Lawyers suing United Nations over cholera outbreak in Haiti

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Oct 09, 2013

NEW YORK, CMC – Human right lawyers are seeking extensive financial damages from the United Nations following the 2010 cholera outbreak in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, Haiti, that killed more than 8,000 people.
The Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which has filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District, said “the plaintiffs include Haitians and Haitian Americans who contracted cholera themselves as well as family members of those who died of the disease.
The lawyers are claiming that the UN has failed to take responsibility of the outbreak that was triggered when sewage from infected peacekeepers also resulted in more than 650,000 people becoming ill.

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