Haiti Is the Focus of International Human Rights Law Effort While Haitian Refugees Have Mixed Success in Pressing Human Rights Abroad

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Thursday, July 1, 1993
Author: 
Kimberly Jeneece Jenkins
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
7
274
Abstract: 
The international community, specifically the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for American States (OAS), apparently has successfully rallied to impose economic sanctions against the Haitian military government to enforce compliance with international human rights and democratic rule. International human rights organizations have supported these efforts through their continued efforts to separate the military from the police force potentially to disarm the enforcement mechanism of the military government…[more]