Human Rights-Based Approach to Earthquake Response
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Donor Conference
Human-Rights Based Approach
- Groups Caution Secretary Clinton on Private Military Contractors in Haiti Relief Efforts — March 30, 2010
- Groups Call for Respect for Human Rights, Accountability at Haiti Donors’ Conference — March 18, 2010
- Letter: NGOs Urge that Human Rights Drive Haiti Aid Efforts (ENGLISH) — March 18, 2010
- Groups Call on Donors to Advance Human Rights in Rebuilding Haiti, February 17, 2010
Donor Conference News
- International Donors Conference at the UN: For $10 Billion of Promises, Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty — April 20, 2010
- Haitian NGOs Decry Total Exclusion from Donors’ Conferences on Haitian Reconstruction — March 18, 2010
- The United States and United Nations Announce the Haiti Donors’ Conference — March 4, 2010
- Donor Conference Date Set for March 31, 2010 — February 19, 2010
- Donor Pledges — February 16, 2010
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
General Hearing Before the IACHR on ESC Rights Following the Earthquake
- 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 — 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 Statements
- IACHR Stresses Duty to Respect Human Rights During the Emergency in Haiti (press release)
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Statements on Rights-Based Approach to International Assistance
- Donor Principles, the Haiti Reconstruction Fund, and Interim Haiti Recovery Commission — July 27, 2010
- Camp-by-Camp Needs Analysis — May 3, 2010
- From Disaster Aid to Solidarity: Best Practices in Meeting the Needs of Haiti’s Earthquake Survivors — April 27, 2010
- Groups Issue Letter to Key Congressional Staffers Urging a More Flexible Approach to Food Aid — April 12, 2010
- Haiti: Towards and Beyond the Donors’ Conference — April 8, 2010
- Haitian Led Reconstruction & Development — March 29, 2010
- Spotlight On: Haiti, Forced Migration Review — March 12, 2010
- Refugees International, Haiti: From the Ground Up (PDF) — March 2, 2010
- Mennonite Central Committee, Key Issues for a Just Response in Haiti — February 17, 2010
- Haiti’s Recovery Starts With Human Rights: Haiti needs real change, not promises of aid that go unfulfilled. — January 31, 2010
- Amnesty International, Haiti: Human rights must be at the core of relief efforts and the reconstruction of Haiti — January 25, 2010
- Rights Groups Urge Respect for Human Rights in Delivering Aid to Haiti, January 14, 2010
- Statement on Rights Based Approach (English); Version Français; Versión en español
- Haiti: Experts Urge Sea Change in “Culture of Aid”, Inter Press Service, March 4, 2010
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Human Rights Council Special Session
- Report of the HRC on its Thirteenth Special Session (Jan. 27–28, 2010) (Advaced Unedited Version) — February 2, 2010
- CRC Statement to the Human Rights Council — January 27, 2010
- Caritas International Statement to the Human Rights Council — January 27, 2010
- Haitian recovery must include strengthening of human rights – top UN official — January 27, 2010
- Amnesty International Statement to the Human Rights Council — January 27, 2010
- Rights Groups Letter to the HRC — January 26, 2010
- Human Rights Council to Hold Special Session on Support to Recovery Process in Haiti: A Human Rights Approach (press release) — January 25, 2010
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U.S. Congress
- U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants — March 31, 2010
- Commentary: Haiti Reconfigured — March 4, 2010
- NGO Sign-on Letter to Congress: Emergency Supplemental Aid to Haiti — February 19, 2010
- NGOs Issue Letter re: Emergency Supplemental Aid to Haiti — February 19, 2010
- AJWS Calls on Congress to Bring Haitian Voices into Reconstruction Talks — February 4, 2010
- Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. Hearing on Haiti Relief — January 29, 2010
Links
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
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