Brian Concannon

Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq., IJDH Executive Director, co-managed the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux in Haiti for eight years, from 1996-2004. He founded IJDH, and has been the Director since 2004. He helped prepare the prosecution of the Raboteau Massacre trial in 2000, one of the most significant human rights cases anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. He has represented Haitian political prisoners before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and represented the plaintiff in Yvon Neptune v. Haiti, the only Haiti case ever tried before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He speaks and writes frequently about human rights in Haiti.