-12:50pm

Sep­tem­ber 16, 2010: Haiti: Find­ing the Path to Rede­vel­op­ment. Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: Rep. John Cony­ers and the Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus, Fea­tur­ing Brian Con­can­non
What: A forum at the 40th annual Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Annual Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly to focus on leg­isla­tive, non-governmental and mul­ti­lat­eral efforts to rebuild and sus­tain the coun­try and peo­ple of Haiti.  This panel will also dis­cuss how the US and other Friends of Haiti can help be both a resource and a sta­bi­liz­ing part­ner in help­ing the coun­try cre­ate and imple­ment poli­cies and infra­struc­ture to fur­ther enable and empower its peo­ple.
Where: Wash­ing­ton Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, Room 209-A
When: Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 16,  2010, from 12:30pm-2:00pm

Sep­tem­ber 15, 2010: Dis­cus­sion with Eramithe Delva of KOFAVIV (Com­mis­sion of Women Vic­tims for Vic­tims) in Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: Eramithe Delva of KOFAVIV (Com­mis­sion of Women Vic­tims for Vic­tims) and Can­tave Jean-Baptiste, Part­ner­ship for Local Devel­op­ment
What: Dis­cus­sion as part of Haiti: From Sur­vival to Sov­er­eignty, a spe­cial series of events in con­junc­tion with the Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Annual Leg­isla­tive Con­fer­ence
Where: WPFW 89.3 “Africa Now!“
When: Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2010 from 11am-12pm

Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010: Strate­gies for Change in Haiti: Tack­ling the Chal­lenges of Gen­der Based Vio­lence in Post-earthquake Haiti, in New York, New York

Who: New York Uni­ver­sity School of Law Cen­ter for Human Rights and Global Jus­tice Presents:

• Brian Con­can­non, Direc­tor, Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH)
• Eramithe Delva, Found­ing mem­ber of KOFAVIV (Komisyon Fanm Vik­tim pou Vik­tim, The Com­mis­sion of Women Vic­tims for Victims)
• Emily Jacobi, Co-director of Dig­i­tal Democracy
• Mar­garet Sat­terth­waite, Fac­ulty Direc­tor, CHRGJ; Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Clin­i­cal Law of the Global Jus­tice Clinic, NYU School of Law
• Mar­garette Trop­nas, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Dwa Fanm

What: A multi-disciplinary panel dis­cus­sion about gen­der based vio­lence in Haiti as the coun­try works to rebuild itself after the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake of Jan­u­ary 2010.
Where: New York Uni­ver­sity, Fur­man Hall 212
When: Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010 from 6-8pm

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Sep­tem­ber 11, 2010: A Night for Jus­tice in Haiti — Fundraiser for the Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work Fel­lows Pro­gram. New York, NY

Who: Hait­ian women’s grass­roots leader Eramithe Delva, IJDH staff attor­neys Nicole Phillips and Blaine Bookey, IJDH sup­port­ers and inter­ested com­mu­nity mem­bers.
What: Silent Hait­ian art auc­tion and DJs Gian­carlo and Mani Fea­tur­ing Tolonted. Pro­ceeds sup­port the Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work Fel­lows Pro­gram.
Where: Diva Restau­rant and Bar, 341 West Broad­way, New York, NY
When: Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 11, 2010 from 9-11pm

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August 31, 2010:  Secu­rity After the Quake? Address­ing Vio­lence and Rape in Haiti in Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who:

• Lina Abirafeh, Gender-Based Vio­lence Coordinator, United Nations Human­i­tar­ian Response
• Louis-Alexandre Berg, Peace Scholar, U.S. Insti­tute of Peace
• Lisa Davis, Human Rights Advo­cacy Director, MADRE
• Robert Perito, Director, Haiti Program, U.S. Insti­tute of Peace
• Kath­leen Kuehnast, Mod­er­a­tor, Gen­der Advi­sor, Gen­der and Peace­build­ing Ini­tia­tive, Cen­ters of Innovation, U.S. Insti­tute of Peace

What: Eight months after the earth­quake, more than one mil­lion Haitians are still liv­ing in some 1,300 makeshift camps. Inhab­i­tants of these camps have become tar­gets of vio­lent crime, par­tic­u­larly rape. Despite efforts by the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment, the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity and local activists, women and girls are being raped in the camps, often by armed attack­ers. What steps are being taken to address crime and pro­tect against rape in Haiti? What lessons can be learned for future post-disaster human­i­tar­ian responses? A panel of experts will address these ques­tions.
Where: United States Insti­tute of Peace, 2nd Floor Con­fer­ence Room, 1200 17th St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
When: August 31, 2010, 2pm-4pm

August 7, 2010: Con­gress­woman Waters Con­venes Key Stake­hold­ers for Brief­ing on Haiti in Los Angeles

http://www.usip.org/events/security-after-the-quake-addressing-violence-and-rape-in-haiti

 

Who:

• Con­gress­woman Max­ine Waters (CA-35);
• Danny Glover, Actor, Activist and Chair­man of the Board of Direc­tors of TransAfrica Forum;
• Nicole Phillips, Esq., Staff Attor­ney, Insti­tute for Jus­tice and Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH) and Adjunct Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco School of Law;
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the U.S. State Depart­ment and the U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment (USAID);
• FAME Pas­tor John J. Hunter and First Lady Denise Hunter, hosts

What: Seven months after the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake that left approx­i­mately 230,000 peo­ple dead and mil­lions injured and dis­placed, Con­gress­woman Waters is con­ven­ing Fed­eral, com­mu­nity, reli­gious, aca­d­e­mic and non­profit lead­ers for a brief­ing on the state of recov­ery efforts in Haiti.
Where: FAME Renais­sance Cen­ter / 1868 W. Adams Blvd. / Los Ange­les, C.A. 90018
When: Sat­ur­day, August 7th at 11:00 am

July 28, 2010: In Our Own Hands: Live Video Exchange with Women in Haiti 6 Months After the Earth­quake in New York

Who: Dig­i­tal Democ­racy and Hait­ian Women’s Grass­roots Lead­ers
What: Live-streaming video from Haiti, pro­vid­ing a great com­mu­nity of peo­ple a show­cas­ing pho­tos taken by grass­roots Hait­ian women lead­ers as part of a dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy train­ing. Caribbean music and food for all to enjoy!
Where: Inter­ac­tive Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Pro­gram, 721 Broad­way, 4th Floor, New York, NY
When: Wednes­day, July 28, 2010 from 6-9pm ET.

July 27, 2010: Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus Hear­ing: Focus On Haiti: The Road to Recov­ery — A Six Month Review in Wash­ing­ton, DC

Who: Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus, Dr. Rajiv Shah, Dr. Paul Farmer, Lioune Viaud, Camille Chalmers, Ira Kurzban
What: Six months after Haiti’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake, par­tic­i­pants will share with mem­bers of the CBC their per­spec­tives on how U.S. pol­icy can best advance Hait­ian efforts to strengthen hous­ing, agri­cul­ture, jus­tice, health, gen­der equal­ity and over­all recon­struc­tion ini­tia­tives in post-earthquake Haiti.
Where: room 2141 of the Ray­burn House Office Build­ing, Wash­ing­ton, DC
When: Tues­day, July 27, 2010, 2-5pm

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