HAITI ACTION ALERT: A broad coalition of Haitian elected officials,
community organizations and human rights groups, including Fondayson
Trant Septanm (September 30th Foundation) have announced plans for a
series of activities in Haiti calling for the safe return of Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine. At a press conference in Port-au-Prince on Monday,
August 27th, the coalition, Gwoup Inisyativ Pou Sove Lavi Pierre-Antoine
(Group Initiative to Save the Life of Pierre-Antoine), announced that it
would stage vigils and peaceful marches this Wednesday and Friday.

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is a Haitian grassroots leader, member of the
Lavalas Party, and the head of Fondayson Trant Septanm, a Haitian human
rights organization that advocates for victims of the 1991 and 2004 coup
d’etats against the democratically-elected governments of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide. He has not been seen since the evening of Sunday, August 12,
2007 after meeting with a U.S. human rights delegation currently in
Haiti. He is presumed kidnapped.

As a young psychologist working in Port au Prince, Lovinsky helped

establish Fondsayon Kore Timoun Yo (Foundation for the Support of
Children) for young street children in Port au Prince; FAM (Foyer pour
Adolescentes Mères), a center for teenage mothers; and Map Viv (”I
Live”), a program designed to give psychological and medical aid to the
victims of the first coup against Aristide in 1991. The September 30th
Foundation, named for the date of the first coup against President
Aristide in 1991, emerged out of this work. Similar to the work of
Mothers of the Disappeared in Central and South America, September 30th
Foundation held weekly vigils demanding justice for victims of human
rights violations and the release of political prisoners.

Forced to leave Haiti after the 2004 coup, Lovinsky returned to the
country in April 2006. Since that time, he has continued his efforts on
behalf of human rights. A delegation of activists with the Haiti Action
Committee had the privilege of meeting with Lovinsky in his home last
month. We are deeply concerned over his disappearance.

Please support the call by the Gwoup Inisyativ Pou Sove Lavi
Pierre-Antoine.

Contact the following offices of the Haitian government, the U.S.
Embassy and the U.N. occupying powers. Express your concern that all
efforts are being made to facilitate the safe and peaceful return of
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.

Call the authorities in Haiti, at (011):

Haitian Ministry of Justice
Tel: 011-509-245-0474

UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
Tel:  011-509-244-9650-9660
Fax: 011-509-244-9366/67
Or, Fax, Office of General Secretary (New York) – (212) 963.4879

United States Embassy
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Telephones: 011-509-223-4711, or 222-0200 or 0354
Fax: 011-509-223-1641 or 9038