Attorney Phillips is the lead editor and coordinator of a just-released report by the IJDH on post-earthquake conditions in Haiti entitled, “We’ve Been Forgotten”: Conditions in Haiti’s Displacement Camps Eight Months After the Earthquake. It doc­u­ments con­tin­u­ing des­per­a­tion in Haiti’s survivor camps and rec­om­mends a rights-based approach to relief and reconstruction.

Despite the inter­na­tional community’s his­toric gen­eros­ity fol­low­ing the Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 earth­quake, the sup­port has not been trans­lated into effec­tive assis­tance for the approximately 1.3 million res­i­dents of 1,300 makeshift tent camps in and around Port au Prince. Con­di­tions for many are get­ting worse, not bet­ter.

The report was based on investigations in six survivor camps conducted by a team of researchers, including Ms. Phillips, in July. The full report can be found at http://ijdh.org/archives/14633. For more infor­ma­tion, please visit IJDH’s Hous­ing Rights Advo­cacy Project web­site at http://ijdh.org/housing.

In addition to her work at IJDH, Nicole Phillips is Director of the Haiti and Dominican Republic human rights programs at the Center for Law and Global Justice, University of San Francisco School of Law.

Nicole Phillips will speak at two public forums on October 5-- at the Liu Institute on Global Issues at the University of British Columbia at 3:30 pm , and at 7 pm at Harbour Center, 515 W. Hastings St. She is available for interviews in Vancouver on October 3 and 4, and by phone before then.  More details on the speaking events are at: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/events. 

For more information, contact Roger Annis of Haiti Solidarity BC at 778 858 5179 or haitisolidaritybc(at)resist.ca.