Pub­lished By Fran Quigley, Commonweal

On a swel­ter­ing after­noon in Port-au-Prince, I walked with a group of vis­it­ing U.S. human-rights lawyers up to a dusty lot filled …

Pub­lished By Alexis Erk­ert, Other Worlds

“As activists, we com­mem­o­rate this as a day of strug­gle, a day to make our voices heard until some­one pays …

By Mark Sny­der and Ellie Hap­pel, CEPR

At two in the morn­ing on Mon­day March 12th, 2012, the tents of Camp Lycèe Tou­s­saint in down­town Port-au-Prince …

Uploaded by msny­de­riat, YouTube

Around 2am, March 12, 2012, Kan Lycee was engulfed by flames. Those orga­niz­ing in the camp are very sus­pi­cious of arson. The following …

Pub­lished by Le Nou­vel­liste
Haïti: A l’initiative de “Rezo fanm BAI”, ‘un regroupe­ment d’organisation a organ­isé une man­i­fes­ta­tion paci­fique dans les rues de Port-au-Prince, le jeudi 8 …

Press Con­fer­ence held by BAI Women’s Net­work on 5 March 2012 to ask, before the occa­sion of Inter­na­tional Women’s Day, for jus­tice and repa­ra­tions for …

Pub­lished By Com­mon Dreams

An admis­sion ear­lier this week by Bill Clin­ton, for­mer US Pres­i­dent and now the United Nation’s Spe­cial Envoy to Haiti, that it …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 5, 2012
Con­tact:
Brian Con­can­non, Jr., Esq., Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti, brian@ijdh.org, +1–541–263‑0029 (Eng­lish, French, Cre­ole)
Mario Joseph, Av., Bureau des Avocats …

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2012
Con­tact:
Mario Joseph, Av., Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux, (in Haiti), mario@ijdh.org, +509‑3701–9879 (French, Cre­ole, Eng­lish)
Maria-Elena Kolovos, Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (in Haiti), mariaelena@ijdh.org, …

By Tim Fen­ster, The Stylus

When the Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake struck Haiti, the island nation was briefly thrown into the inter­na­tional spot­light.
How­ever, Brian Con­can­non, direc­tor of the Institute …