Brian Concannon, a former UN Volunteer who worked on human rights in Haiti, is the founder and director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). The IJDH and the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux have filed a lawsuit on the behalf of the victims and relatives of Haiti's ongoing cholera epidemic against the United Nations (UN) and its Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for negligent behavior that led to the outbreak.