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Advocating for Justice in Haiti’s Prisons

We collaborated with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and Partners in Health to support their efforts to address the human rights and health issues created by excessive pre-trial detention in Haitian prisons. Our two partner organizations established […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Criminal Justice

After the Quake: Protecting Haitian Women in Displacement Camps

In the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake, we worked with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti to create two videos featuring the voices of Haitian women who experienced violence in internally displaced persons camps. One video was shown in […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Women's Rights

Breaking the Wall of Impunity

NMAP and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) co-produced two videos to advocate for reopening cases related to crimes committed under the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973- 1985) and bring truth and justice for families of the disappeared, […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights, Criminal Justice, Women's Rights

Beneath the Surface: The Impacts of Mining

NMAP created the Beneath the Surface series to inform rural communities facing mining about their rights, and empower them with legally sound strategies for protecting themselves. Each video in the series features a relevant story from different communities around the […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

Beneath the Surface: Negotiating the Environmental Impact Assessment

For this indigenous community in Bolivia, promises of running water and electricity offered by a mining company never materialized. Instead, the community was subjected to environmentally destructive mining practices and explosions that threatened their livelihood—Brazil nuts. The community leaders decided […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

Advancing Justice Through Expert Testimony in Haiti

NMAP Partnered with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti to educate the Haitian bar about use of expert witness in rape prosecutions. Haiti’s penal code and criminal procedure have not been updated since 183. Haitian judges, prosecutors, and […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights, Criminal Justice, Women's Rights

Accountability During Haiti’s Earthquake

We produced a set of videos with Partners in Health and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti in connection with Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. These videos were designed to expose the fact that despite raising $2.5 billion and heavily […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights

Stadium Zacatapec

NMAP partnered with acclaimed Mexican think tank, El Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad A.C. (IMCO) to produce five videos that focus on wide-ranging corruption and misappropriation of taxes. The videos accomplish this by demonstrating everyday citizens’ attitudes towards corruption, showing […]