Peacekeeping without Accountability - Yale Law School

The Transnational Development Clinic is a legal clinic, part of the Jerome N.Frank Legal Services Organization at the Yale Law School. The clinic works on arange of litigation and non-litigation projects designed to promote communitycenteredinternational development, with an emphasis on global poverty. Theclinic works with community-based clients and client groups and provides themwith legal advice, counseling, and representation in order to promote specificdevelopment projects. The clinic also focuses on development projects that havea meaningful nexus to the U.S., in terms of client populations, litigation oradvocacy forum, or applicable legal or regulatory framework.The Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) is a joint program of the YaleLaw School and the Yale School of Public Health, designed to promote research,projects, and academic exchanges in the areas of law, global health, and humanrights. The GHJP has undertaken projects related to intellectual property andaccess to medicines, reproductive rights and maternal health, sexual orientationand gender identity, and occupational health. The partnership engages studentsand faculty through a clinic course, a lunch series, symposia, policy dialogues,and other events. The partnership works collaboratively with academics,activists, lawyers, and other practitioners across the globe and welcomes manyof them as visitors for short- and long-term visits at Yale.Copyright © 2013,Transnational DevelopmentClinic, Jerome N. Frank LegalServices Organization, YaleLaw School, Global HealthJustice Partnership of theYale Law School and the YaleSchool of Public Health,and Association Haitiennede Droit de L’Environnment.All rights reserved.Printed in the UnitedStates of AmericaReport design byJessica SvendsenCover photograph was takenoutside the MINUSTAH basein Méyè in March of 2013,during the research team’svisit to Haiti.L’Association Haïtienne de Droit de l’Environnement (AHDEN) is a non-profitorganization of Haitian lawyers and jurists with scientific training. Theorganization’s mission is to help underprivileged Haitians living in rural areasfight poverty through the defense and promotion of environmental and humanrights. These rights are in a critical condition in places like Haiti where ruralcommunities have limited access to education and justice.