France demanded crippling payments. Now Haiti has a legitimate claim for slavery reparations | Opinion

• Post published:March 28, 2023
• Post category:Accountability

BAI Managing Attorney Mario Joseph, IJDH Executive Director Brian Concannon, and IJDH Board Member Irwin Stotzky of the University of Miami School of Law pen an op-ed in the Miami…

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He was mayor of a town in Haiti. Now he has to pay his victims $15M, U.S. court rules

• Post published:March 21, 2023
• Post category:Access to Justice

A jury in Boston awarded $15.5 million to victims of a series of brutal attacks against political opponents by the former mayor of Les Irois, Haiti, Jean Morose Viliena, who…

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Trudeau to deploy navy vessels to Haiti for intelligence gathering

• Post published:February 16, 2023
• Post category:Projects

BAI's letter to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and IJDH's Brian Concannon are featured in CTV News. "Mario Joseph, the managing attorney of the Bureau des avocats internationaux based in Port-au-Prince,…

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Enough!: IJDH’s Brian Concannon in The Security Times

• Post published:February 15, 2023
• Post category:Governance & Human Rights/Rule of Law

The Security Times, the official paper of the annual Munich Security Conference, asked IJDH's Brian Concannon to discuss Haiti's crises in light of anticipated discussions at its February 2023 conference…

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The Neoliberal Round Breaking Interview with Brian Concannon on Haitian Justice

• Post published:February 10, 2023
• Post category:Projects

IJDH's Brian Concannon joins The Neoliberal Round for an interview on Haiti's democracy, foreign intervention in Haiti, the role of the Caribbean, and more. Watch the interview now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBgsYrc8ys

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Haiti’s gang-fueled chaos targets women for sexual violence, domestic abuse | Guest Opinion

• Post published:January 27, 2023
• Post category:Governance & Human Rights/Women and Child Rights

A Miami Herald opinion piece by Sharma Aurélien of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA) features BAI, IJDH, and allies' 2022 complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the…

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