Indi­vid­ual Peti­tions | Requests for Pre­cau­tion­ary Mea­sures | Com­mis­sion Hearings

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Overview

IJDH and the BAI aggres­sively pur­sue Hait­ian cases in the Inter-American sys­tem for viola­tions of Haitians’ human rights. In IJDH’s most suc­cess­ful case to date, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) sharply crit­i­cized Haiti’s cur­rent and for­mer gov­ern­ments for their treat­ment of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Yvon Nep­tune in its first-ever case involv­ing Haiti. It found Haiti respon­si­ble for vio­lat­ing 11 dif­fer­ent pro­vi­sions of the Amer­i­can Con­ven­tion on Human Rights and ordered the gov­ern­ment to pay Mr. Nep­tune $95,000 in dam­ages and costs.

Indi­vid­ual Petitions

• Jimmy Charles v. Haiti: Grass­roots activist exe­cuted in police custody
• Hait­ian Vot­ers’ v. Haiti, U.S. and Domini­can Repub­lic: Hait­ian Cit­i­zens File Com­plaint For The Over­throw of Their Democracy
• Human Rights Groups v. U.S. & Brazil: Allege Human Rights Vio­la­tions Car­ried Out By Peace­keep­ing Forces
• Bob Moliere v. Haiti: Grass­roots Activist, Polit­i­cal Prisoner
• Yvon Nep­tune v. Haiti: For­mer Prime Min­is­ter, Polit­i­cal Prisoner
• Lysias Fleury v. Haiti: Human Rights Defender, Polit­i­cal Prisoner

Requests for Pre­cau­tion­ary Measures

• Request for pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures to imple­ment a mora­to­rium on unlaw­ful forced evic­tions from Haiti’s inter­nal dis­place­ment camps, Novem­ber 2, 2010
  • Legal Doc­u­ment: Request for Pre­cau­tion­ary Measures
  • Press Release: IACHR Expresses Con­cern Over Sit­u­a­tion in Camps for Dis­placed Per­sons in Haiti
  • Press Release: Haiti Gov­ern­ment Directed to Stop Evic­tions with­out Safe Shel­ter for Earth­quake Survivors
  • Press Release: Rights Groups Tes­tify Before Inter-American Com­mis­sion and File Legal Request on Unlaw­ful Forced Evic­tions in Haiti

• Request for pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures to pre­vent the irrepara­ble harm of rape, sex­ual vio­lence, and death of women and girls and women’s human rights defend­ers in the inter­nal dis­place­ment camps, Octo­ber 21, 2010
  • Legal Doc­u­ment: Request for Pre­cau­tion­ary Mea­sures — Octo­ber 21, 2010
  • Legal Doc­u­ment: Commission’s Deci­sion Grant­ing Pre­cau­tion­ary Mea­sures — Decem­ber 22, 2010
  • Report: Read an analy­sis of the Commission’s Deci­sion by Attor­neys for Peti­tion­ers — January 2011
  • Press Release: IACHR Com­mis­sion Sets Unprece­dented Rec­om­men­da­tions for Hait­ian Gov­ern­ment to Address Wave of Sex­ual Vio­lence in Dis­place­ment Camps — Decem­ber 22, 2010
  • Press Release: IACHR Expresses Con­cern Over Sit­u­a­tion in Camps for Dis­placed Per­sons in Haiti — Novem­ber 18, 2010
  • Press Release: Human Rights Groups File Legal Peti­tion on Sex­ual Vio­lence Against Women and Girls in Camps for Dis­placed in Haiti

Com­mis­sion Hearings

• Hear­ing on Sex­ual Vio­lence in Haiti, March 25, 2011
  • Press Release: Inter­na­tional Human Rights Hear­ing on Rape Epi­demic in Haiti
  • Record­ing of the hear­ing: Con­stant threat of sex­ual vio­lence faced by women and girls in Haiti’s dis­place­ment camps
  • Tes­ti­mony
    • Intro­duc­tion of tes­ti­mo­ni­als by Lisa Davis of MADRE
    • Tes­ti­mony of Malya Vil­lard Appolon (Kreyol, English)
    • Tes­ti­mony of Eramithe Delva (Kreyol, English)
    • Inter­ven­tion by Lisa Davis of MADRE
    • Inter­ven­tion of Kather­ine Romero of Women’s Link World­Wide (Span­ish, English)
  • Pic­tures from Hearing
• Hear­ing on LGBT Human Rights, March 25, 2011
  • Record­ing of the hear­ing: LBGT Rights
  • Participants: State of Haiti, Inter­na­tional Gay & Les­bian Human Rights Commission

