Paloma Institute contributes to Haiti human rights reports
March 24, 2011 — Paloma Institute joined a coalition of 58 Haitian grassroots groups, internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, human rights organizations, and academic institutions in presenting a set of 13 reports on human rights in Haiti to the U.N. Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The reports were organized by the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN), and Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI). The coalition’s reports covered issues ranging from voting rights violations, to gender-based violence, to environmental and agricultural rights. Paloma Institute board member Guy Knudsen contributed to the Environmental Justice component of the reports. The reports are available at: http://ijdh.org/projects/universal-periodic-review-upr