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Overview

The Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work (LERN) — led by the U.S.-based Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH), and the Haiti-based pub­lic inter­est law firm, the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux - is a national net­work of lawyers in the U.S. work­ing with Hait­ian lawyers to imple­ment a legal response to the earth­quake in Haiti. LERN employs a human rights-based approach to advo­cate for the vic­tims of the earth­quakes and reduce Haiti’s vul­ner­a­bil­ity to future nat­ural, polit­i­cal and eco­nomic stresses. LERN projects include fight­ing for safe hous­ing, long-term, effec­tive inter­na­tional assis­tance to Haiti, and for immi­gra­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties in the

U.S. LERN will also develop replic­a­ble mod­els for inter­na­tional legal responses to large-scale nat­ural disasters.

LERN was launched on Jan­u­ary 17, 2010. Within the first two weeks, over 250 lawyers, law pro­fes­sors and law stu­dents joined the network.

LERN will pro­vide over­all coor­di­na­tion of projects through a list­serve and an inter­ac­tive web­page. Indi­vid­ual projects will be coor­di­nated through project lead­ers, who will be lead­ing experts in the rel­e­vant field.

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Projects

• Aid: Human-Rights Based Approach to Earth­quake Response
• Gen­der Vio­lence: Haiti Rape Account­abil­ity and Pre­ven­tion Project (RAPP)
• Hous­ing: Hous­ing and Evic­tions Advo­cacy Project (HEAP)
• Immi­gra­tion: Immi­gra­tion Oppor­tu­ni­ties in the U.S.
  • Hait­ian Immi­gra­tion Pro Bono Project
  • Tem­po­rary Pro­tected Sta­tus for Haitians in the U.S.
  • Human­i­tar­ian Parole and Family-Based Visa Petitions
  • Haiti Asy­lum Infor­ma­tion Project
• Know Your Rights Cam­paign: Knowl­edge of human rights is an impor­tant part of the strug­gle. Please cir­cu­late this sum­mary of the rights of inter­nally dis­placed peo­ple to Haitians everywhere.
  • Rights of IDP: (Eng­lish — microsoft word); (Eng­lish — pdf)
  • Dwa IDP: (Kreyol — Microsoft Word); (Kreyol — pdf)
  • Radio Address re: Rights of IDP/Espot sou Dwa Moun: (Kreyol — mp3)

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Join the Network

To join LERN and learn more about our work, please visit our google group page here. For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact IJDH’s Direc­tor, Brian Con­can­non at Brian@ijdh.org.

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Reports

• Rebuild­ing Haiti: Mak­ing Aid Work Bet­ter for the Hait­ian Peo­ple — July 26, 2010
• Chal­lenges Fac­ing Haiti’s Jus­tice Sec­tor: Pre­pared for Con­gres­sional Brief­ing — July 13, 2010
• Haiti Cherie/My Dear Haiti (TransAfrica Forum) — July 12, 2010
• Chil­dren of Haiti: Mile­stones and Look­ing For­ward at Six Months (UNICEF) — July 2, 2010
• Haiti at a Cross­roads (U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on For­eign Rela­tions) — June 22, 2010
• Women in Haiti after the Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 Earth­quake (Huairou Com­mis­sion) — June 19, 2010
• Human Rights Coun­cil dis­cusses human rights sit­u­a­tion in Haiti (UN) — June 16, 2010
• RNDDH sounds the alarm on the sit­u­a­tion of minors in con­flict with the Law. — June 11, 2010
• The gen­eral sit­u­a­tion of the coun­try four months after the earth­quake of Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 (RNDDH) — May 12, 2010
• Gen­der Shadow Report: Ensur­ing Hait­ian Women’s Par­tic­i­pa­tion and Lead­er­ship in All Stages of National Relief and Recon­struc­tion — April 5, 2010
• (Amnesty Inter­na­tional) Haiti After the Earth­quake: Ini­tial Mis­sion Find­ings — March 25, 2010
• Neglect in the Encamp­ments: Haiti’s Sec­ond Wave Human­i­tar­ian Dis­as­ter — March 23, 2010
• (INURED) Voices from the Shanties: A Post-Earthquake Rapid Assess­ment of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince — March 1, 2010

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Links

• Aid­Data: Infor­ma­tion on how devel­op­ment funds are spent.
• Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion: Haiti Earth­quake Legal Resources
• Aris­tide Foun­da­tion for Democ­racy: Grass­roots Response to the Earthquake
• Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research: Haiti Relief and Recon­struc­tion Watch — Infor­ma­tion on the Earth­quake Response
• GALA Haiti Relief Infor­ma­tion: Cen­tral­ized loca­tion for mem­bers of the trans­la­tion and inter­pre­ta­tion industry
• Gov­ern­ment of Haiti
  Post Dis­as­ter Needs Ass­es­ment
  Action Plan for National Recov­ery and Devel­op­ment of Haiti

• Haiti Account­abil­ity Project: Pro­mote account­abil­ity among aid projects in Haiti.
• Haiti Food Secu­rity Emer­gency Tool: inter­ac­tive mapping
• Haiti Recon­struc­tion Fund: A fund for recov­ery, recon­struc­tion, and devel­op­ment of Haiti. Part­ner­ship between the Gov­ern­ment of Haiti and the inter­na­tional community.
• Haiti Recon­struc­tion Plat­form: Infor­ma­tion from the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment, includ­ing track­ing of pledged aid and the Post Dis­as­ter Needs Assess­ment (PDNA)
• Haiti Response Coali­tion: Orga­ni­za­tions Work­ing for a Just Earth­quake Response and a Sus­tain­able Future for Haiti
• Inde­pen­dent Sec­tor: Non-profit foun­da­tions and gov­ern­ment agen­cies that have exper­tise and expe­ri­ence in inter­na­tional dis­as­ter relief and are already work­ing in Haiti.
• Inter Agency Work­ing Group on Repro­duc­tive Health in Cri­sis Sit­u­a­tions: Repro­duc­tive Health-Related Resources for the Haiti Earth­quake Response
• Kaiser Fam­ily Foun­da­tion: Com­pre­hen­sive List of Gov­ern­ment Reports on the U.S. Response to the Earth­quake in Haiti
• New York Immi­gra­tion Coali­tion: List of Resources about TPS for Haitians
• OneRe­sponse: Resources for Coor­di­nat­ing Dis­as­ter Relief Efforts
• Pre­ven­tion Web: Resources for Dis­as­ter Prevention
• ProBono.net: Haiti TPS and Other Resources for Lawyers
• Relief Over­sight: Ini­tia­tive of the Dis­as­ter Account­abil­ity Project
• ReliefWeb: Infor­ma­tion for Global Human­i­tar­ian Relief Efforts
• Repro­duc­tive Health Response in Con­flict Con­sor­tium: Infor­ma­tion on Repro­duc­tive Health Rights in Cri­sis Situations
• Research for Haiti: Resources regard­ing pub­lic man­age­ment, pol­icy analy­sis, eval­u­a­tion and related research
• Ushahidi: Cit­i­zen gen­er­ated dis­as­ter mapping.

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