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Inside Story Americas on Al Jazera on Feb 2, 2012 features a 30-minute panel discussion on the decision of a Haitian judge on January 30, 2012 that Jean Claude Duvalier should not face charges of crimes against humanity. The panel features Lawyer Brian Concannon of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Washington DC radio host Jean-Yves Point du Jour and Haiti Libertée editor Kim Ives. Listen or watch here.

By Sue Montgomery, The Gazette (Montreal), February 3, 2012

This week's news that former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier would not be tried for grave human-rights abuses committed under his watch may have been a serious blow to the victims but was met with a disturbing silence in most camps.

Report on NPR Radio, Jan 27, 2012
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Even before the devastating earthquake in 2010, Haiti's public health care system was perhaps the worst in the Western Hemisphere. Then the quake knocked down clinics, killed medical workers and severely damaged the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital.

Now, the Boston-based group Partners in Health has set out to build a world-class teaching hospital in what used to be a rice field in