Mario Joseph with Salem Award for Human Rights & Social Justice

Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon are the founders of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. They are two sister organizations that work extensively at the grass roots level in a non-violent way for the consolidation of human rights, justice and constitutional democracy. Joseph is the managing attorney of BAI, hails from Haiti, is known as the "Haiti's most prominent human rights lawyer."---- He had confirmed the convictions of some of the deadliest military leaders during a six-week trial. Concannon, a Boston native, sued the United Nations for billions of dollars on behalf of the families of thousands of cholera victims who became ill or died in a 2010-11 cholera outbreak caused by the negligence of the U.N. peacekeeping force. Joseph and Concannon are lawyers by vocation but humanitarians and activists by nature. They have courageously defended and successfully fought to restore human rights in the lives of poor Haitians. They have stood up to unjust economics, dictatorships, death squad leaders and even when it was necessary, challenged the United Nations and U.S. policy. After working 8 years in Haiti with the BAI and U.N, Brian Concannon returned to U.S in 2004 and established the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) in Boston. It supports BAI and assists to execute U.S policy towards Haiti.

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