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UN Accountability for Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic

Part of: Remedies For Harm Caused By UN Peacekeepers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ira Kurzban ,
Beatrice Lindstrom  and
Shannon Jonsson
Ira Kurzban
Affiliation:
Miami civil rights law firm Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzelli & Pratt and Georges et al v. United Nations
Beatrice Lindstrom
Affiliation:
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and Georges et al v. United Nations
Shannon Jonsson
Affiliation:
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
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A lawsuit pending in U.S. courts against the United Nations for its responsibility for Haiti’s cholera out-break is the largest challenge yet to the impunity of the organization, which has thus far refused to comply with its legal obligations to provide a settlement mechanism to the victims. With no such avenue of redress available to them, those affected by the epidemic have been left in the bizarre situation where in order to obtain justice they must file lawsuits against the United Nations, whose mandate is to defend the rule of law and promote human rights. If successful, the suit would improve accountability for the organization and underscore the need for it to comply with international law.

Type
Symposium: Remedies For Harm Caused By UN Peacekeepers
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 17 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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