Former Pathways Intern Continues Work to Protect Human and Environmental Rights

By Sydney Speizman, Accountability Counsel, in The Kenan Institute for Ethics

Walking through the lush green fields alongside the Trou-du-Nord River, it is immediately clear that this land supports growth; fruit hangs heavy from the trees and vegetation rises waist-high. These fields were once some of the most fertile farmland in Northeast Haiti, and supported up to 4,000 people – some of whom had farmed the land for generations. However, a cinderblock wall now blocks off 250 hectares of this land from the people who had relied on it for both their livelihoods and their source of food.

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