How human rights can build Haiti : activists, lawyers, and the grassroots campaign /

How human rights can build Haiti : activists, lawyers, and the grassroots campaign /

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Author / Creator:	Quigley, Fran, 1962-
Imprint:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Human rights -- Haiti. Human rights workers -- Haiti. Civil rights lawyers -- Haiti. Civil rights lawyers. Human rights. Human rights workers. Haiti.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13417779

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ISBN:	9780826519955 0826519954 1322006717 9781322006710 9780826519931 0826519938
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Quigley, Fran. How Human Rights Can Build Haiti. Vanderbilt University Press 2014 1322006717

Table of Contents:

"Judge Him" : Pursuing Duvalier
Kolera and the United Nations
The Rule of Law, Political Will, and Haiti
The Raboteau Trial
How Not to Save a Country : Lost Opportunities in the Post-Earthquake Response
Beyond the Courtroom
The Donkey and the Horse : The Dysfunctional Haiti-U.S. Relationship
Creating Victory for the People.