<font style="font-family: georgia,serif;" size="4"><b>Human rights and the politics of aid: A discussion with Lamp for Haiti<br>
</b><br><font size="4">Friday, February 11 @ 6 pm<br>
Harvard School of Public Health, 2nd floor Kresge<br>Sponsored by: UnityAyiti and Healthroots<br></font></font><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font style="font-family: georgia,serif;" size="2"><b>Come
hear from Regine Theodat, Haitian-American lawyer with Lamp for Haiti
who runs the organization's new human rights office in the midst of Cite
Soleil. <br>
</b><br>We plan to discuss...<br><br>-- A human rights perspective on the NGO/UN system <br>-- MINUSTAH (the UN "stabilization" force) and its political context<br>-- Cite Soleil: dispelling myths and confronting challenges<br>
-- The role of law in community-based human rights work<br>-- How US based solidarity activism can help support human rights work in Haiti<br><br><b>For more information on Lamp for Haiti: <a href="http://www.lampforhaiti.org/" target="_blank">http://www.lampforhaiti.org/</a></b><br>
<br><br><b>Lamp for Haiti: Who we Are</b></font><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The LAMP for Haiti is an apolitical, nonsectarian humanitarian
organization, founded in 2006 by Thomas Griffin, Esq. and James Morgan,
MD. This nongovernmental organization (NGO) was begun to redress the
consequences of unmitigated poverty so starkly evident in the Haitian
urban setting, in particular in the slum of Cite Soleil, located
adjacent to the national airport in the country’s capitol,
Port-au-Prince. While the average person in Haiti lives on about one US
dollar per day, the Cite Soleil resident barely gets by on a fraction
of this amount. It is estimated that about 300,000 people reside in
that particular slum (roughly one-tenth of the population of the capitol
itself).</p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The Lamp Foundation is a not for profit corporation whose mission is
to work together with the people of Haiti, to advocate for the respect
and protection of basic human rights in the areas of greatest misery and
poverty in the capital city of Port-Au-Prince. In pursuit of this
mission, the Lamp provides basic health care, investigates allegations
of human right abuses, and provides educational and humanitarian aid.
The Lamp does not support or oppose any government or political system.
We are solely concerned with the impartial protection of all basic
human rights.</p><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br>