• The­matic Hear­ing on Unlaw­ful Forced Evic­tions from the Inter­nally Dis­placed Per­sons’ Camps, Octo­ber 26, 2010
  • Press Release: Advo­cates Tes­tify Before Inter-American Com­mis­sion on Unlaw­ful Forced Evic­tions in Haiti
  • Record­ing of the hear­ing: Human Rights Sit­u­a­tion in the Camps for Inter­nally Dis­placed Per­sons in Haiti
  • Cov­er­age of the hear­ing by The Human Rights Brief: Human Rights Sit­u­a­tion in the Camps for Inter­nally Dis­placed Per­sons in Haiti
  • Video pre­sented to the IACHR: Unlaw­ful Forced Evic­tions from Haiti’s Dis­place­ment Camps (3.5 min)
  • Tes­ti­mony of Mario Joseph, Man­ag­ing Attor­ney of the Bureau des Avo­cats Internationaux
  • Tes­ti­mony of Jen­nifer Gold­smith, Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity Law Student

• Hear­ing on Eco­nomic, Social, and Cul­tural Rights in Haiti Fol­low­ing the Earth­quake, March 23, 2010
  • • Joint Report Issued on Con­di­tions in Haiti’s Dis­placed Per­sons’ Camps — March 30, 2010
    • Video Footage of Inter­nal Dis­place­ment Camps in Haiti: March 19–21, 2010 — March 23, 2010
    • Brief to the Com­mis­sion in Advance of Hear­ing (Eng­lish) — March 23, 2010
    • Mem­oire Pour La Com­mis­sion (Ver­sion Fran­cais) — March 23, 2010
    • Neglect in the Encamp­ments: Haiti’s Sec­ond Wave Human­i­tar­ian Dis­as­ter (IJDH) — March 23, 2010
    • Snap­shot of Human Rights in Haiti Fol­low­ing Earth­quake Sub­mit­ted to Com­mis­sion — March 23, 2010
    • Tes­ti­mony of Loune Viaud (Part­ners in Health/Zanmi Las­ante) — March 23, 2010
    • Tes­ti­mony of Monika Kalra Varma (RFK Cen­ter for Jus­tice & Human Rights) — March 23, 2010
    • Tes­ti­mony of Mar­garet Sat­terth­waite (NYU — Cen­ter for Human Rights and Global Jus­tice) — March 23, 2010
    • Tes­ti­mony of Mario Joseph en Fran­cais (Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux) — March 23, 2010
    • Tes­ti­mony of Mario Joseph (Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux) — March 23, 2010
    • Rights Groups Tes­tify about Haiti and Human Rights at Inter-American Com­mis­sion (Eng­lish Ver­sion) — March 23, 2010
    • Les organ­i­sa­tions de Droits Humains témoignent au sujet d’Haïti post-séisme par devant la Com­mis­sion inter-Américaine des Droits Humains CIDH (Ver­sion Français) — March 23, 2010
    • Pho­tographs of Haiti After the Earth­quake — Sub­mit­ted to Com­mis­sion — March 23, 2010
    • Groups to Tes­tify on Haiti and Human Rights before Inter-American Com­mis­sion — March 17, 2010
    • Request for Gen­eral Hear­ing (Fran­cais) — Jan­u­ary 22, 2010
    • Request for Gen­eral Hear­ing (Eng­lish) — Jan­u­ary 22, 2010
  • Pho­tographs of the Gen­eral Hear­ing before the IACHR
  • IACHR Statement: IACHR Stresses Duty to Respect Human Rights Dur­ing the Emer­gency in Haiti (press release): Eng­lish Français

Hear­ing on Vio­la­tions of Eco­nomic and Social Human Rights in Haiti, Includ­ing Role of UN Mis­sion and OAS, March 3, 2006

• Pro­vide Jus­tice, Not Char­ity, –South-Florida Sun-Sentinel, July 24, 2006
• Tes­ti­mony of Todd How­land, - Robert F. Kennedy Memo­r­ial Cen­ter for Human Rights
• Writ­ten Tes­ti­mony of Mar­garet Sat­terth­waite, - New York Uni­ver­sity School of Law
• Writ­ten State­ment of Loune Viaud, — Part­ners in Health
• Legal Brief of the Inter­na­tional Human Rights Clinic, - NYU School of Law
• Hear­ing Intro­duc­tion, — Robert F. Kennedy Memo­r­ial Cen­ter for Human Rights
• Press Release: Hear­ing Inves­ti­gat­ing Human Rights Abuses in Haiti and Role of UN Mis­sion and OAS Mem­ber States, — Feb­ru­ary 28, 2006
• Inves­ti­gat­ing Human Rights Abuses in Haiti and Role of UN Mis­sion and Mem­ber States, Todd How­land, Max­ims News
• OAS Rights Com­mis­sion Hears Tes­ti­mony About Sit­u­a­tion in Haiti,-Haiti-Info — March 3, 2006

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