The United Nations and cholera in Haiti: guilty but not responsible? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798692031280)

"Despite completing its tenth anniversary, the Haitian tragedy remains highly topical in these COVID 19 times. Many of the tribulations surrounding the current pandemic can be found in the case of cholera: a divided science; promiscuous relations between science and politics; the contestable and contested role of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); the heated debates about the origin and the responsibility for the outbreak. The current crisis appears to be a large-scale repeat of the 2010 drama".Ricardo Seitenfus"The experience of MINUSTAH is disastrous for the poorest country in the Americas whose entry into the concert of nations is still a case of forceps. In addition to the fact that the stabilization is ultimately a sham, it has sowed in the soil of Haiti a degrading disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. A man of remarkable integrity, Dr. Ricardo Seitenfus sounds the alarm by declaring the guilt of the global organization for the introduction of cholera in Haiti. Thus, he has rendered a historic service to the victims of cholera in Haiti, and to all those who care about international justice or who believe in the potential of the United Nations to fight against diseases and to promote human rights and the rule of law in the world. He explained, through careful research of the facts and a rigorous analysis of the applicable legal regime, that, for ten years, the institutions in charge of protecting the vulnerable populations of Haiti against the attacks of bacteria, people, and institutions have completely neglected them. The United Nations and cholera in Haiti: guilty but not responsible ?, this is the title of the latest book by Dr. Ricardo Seitenfus, devoted to Haiti. In a simple and clear but very learned style, the author tackles the thorny issue of cholera, a diarrheal disease that is highly contagious due to a food-borne enteric epidemic of the bacteria. This work is, to say the least, the most eloquent testimony of the respect due to the Haitian people and to universal awareness. Without blinking, the author recounts the importation of the disease, recognizes the UN's desire to circumvent the truth of the laboratory and in this way avoid responsibilities by refusing to take the most basic precautions to prevent the introduction of cholera in Haiti and by cynically deploying a cover-up that has contributed to the spread of the epidemic on a national scale and has caused countless deaths, and denounces the dishonest maneuvers to bring the burden of the new leprosy to Haiti, even to corrupt the history of the country. He also highlights the legal limits of the claims of families of more than 10,000 deaths from cholera, emphasizing immunities, a sort of curtain of protection for United Nations in this case. He also denounces the denial of justice by the United Nations, which loses credibility by denying its own laws. As Professor Seitenfus so aptly points out, the struggle is not yet over, even though the cholera victims and their allies have managed to push the international community to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the fight against cholera, to reduce the risks for vulnerable populations around the world hosting peacekeeping troops, and to make significant improvements in public health globally. The United Nations is guilty but not responsible. But then, how to be guilty without being responsible? Clearly, with this book, the trial is done. The United Nations is condemned. Many victims are waiting for reparations".Mario Joseph - Human rights lawyer, legal representative of the victims of cholera"Among the most significant and least known revelations made is based on the serious scientific work carried out by Piarroux: Tens of thousands of Haitians probably succumbed to cholera in the northern half of the country, in the first epidemic wave".Dr. Jean-Hugues Henrys - National Public Health Laboratory, Haiti

Author: Mario Joseph
ISBN-10: 8692031283
ISBN-13: 9798692031280
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2020
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d