Symposium:
Human Rights Aftershocks: Haiti

St. Thomas University’s Intercultural Human Rights Law Review presented its annual symposium entitled "Human Rights Aftershocks: Haiti" November 5, 2010. A thorough discussion on the human rights issues surrounding Haiti since the tragic January, 2010 earthquake was the focal point of this event. The conference also shed light on Haiti’s history of shortcomings in governance and its extreme poverty.

The sixth annual symposium was an all day event consisting of panel discussions featuring eminent legal scholars, attorneys, judges, and policy makers. The panelists engaged in deliberations concerning intercultural human rights issues relating to Haitian governance, foreign assistance, internally displaced persons, and child trafficking and adoption following the earthquake. The symposium aimed at exploring ways of developing effective solutions to problems that violate respect and dignity of every human being, and of charting new directions in the struggle for human rights, justice, and equality within this country.