a1499: BBC: UN names Frenchman to monitor rights in Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Benodin <r.benodin@worldnet.att.net>

UN names Frenchman to monitor rights in Haiti
Business Recorder; Mar 28, 2002



UNITED NATIONS : The United Nations on Tuesday named French legal expert
Louis Joinet to monitor human rights in Haiti.
Joinet, 68, has served in France as a human rights expert and legal adviser
to the late President Francois Mitterrand and five prime ministers.
During a long legal career, he has also been a judge, a senior prosecutor, a
solicitor general for two top French courts and director of a national
agency set up to safeguard civil liberties in the computer age.
Joinet was named independent expert on human rights in Haiti by the
Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Rights, succeeding Adama Dieng of
Senegal, who resigned a year ago.
Haiti, one of the world's poorest nations, has a long history of coups,
political unrest and violence.
The United Nations sent a peacekeeping mission to the Caribbean nation in
March 1995 but shut it down in February 2001, saying it was underfunded and
could not function properly in a climate of political turmoil.-Reuters
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