Posts Tagged ‘Bureau des Avocats Internationaux’

Two-year fellowship in Haiti

April 1, 2015

This Haitian NGO  announces a two-year fellowship for an emerging lawyer committed to pursuing a career in public interest law, especially interested in candidates who know Haiti and speak Haitian Creole and/or French. The announcement is online.
 They also offer a one-year fellowship (unpaid) for a lawyer passionate about social justice and seeking to participate in their ground-breaking cholera case. That announcement is also online here.
As the deadline is officially passed, hurry, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the position is open until filled
Contact: Ruth Vaughan (ruth@ijdh.org).

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Webinar on Haiti with Author Fran Quigley and Mario Joseph on 12 February

February 6, 2015
Mario Joseph, Final Nominee MEA 2013, will be able to join the webinar, si Dye vle. on Thursday, 12 February at 8pm EST with author Fran Quigley and IJDH Director Brian Concannon. Fran published How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign in September 2014. The book profiles Brian, BAI’s Managing Attorney Mario Joseph, and many other human rights defenders in their fight for justice in Haiti.
 
 
 

Webinar with Author Fran Quigley — by IJDH Boston.

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Human Rights Defender Daniel Dorsainvil and wife killed in Haiti – suspicious to say the least

February 19, 2014

In a recent post I referred to the worsening climate for Human Rights Defenders in Haiti (https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/haiti-judicial-harassment-against-human-rights-lawyers-continues/)  and now we learn of the killing of one of the leading HRDs, Daniel Dorsainvil (or Dorsinvil) and his wife in the streets of Porte-au-Prince:

haiti_murder (Photo Credit: Facebook/Girldy Lareche Dorsinvil and Facebook/Daniel Dorsinvil)

 

 

Nicole Phillips in RYOT News of 18 February reports that on Saturday 8 February 2014, Daniel Dorsainvil and his wife Girldy Lareche were shot and killed by an unidentified man who fled the scene on a motorcycle.  The double homicide left three children without their parents, Read the rest of this entry »

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MEA Nominee Mario Joseph to address prestigious law school of Indiana

May 3, 2013

Human rights lawyer Mario Joseph, MEA Nominee 2013, will give the commencement address at the IU McKinney School of Law on Saturday 11 May in Indianapolis.

Mario Joseph Final Nominee MEA 2013

Mario Joseph, Haiti – Final Nominee MEA 2013

The announcement by the University describes him as “A finalist for one of the world’s most prestigious human rights awards“, who has been called “Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer” by The New York Times.

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