By the Light of Our Headlamps
- October 4, 2012
Lab analysis by the light of our headlamps. Photo Credit: Franco Mora (Reposted from I’d Advise Against the Camel Milk)
Xabaala Wadareedkani Waa
- October 2, 2012
Sign marking the mass grave. Photo credit: Leslie Naranjo (Reposted from I’d Advise Against the Camel Milk)
Relatives of Missing Persons
- October 2, 2012
CJA client Aziz Deria at Badkha 2 gravesite with relatives of missing persons in the 1984 massacre.
Further Excavations
- September 29, 2012
On Friday, families showed up at the site for an antemortem interview. The grave is being excavated and the bodies of at least five people are visible.
Unearthing a Smile
- September 28, 2012
To be able to change someone’s fate by retrieving them from a pit of horror and return them to their family and loved ones for a future with a proper burial full of respect and love is the most honourable thing I have ever had the opportunity to partake in.
Clearing the site and opening ceremony by Minister of Justice Mohamed Hussein Aideed
- September 26, 2012
After a moving ceremony this morning, we began the process of exhumation at the site known as Badkha 2.
Haiti: Human Rights Lawyers Face a Rising Tide of Persecution
- September 25, 2012
Prominent human rights attorney and long-time CJA partner Mario Joseph is facing an escalating series of threats and harassment against his person and the offices of the Haitian human rights NGO, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI). The threats come as possible retaliation for BAI’s human rights claims against former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier and the current government of Michel Martelly. Learn how you can take action to defend Mario Joseph and BAI’s important work.
