28753: Potemaksonje (ARTICLE) Human Rights Report examines UN mission to Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

from potemaksonje@yahoo.com




New Miami University Human Rights Report examines UN
mission to Haiti.
http://www.law.miami.edu/cshr/CSHR_Report_0311-162006.pdf




The Center for the Study of Human Rights at the
University of Miami Law School just released another
good report, this one focussing on the UN and Human
Rights in Haiti.


As human rights atrocities continue to occur across
Haiti, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in
Haiti (MINUSTAH) has received much criticism for
failing to adhere to its mandate to ?promote and
protect human rights.?  Indeed this failure has been
one of the major causes of the prolonged suffering of
the Haitian people during the interim government?s
reign between 2004 and 2006.


Resolution 1542 of the United Nations Security council
created MINUSTAH with a mandate requiring it to
respect the sovereignty of Haiti as an independent
nation by supporting and working in coordination with
the Haitian interim government. The mandate states
that the role of MINUSTAH is ?to support the
Transitional Government as well as Haitian human
rights institutions and groups in their efforts to
promote and protect human rights, particularly of
women and children, in order to ensure individual
accountability for human rights abuses and redress for
victims.?2 The mandate further binds MINUSTAH ?to
monitor and report on the human rights situation, in
cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, including on the
situation of returned refugees and displaced persons.?
Although MINUSTAH claims to be
monitoring the human rights situation, many human
rights workers criticize it for failing to publish
reports on human rights violations....

Read the rest of the report:
http://www.law.miami.edu/cshr/CSHR_Report_0311-162006.pdf

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