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How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
Fran Quigley
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Description for How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
Hardcover. The story of a team of human rights advocates who work to bring justice to the poor and reverse the legacy of lawlessness and suffering in Haiti Num Pages: 223 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; GTB; HBJK; JPS; JPVH; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 190 x 27. Weight in Grams: 728.
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 organise 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.
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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 organise 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826519931
SKU
V9780826519931
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Fran Quigley
Fran Quigley is a clinical professor at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law, where he directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic. He is author of Walking Together, Walking Far.
Reviews for How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
An important book for policy makers, lawyers, students, aid workers, concerned citizens-anyone who cares about building a just, stable, and sustainable Haiti. It provides a proven roadmap for tackling Haiti's persistent problems, and a model for Haitians and non-Haitians to work together for the benefit of all." - Congresswoman Maxine Waters, representative from California.