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IJDH Executive Director Brian Concannon, in recent media appearances on Twazyèm Mitan on VOA Kreyòl, Konbit Lakay on WPFW89.3, and WBAI New York, spoke on recent extraditions of accused gang members from Haiti to the US, the recent renewal of the UN Haiti mission's mandate, Haiti's political crisis, and more.
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Mario Joseph of the BAI and Beatrice Lindstrom of Harvard Law School and IJDH explain what’s next with Haiti’s restitution claim against France following the New York Times’ recent exposé. “But unjust foreign intervention in Haiti did not stop in 1823 – it continues today,” they write. “For Haiti to ever see justice for the past and peace into the future, countries like the United States and France must start by changing how it treats Haiti today.”
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IJDH’s latest update on the current status of human rights and rule of law in Haiti, covering key developments from December 2021 through May 2022, is out now. Read about Haiti’s continuing governance, security, economic and humanitarian crises and their drivers, including foreign interference and failures by the international community to respect Haitians' human rights.
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Join IJDH, Haiti Response Coalition, and allies for a Haiti Advocacy Campaign to call on the US government to stop supporting Haiti’s repressive and corrupt government, so that a Haitian-led solution to the crisis can emerge.
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IJDH Senior Staff Attorney Alexandra Filippova writes on the Biden administration’s new Global Fragility Act (GFA) aimed at addressing fragility in Haiti and elsewhere. “[W]hether the GFA will result in something better will depend on whether the U.S. government is serious about its stated GFA intentions and actually lets Haitians control their own governance.”
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In an article entitled "Starved for Justice: International Complicity in Systematic Violations of the Right to Food in Haiti," just published in Columbia Human Rights Law Review, IJDH's Sandra Wisner examines the impact of unaccountable foreign aid on Haiti’s food crisis and Haitians’ human rights.

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The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti is a U.S.-based human rights non-profit organization. Established in 2004, it is a partnership of human rights advocates in Haiti and the U.S., dedicated to tackling the root causes of injustice that impacts basic human rights in Haiti.