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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
  • Press Release
  • Rec­om­men­da­tions for Donor Con­fer­ence (Eng­lish) (PDF); Ver­sion Francais

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)
  • Eng­lish
  • Français

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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
  • Press Release (Eng­lish — PDF); Ver­sion Français; Ver­sión en español
  • 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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