This Thursday, December 15, a tribute will be paid to the human rights activist, professor, academic and writer Jean-Claude Bajeux https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3531-haiti-politic-jean-claude-bajeux-passed-away.html From 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the FOKAL the public will be able to remember of the path of founder of the Ecumenical Centre for human rights, over a projection, an exhibition and a meeting-debate with speakers who will discuss of his career and the struggle for human rights in Haiti.

This tribute is organized by the FOKAL through the American corner Harold Courlander of the library Monique Calixte (BMC). At 2:00 p.m. the film Invictus (2009) of Clint Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon will be screened. In 1994, the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of apartheid, but South Africa remains a deeply divided nation in racial and economically terms. To unify the country and give each citizen a source of pride, Mandela bet on the sport, and made ​​common cause with the captain of the modest rugby team of South Africa. Their bet : go to the 1995 World Championship to be held in South Africa and win.

At 4 p.m., the public will have the opportunity to view an exhibition that evokes the path of this great intellectual and activist that was Jean-Claude Bajeux, who sadly passed away recently.

Finally, 5 p.m., a meeting-debater hosted by Michèle D. Pierre-Louis will bring together Me Jean Joseph Exumé, Ms. Danièle Magloire, Mr Laennec Hurbon and the Reverend Father William Smarth. At a time where we use anyhow of terms of infringement or of defense of human rights, Jean-Joseph Exumé will recall the legal meaning of human rights and legal remedies for violations of human rights in Haiti. Danièle Magloire, Director of Rights & Democracy and human rights activist, will discuss the course and the place occupied by Jean-Claude Bajeux in the fight for the respect of human rights in Haiti but also elsewhere, during his years in exile. Laënnec Hurbon, Doctor of Theology (Catholic Institute of Paris) and sociology (Sorbonne) is Director of Research at CNRS and professor at the University Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince, which he is a founding member. Friend of Jean-Claude Bajeux, he will discuss his career and his work for the creation of the CEDH. Finally, father William Smart, a member of the Congregation of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit's Petit Séminaire / College of Saint Martial, PhD in theology and canon law, founder of CIFOR for the training of seminarians, will present the path of Jean-Claude Bajeux as a priest, his experience in Cameroon, the animation of the Young People's Library and the writing of his diary Rond-Point, his activism against injustice.

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