Author: Fran Quigley
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 082650356X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying campaigns across the globe. They are making historic claims and achieving real success as they tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic, post-earthquake housing and rape crises, and the Jean-Claude Duvalier prosecution, among other human rights emergencies in Haiti. The only way to transform Haiti's dismal human rights legacy is through a bottom-up social movement, supported by local and international challenges to the status quo. That recipe for reform mirrors the strategy followed by Mario Joseph, Brian Concannon, and their clients and colleagues profiled in this book. Together, Joseph, Concannon, and their allies represent Haiti's best hope to escape the cycle of disaster, corruption, and violence that has characterized the country's two-hundred-year history. At the same time, their efforts are creating a template for a new and more effective human rights-focused strategy to turn around failed states and end global poverty.
How Human Rights Can Build Haiti
Author: Fran Quigley
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 082650356X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying campaigns across the globe. They are making historic claims and achieving real success as they tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic, post-earthquake housing and rape crises, and the Jean-Claude Duvalier prosecution, among other human rights emergencies in Haiti. The only way to transform Haiti's dismal human rights legacy is through a bottom-up social movement, supported by local and international challenges to the status quo. That recipe for reform mirrors the strategy followed by Mario Joseph, Brian Concannon, and their clients and colleagues profiled in this book. Together, Joseph, Concannon, and their allies represent Haiti's best hope to escape the cycle of disaster, corruption, and violence that has characterized the country's two-hundred-year history. At the same time, their efforts are creating a template for a new and more effective human rights-focused strategy to turn around failed states and end global poverty.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 082650356X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying campaigns across the globe. They are making historic claims and achieving real success as they tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic, post-earthquake housing and rape crises, and the Jean-Claude Duvalier prosecution, among other human rights emergencies in Haiti. The only way to transform Haiti's dismal human rights legacy is through a bottom-up social movement, supported by local and international challenges to the status quo. That recipe for reform mirrors the strategy followed by Mario Joseph, Brian Concannon, and their clients and colleagues profiled in this book. Together, Joseph, Concannon, and their allies represent Haiti's best hope to escape the cycle of disaster, corruption, and violence that has characterized the country's two-hundred-year history. At the same time, their efforts are creating a template for a new and more effective human rights-focused strategy to turn around failed states and end global poverty.
Return to the Darkest Days
Author: Anne Fuller
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320544
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320544
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reverting to Despotism
Author: Americas Watch Staff
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692555
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692555
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The More Things Change--
Author:
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692142
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
V. ATTACKS ON THE PRESS
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692142
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
V. ATTACKS ON THE PRESS
Report on the Situation Regarding Human Rights in Haiti
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Democratic Insecurities
Author: Erica Caple James
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520947916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520947916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.
In the Army's Hands
Author: Anne Fuller
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692807
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9780929692807
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Human Rights in Haiti
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description