Haiti’s November 28 Elections: Efforts to Legitimize the Illegitimate

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I helped as a research assistant on this project titled "Haiti’s November 28 Elections: Efforts to Legitimize the Illegitimate" for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. It did have an impact on the way the election was covered in the media, however - the international communtiy did not take it's content into consideration and continued to support and fund deeply flawed elections which will have repercussions for years to come.


You can read the report here: http://ijdh.org/archives/15456

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