U.S. Should Let Haiti Reclaim its Democracy
An update from IJDH Executive Director Brian Concannon Haiti’s deepening crisis is a predictable consequence of years of U.S. support for undemocratic regimes as they dismantled Haiti’s democracy. With…
Fighting for Freedom from Montgomery to Port-au-Prince
Reflections from IJDH Staff Attorney Kristina Fried Two weeks ago, IJDH and BAI staff visited the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama thanks to the generosity of one of our long-time…
“There Are Others With Less”
A Letter from IJDH Executive Director Brian Concannon Like many people in these challenging times, I encounter reasons for discouragement every day. But then I have conversations like a recent…
Why Ebola sex abuse victims may never find justice
The New Humanitarian features BAI and IJDH's UN peacekeeper paternity cases, which demonstrate the lack of accountability, justice, and reparations facing survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel:…
He was mayor of a town in Haiti. Now he has to pay his victims $15M, U.S. court rules
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…
Trudeau to deploy navy vessels to Haiti for intelligence gathering
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,…