Beatrice Lindstrom
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Beatrice Lindstrom is a human rights lawyer and Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti/ Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, a human right law firm located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her work focuses primarily on the right to housing, including advocating for displaced communities facing evictions from their camps. Beatrice has worked on economic and social rights advocacy in a number of settings, including within the U.N. system, in U.S. courts, and in tsunami-affected areas of Thailand. She is a graduate of NYU School of Law.

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Final Whistle for 514 Families as Haitian Government Illegally Closes Stadium Camp

Posted July 28, 2011 | 21:38:29 (EST)

This post was co-authored by Jocelyn Brooks, who is an Ella Baker associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights, based at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

We watch an aged man pull his cart out of Sylvio Cator Stadium's back gate, maneuvering it precariously between...

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As Hurricane Season Looms, Government Officers Destroy Haiti Tent Camps

Posted June 2, 2011 | 11:30:33 (EST)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- On a small side street away from the public eye, a woman stands amidst debris. "Leve, leve!" she screams, reenacting for me how the police woke her in the morning, yelling at her to get out before they cut down her tent. Next to her, a panicked...

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Law in the Time of Cholera: Violations of the Right to Water in Haiti

Posted January 21, 2011 | 11:42:44 (EST)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- On a Sunday afternoon in Camp Kasim, water is nowhere to be found. Once the Oxfam-supplied tanks run dry for the weekend, they will not be refilled until Monday. If cholera were to strike on a Sunday, life-saving rehydration may be but a theoretical possibility.

The cholera...

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