Health and Human Rights in Pris­ons Project (HHRPP)

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Prison Sys­tem and Con­di­tions

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Overview

The Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH), the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI), Part­ners in Health (PIH) and Zanmi Las­ante (ZL), launched the Health and Human Rights in Pris­ons Project (HHRPP) to improve con­di­tions in Haiti’s noto­ri­ously mis­er­able prisons.

The HHRPP com­bines the orga­ni­za­tions’ rec­og­nized exper­tise in law and health­care, in both deliv­ery of ser­vices and advo­cacy, to holis­ti­cally address the vio­la­tions of pris­on­ers’ civil, polit­i­cal, social and eco­nomic human rights.

The project addresses pro­longed pre­trial deten­tion and hor­rific prison con­di­tions by sys­tem­atiz­ing the deliv­ery of health and legal ser­vices to indi­vid­ual pris­on­ers and advo­cat­ing for broader, sys­temic reforms. In the course of treat­ing pris­on­ers, ZL health care work­ers often hear of polit­i­cal and civil rights vio­la­tions that the BAI can address. As BAI legal rep­re­sen­ta­tives dis­cuss pris­on­ers’ legal sit­u­a­tions, they often are the first to uncover ill­nesses and the need for treat­ment or to dis­cover that med­ical treat­ment has been interrupted.

Together we are devel­op­ing a model, inte­grated human rights approach to pris­ons that ensures that pris­on­ers receive the med­i­cine and treat­ment they need to remain healthy and the legal ser­vices they need to ensure that their cases are han­dled promptly and justly.

Col­lab­o­ra­tors

• Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI)
• The Francois-Xavier Bag­noud (FXB) Cen­ter for Health and Human Rights, Har­vard School of Pub­lic Health
• New Media Advo­cacy Project (N-Map)
• Part­ners in Health/Zanmi Las­ante (PIH/ZL)

About the HHRPP

• HHRPP Project Description
• HHRPP Pow­er­Point Presentation
• Health and Human Rights in Haiti Presentation
• Inter-American Court for Human Rights’ judg­ment in Nep­tune v. Haiti

Data Reports

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News Arti­cles

• Rau­cous Trial Is a Test of Haiti’s Legal Sys­tem (New York Times) — Octo­ber 31, 2011
• A Test for Haiti’s Pris­ons as Trial Opens in 2010 Killing of Inmates (Free Speech Radio News) — Octo­ber 18, 2011
• Lis­ten to Iringo Hock­ley give an update on prison con­di­tions and HHRPP suc­cess sto­ries — August 2, 2011
• Hait­ian pris­ons get over­haul as rest of recon­struc­tion effort lags (The Wash­ing­ton Post, The Asso­ci­ated Press) — July 22, 2011
• Report Assails Haiti Offi­cers in Prison Killings — Octo­ber 21, 2010
• Haiti: Jacmel civil­ian prison rebuilt — Octo­ber 7, 2010
• Haiti Inves­ti­gates Prison Shoot­ings (New York Times) — July 27, 2010
• Haiti’s Incar­cer­ated Minors: My Friends, the Chil­dren Ask for Free­dom — July 23, 2010
• UN warn­ing on AIDS in pris­ons — July 23, 2010
• No jus­tice for Haiti’s women inmates — July 4, 2010
• Haiti: detainees – invis­i­ble vic­tims of the human­i­tar­ian cri­sis — June 25, 2010
• Group says chil­dren suf­fer in Haiti jails — June 20, 2010
• Haiti’s jails are ‘cruel, inhu­man and degrad­ing’: UN expert — June 16, 2010
• Chil­dren lan­guish in Haiti’s jails: rights group — June 14, 2010
• U.S. Moves to Block Some Fund­ing for Haiti — June 10, 2010
• Panel on Hait­ian Prison Deaths — May 26, 2010
• Haiti prison in dire straits — May 25, 2010
• The U.N. Inves­ti­gat­ing Pris­oner Shoot­ings Dur­ing Haiti Earth­quake — May 24, 2010
• UN to inves­ti­gate shoot­ings at prison after Haiti quake — May 24, 2010
• UN probes Haiti jail riot deaths — May 23, 2010
• Escape Attempt Led to Killings of Unarmed Inmates — May 22, 2010

Prison Sys­tem and Conditions

• Une nou­velle fatal­ité à la prison civile de Hinche: French (BAI) — March 31, 2011
• Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review: Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Report (Alter­na­tive Chance, Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tional Rights, Con­fer­ence des uni­ver­si­taires pour la defense des droits et de la lib­erte, LAMP for Haiti Foun­da­tion) — March 24, 2011
• Panos: TB/SIDA — Decem­ber 1, 2008
• ICG Brief — May 1, 2007
• ICG Brief — Jan­u­ary 1, 2007
• OAS Report — Jan­u­ary 1, 2005
• Vera Report — Jan­u­ary 1, 2002

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