IJDH Executive Director Franciscka Lucien and IJDH Senior Staff Attorney Alexandra Filippova speak with Foreign Policy on the rising political tensions over President Moïse’s term and questions of U.S. foreign policy.

“‘We want to leave room for hope that this approach that the new administration has articulated for its foreign policy will translate to policy towards Haiti that really prioritizes human rights and rule of law,’ said Franciscka Lucien, the executive director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy group.”

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‘The breadth of commentators … who [represent] some of the organizations best positioned to comment on Haiti’s laws … is quite enormous,’ said Alexandra Filippova, a senior staff attorney at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.”

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