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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">·      A former US president is
leading a sovereign country’s reconstruction process </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">·      No effective mechanism for the
UN system to hear the voices of 1.7 million internally displaced people</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">·      8 months later and with billions of dollars pledged, the majority of a city still lives under plastic</span></p>









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PEOPLE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: center;" align="center"><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;"></span></b></p>









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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">Guest visitors: Brian
Concannon (Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti), Mark Snyder
(International Action Ties)<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: center;" align="center"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;"></span></p>









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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">Thursday, September 9 at
6 pm, FXB Center G-13 (basement), Harvard School of Public Health:  </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">Come hear insights and
experiences from activists on the ground and in Boston.  Discuss with
others how we can play a role in promoting sovereignty and human rights for the
Haitian people. Join an international solidarity movement to support Haitians
in fighting exploitation and directing their own reconstruction process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">Harvard School of Public Health FXB Center: 651 Huntington Drive, Boston, MA 02115 in Longwood<br>




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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" lang="EN-GB">Contact Deepa: <a href="mailto:dpanchang@gmail.com" target="_blank">dpanchang@gmail.com</a>; 832-875-7539 for more information</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;"></span></b></p>









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