Fran Quigley
Fran Quigley is a professor at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, where he directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic. He is the author of How Human Rights Can Build Haiti (Vanderbilt University Press) and co-authored a friend of the court brief in support of the plaintiffs in Georges v. United Nations.
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Views Tuesday, February 09, 2016 Hammer of Justice: Heartland Peace Activist Facing Felonies for Breaking Northrup Grumman Windows Jessica Reznicek, 34, an Iowa peace activist, was arraigned yesterday and charged with two felonies for breaking three windows with a sledgehammer at the Northrup Grumman facility outside the Omaha Nebraska Strategic Air Command at Offut Air Force base. After her court appearance she was returned... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 05, 2016 Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back. Along the path toward the creation of a global capitalist system, some of the most significant steps were taken by the English enclosure movement. Between the 15 th to 19 th centuries, the rich and the powerful fenced off commonly held land and transformed it into private property. Land switched... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Is the TPP the Bull Connor Moment for Access to Medicines? Earlier this month, the representatives of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) parties announced they had concluded five years of negotiations by agreeing to final terms . Simply put, the TPP is designed to block the sick and the poor from accessing affordable generic and biosimilar... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Haitian Cholera Victims Undaunted by Court Ruling of UN Immunity Earlier this month, on the eve of the 5th anniversary of Haiti’s tragic earthquake, a U.S. District Court judge ruled against Haitians’ class action suit asking the United Nations to take responsibility for the deadly cholera epidemic it triggered in October of 2010. Viewed from both narrow and... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 10, 2014 From Cradle to Grave, the US Protected Jean-Claude Duvalier In February of 2013, I stood in a sweaty, overcrowded Port-au-Prince courtroom and watched as Jean-Claude Duvalier answered questions about hundreds of his political opponents being arrested, imprisoned, and killed during his tenure as Haiti’s “President for Life.” Many of Duvalier’s rivals were... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 15, 2013 How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists Read more |
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Views Friday, April 12, 2013 Things Are Difficult: A Post-Earthquake Disaster in Haiti At first, Yvonne Jolivan does not have an answer to my question. Read more |
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Views Friday, March 01, 2013 Free Michael Posner: The US Holds the Key to Duvalier Prosecution PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – I am in the courtroom for a hearing on the cases charging that Jean-Claude Duvalier committed massive human rights violations during his tenure as Haiti’s president from 1971 to 1986. The courtroom is mobbed—black-robed lawyers, TV cameramen shining lights straight onto the panel of judges, and viktims of Duvalier’s murderous regime all jostle for space. It is a big day. Read more |
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Views Monday, December 31, 2012 How Human Rights Can Save Haiti Last month, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new initiative to address the cholera epidemic in Haiti. The plan includes a variety of measures, most notably the building of desperately-needed water and sanitation infrastructure. Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 16, 2012 Haitian Political Prisoner Released From Prison, Says Repression Likely to Continue Two weeks ago, a weary looking yet jubilant David Oxygène stepped out of the prison building into a throng of supporters. The Haitian political activist was released after over two months in prison since he was arrested on June 19, 2012, during one of his group’s weekly Port-au-Prince demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs, calling on the Martelly government for work and better social policies for Haiti’s poor. Read more |