Latest article on the upcoming TPS trial featuring Steve Forester, IJDH's Immigration Policy Coordinator. Federal trial begins Monday to protect more than 50,000 immigrants and their families from being forcibly separated by…
Please note that LGB asylum differs from asylum for trans people. Successful trans asylum cases are few and rely not on gender identity as much as perceived sexual orientation. Indeed,…
In December 2016, after six years of trying to avoid blame for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti in 2010, the United Nations apologized for its role and announced…
Haiti hosts a peacekeeping mission with one of the largest numbers of reported sexual exploitation and abuse. The UN Secretary-General is urging MINUSTAH to appoint a victims' rights advocate to address the…
The death of former Haitian President René Préval comes as a shock to many. The political figure served two presidential terms, from 1996-2001 and 2006-2011, and he was the incumbent…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began detaining non-criminal Haitians who presented themselves at Mexico-US border crossings on September 22, 2016 and began twice-weekly deportations to Haiti of these detainees…