The Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas Secretary US Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C., 20528 Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Since November 2022, when the United Nations High Commissioner for...
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The Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas Secretary US Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C., 20528 Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Since November 2022, when the United Nations High Commissioner for...
Haiti + 1 more
September 18, 2023 Dear Members of Congress: As organizations from the U.S. and Haiti, we write to ask you to support efforts by local Haitian farmers to respond to unprecedented hunger in their...
Contact: Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq., IJDH Director, brian@ijdh.org, +1-617-652-0876 (English, French, Kreyol) Advocates regret missed opportunity to stand up for justice (BOSTON, March 10, 2014)—The...
October 9, 2013, New York— Attorneys from the human rights groups Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and civil rights law firm Kurzban,...
Contacts: Mario Joseph, Av., Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, (in Haiti), mario@ijdh.org, +509-3701-9878 (French, Creole, English) Maria-Elena Kolovos, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (in Haiti),...
Contacts: Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq., Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, brian@ijdh.org, +1–541-263‑0029, (anglais, français, créole) Mario Joseph, Av., Bureau des Avocats...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011, New York, Port-au-Prince — On Thursday, November 3, 2011, over 5,000 Haitians, all victims of cholera or relatives of victims, submitted claims to the United Nations (UN)...
Brian Concannon Jr., Esq., Director, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Brian@ijdh.org, (541) 263-0029 (U.S.) Nicole Phillips, Esq., IJDH Staff Attorney, Institue for Justice and Democracy...
(Port-au-Prince, August 18, 2011)— On the eve of the hundredth day of President Michel Martelly’s presidency, a survey conducted in six displacement camps scheduled to close under his 100-day plan...
Haitian Government Uses Economic Coercion to Illegally Evict Families Displaced by the Earthquake Port-au-Prince, July 21, 2011 - The Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and the Bureau...
Amid Warning Signs in New Presidency, Rights Groups Intensify Efforts to Enforce Government Compliance, Protect Victims with New Request June 16, 2011, Washington D.C. – Today, the Center for...
Contact: Mario Joseph, Av., Managing Attorney, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, mario@ijdh.org, +509-3701-9879/ +509-3554-4284 (in Port-au-Prince) (French) Jeena Shah, Esq., Legal Fellow, Bureau...
Contact: Brian Concannon Jr., Esq., Director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti Brian@ijdh.org, 541 263 0029 (U.S. cell), +509 3419 0888 (Port au Prince) Nicole Phillips, Esq., Staff...
Contact: Regine Theodat, Esq., regine.theodat@gmail.com, +509 3 885-7413 (Port au Prince, Haiti) Thomas Griffin, Esq., griffin@msgimmigration.com, (215) 925-4435 (Philadelphia, PA) Nicole Phillips,...
CONTACT: Stephanie K=FCng, MADRE (212) 627-0444, skung@madre.org; Annie Gell, BAI Port-au-Prince, Haiti +509-3610-2882, annie@ijdh.org New Report on Sexual Violence in Haiti One Year After the...
Contact: Stephanie Küng, MADRE (212) 627-0444, skung@madre.org; Jen Nessel, Center for Constitutional Rights, (212) 614-6449, jnessel@ccrjustice.org; Annie Gell, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux,...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 23, 2010 The actions of an illegitimate electoral council supported by international actors have set Haiti on course for undemocratic elections which may lead to...
Human rights investigation finds desperate conditions in Haiti's tent cities September 20, 2010; Boston, MA - Eight months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, more than 1.3 million Haitians...
July 27, 2010; Port-au-Prince, Haiti - More than six months after Port-au-Prince was leveled by the January 12 earthquake, hundreds of thousands of displaced women and girls live in fear of rape in...
June 30, 2010 I. Introduction On June 28, 2010, Haitian President Renée Préval announced Parliamentary and Presidential elections for November 28, 2010, and issued a decree mandating that the...