You. Me. We. Director/ Co-Founder Tracy McGaugh is in Touro Law Center's Spotlight this month. Touro's students and faculty are committed to making a difference in communities. Tracy was chosen for the "Spotlight" because of the difference she makes and her passion for social justice.
19 Haitian and international policy and legal groups and human rights organizations called on the Obama administration to "cease supporting the OAS Verification Mission recommendations," something they consider "an attempt to arbitrarily change the results of the elections and force the people of Haiti to accept an election that do[es] not express [their] will."
This week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) directed the Haitian State to stop evicting earthquake survivors from displacement camps unless they are provided safe and adequate shelter. The directive is in response to a formal request filed by human rights advocates who testified in October about an epidemic of forced evictions from the camps. center You.Me.We.
The group requested the commission, an arm of the Organization of American States, to investigate reports that the Government of Haiti is violating international and domestic law in carrying out forced evictions.
Human rights advocates are set to testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights next Tuesday about what they say are unlawful forced evictions in that country. The groups claim that hundreds of camps have been threatened with eviction or actually evicted as people purporting to be land owners stake claim to the land.
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