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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 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"--
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Born in Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960's and 1970's as the US's leading African American civil rights attorney. In this biography, Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier connect the details of Chambers's life to the wider struggle to secure racial equality through the development of modern civil rights law.
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Ce livre n’est ni une autobiographie proprement dite, ni un ouvrage de droit.Il raconte le cheminement qui a conduit Luc Walleyn à s’engager pour les droits humains, à lutter contre l’impunité de ceux qui les piétinent, à prendre la défense de victimes de génocide, d’esclavage et d’autres crimes contre l’humanité. Ce chemin fut marqué par des affaires judiciaires retentissantes, dont certaines ont trouvé une place dans l’histoire de la Belgique et d’autres pays.Pendant cinquante ans, l’auteur s’est présenté devant des juges belges, étrangers et internationaux pour tenter, avec un succès variable, d’empêcher ou de faire cesser les atteintes aux droits fondamentaux, d’en réparer en partie les dommages ou de faire poursuivre et punir les responsables.Luc Walleyn est aussi un précurseur de la justice transitionnelle. Comment reconstruire un tissu social lorsque l’on est susceptible de rencontrer, à chaque coin de rue, l’assassin de son père, le bourreau de ses enfants ? Comment concilier justice et avenir, réparation et pardon ?L’ouvrage consiste en un partage de cette expérience et offre une voix aux gens qu’il a défendus et dont les droits à la liberté et la dignité ont été bafoués. Il doit se lire comme un espoir que représentent l’engagement et le respect absolu des droits humains.
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