Blogs and Opinion Pieces
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/
Norman Girvan - Caribbean Political Economy
http://www.normangirvan.info/
Guy-Uriel Charles, "Stop Calling Quake Victims 'Looters'" CNN Opinion, January 21, 2010. Available at http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/21/Charles.haiti.earthquake.looting.race/index.html.
Mark Danner, "To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature," The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2010. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22danner.html?emc-eta1
Cheryl Wade on Media Images ad Coverage in Haiti - Corporate Justice Blog
http://corporatejusticeblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/media-coverage-of-black-victims-of.html
Papers
Center for Economic and Policy Research http://www.cepr.net/
U.S. Concerns could cost many Lives in Haiti - Mark Weisbrot
Orignally published in the The Guardian Unlimited, January 20, 2010
Our Bodies are still Trembling: Haitian Women's Fight Against Rape
http://ijdh.org/archives/13361
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Race, Class, and Katrina: Human Rights and (Un)Natural Disaster, Lewis, Hope. (August 10, 2009. Environmental Justice in the New Millennium: Global Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights, Palgrave MacMillan Publishing, 2009; Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 38-2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract-1446810
Right to Water in Haiti
(French) Wòch nan Soley: le déni du droit à l’eau en Haïti
by Margaret Satterthwaite et al:
http://www.chrgj.org/projects/docs/righttowaterfrench.pdf
Water rights and justice in Haiti.
Unstable Foundations: Impact of NGO's on Human Rights for Port -au - Prince's Internally Displaced People
http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Report-unstable-foundations-final-2.pdf
by Mark Schuller, York College, CUNY & Faculte d'`Ethnologie, Universite d'Etat d'Haiti
We Have Been Forgotten: Conditions in Haiti's Displacement Camps Eight Months After the Earthquake
http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IDP-Report-09.23.10-compressed.pdf
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED)
A post‐earthquake assessment of higher education institutions in the Port‐au‐Prince metropolitan area
http://www.inured.org/resource/resmgr/docs/the_challenge_for_haitian_hi.pdf
Voices From the Shanties
http://www.inured.org/resource/resmgr/docs/voices_from_the_shanties_inu.pdf
See also Chronicle of Higher Education Article:
Haiti Considers How to Rebuild an Entire Higher-Education System
by Marion Lloyd
http://chronicle.com/article/Haiti-Considers-How-to-Rebuild/64827/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Lack of access to clean water in Haiti has devastating health consequences and constitutes a clear violation of Haitians’ right to water according to both domestic and international legal obligations, claims a new report released (in 2008) by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), Partners In Health (PIH), the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center (RFK Center), and Zanmi Lasante.
by Mark Schuller, York College CUNY, and Faculte d'Ethnologie, Universite d'Etat d'Haiti
This report follows six weeks of research during the summer of 2010. With a team of eight students and a colleague at the Faculté d’Ethnologie, Université d’État d’Haïti, this study covers over 100 camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), a random sample of one in eight of the 861 in the metropolitan area. (Executive Summary)
In April 2011, ground was officially broken at the site of the future State University of Haiti Digital Library. Once completed, the Digital Library will provide the Port-au-Prince university community with access to online courses, reviews, periodicals and other resources.
Contact us with comments and to list events and activities or to request donations or support for Haitian relief efforts:
Paula Johnson
College of Law
Linda Carty
African American Studies, Arts & Sciences
Jean Jonassaint
Languages, Literature, & Linguistics
Bonnie Ryan
Syracuse University Library
Law Review Sources:
Bernier, Barbara, Sugar Cane Slavery in the Americas-Bateyes and Civil Rights in the 21st Century, 9 New England School of Law Journal of Int'l and Comparative Law 17 (2003)
Bernier, Barbara, Economic Development in Ravaged Haiti: Is Democracy Really the Answer?" 11 Dickinson Journal of International Law 49 (1992)
Bernier, Barbara, Democratization and Economic Development in Haiti: A Review of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, 27 The Int'l Lawyer Summer 455 (1993)
Lewis, Hope, Human Rights and Natural Disaster: The Indian Ocean Tsunami. Human Rights, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 12-16, Fall 2006. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=996668
Woods, Jeanne M. and Lewis, Hope, Statement of Jeanne M. Woods and Hope Lewis to the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (October 27, 2005). Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 1330582. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract-1330582
Petition to Eliminate Haiti's Debt:
Haiti owes $1billion to the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and other creditors. The goal of this petition is to help Haiti rebuild by cancelling these debts. The petition will be delivered to Finance ministers, the IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and bilateral creditors. To sign on, go to http://one.org/international/actnow/haiti/index.html?rc=haiticonfemail.
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti that destroyed government buildings and archives as well as entire communities, the LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) created the The Haiti Legal Patrimony project.
The selected documents, ranging from the 1801 declaration of independence and significant constitutional items to early 20th-century statutes and government reports, will ultimately number between 700 and 750 titles in 900 volumes.