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What can be done in a society where justice is inexistent?

By Jean-Valery Vital Herne, Micah Challenge Coordinator, Haiti

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For many months a question has been going round my brain.   Often I caught myself thinking it, again and again.  It pursued me like an obsession. Like an old stuck record, I asked myself over and over: what can be done in a society where justice is inexistent? Or rather, what is one’s recourse in a context where justice is represented by this adulated blindfolded woman but respected by none?

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