Primer on the Anti-Immigrant Forces Determined to Hijack American Politics
Immigration: Waiting for Godot Need Not Be Policy
Baby Doc is Dead, Duvalierism Lives On
Dealing With Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Haiti: It Started with a Bang…
The Duvalier Case: What Is at Stake at the Court of Appeals
Another day of reckoning for Jean Claude Duvalier?
Will Duvalier’s Victims Have Their Day in Court?
Will Duvalier Regain Access to Illicit Funds Pilfered from the Haitian Treasury?
My Homeland Has Collapsed
Psst… Want to Win an Internet Poll?
Looking Back at Haiti Elections 5 Years Agoimmigration »
Primer on the Anti-Immigrant Forces Determined to Hijack American Politics
From Know-Nothings[1] to KKK to Tanton to Trump By Rick Swartz and Jocelyn McCalla[2] October 15, 2015 [NOTE: CLICK on Primer on Anti-Immigrant Movement to download the document and Associated materials] Anti-immigrant extremists are again pushing the GOP — and the country — towards zero-immigration policies. Their current standard-bearer, GOP presidential primary candidate Donald Trump, has… Read More ›
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Baby Doc is Dead, Duvalierism Lives On
In October 1986, the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees (NCHR) and Americas Watch (a division of Human Rights Watch) released a report on human rights conditions in Haiti. Entitled Duvalierism Since Duvalier, the report chronicled the lack of progress made in distancing Haiti from a disastrous 29-year past fashioned by the Duvaliers (père et fils)… Read More ›
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Human Rights in Haiti in the Manigat Era
Michael S. Hooper and Jocelyn McCalla Leslie F. Manigat died on June 27, 2014 at the age of 83. Elevated to the presidency of Haiti via army-backed sham elections in January 1988, Manigat was forcibly removed from office about four months later by the very leaders who had put him there. Haitians generally considered… Read More ›
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I am Haiti too! (2)
Six months of meticulous research, planning, preparation, coordination, partnerships and team building led to an exceptionally well-organized and fruitful conference under the able hands of the Jean Robert Cadet Restavec Foundation and The Maurice Sixto Foundation.
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Will Internationalism be the new US Mantra?
The United States will no longer shun the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Obama Administration announced today that it will seek a seat on the Council. More importantly, according to the Washington Post, New Zealand has offered to step aside in order to ensure that should the US bid for a seat on the… Read More ›
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