back at their headquarters in downtown port-au-prince the fruits of the lawyers' painstaking labor is kept in a dusty store-room, still waiting for the day it will be used in court. >> these are all the case files in here? >> yes, this is the first five thousand filed. not only have we filled the form, they're notarized. they said "we received the complaints, we will give you an answer and respond in due time" - i don't know when the reasonable time will be. >> but it's been more than a year? >> more than a year, yes. >> and you've heard nothing? >> nothing, nothing. >> faced with the un's silence, the lawyers decided to expand the lawsuit, adding more names to the thousands who'd already filed a complaint. >> un have to respond. >> un must respond. they promote human rights. we will continue to fight. until they respond, we will file complaints. for all the people! the 2010 earthquake killed more than 220,000 people - those who lost their lives are remembered each year with dignitaries from around the world coming to pay their respects. but for those who've died - and continue to die

in downtown port au prince there are countless monuments commemorating the seventy ninety one slave revolt in haiti the first successful all black slave revolution in the history of the world more recently the united states and other imperialist nations have set the stage for haiti's vulnerability presenting solutions that seemed to always fall short to find out why breaking the set traveled to haiti on a charter plane with former u.s. president jimmy carter and a team of over six hundred volunteers from the nonprofit group habitat for humanity . we arrived at what would be our home for the next three days a small campsite in little gun a village only a short distance west of port au prince. then we joined the habitat team at their build site in an area called santo. to assess the impact the organization is having on the local community. here that's where we met this man joseph out who gave us a tour of the home that was built for his family last year after they became refugees of the two thousand and ten earthquake while he and his family have found a permanent refuge joseph remains conce

looking at the mom and pop businesses, so that people have jobs and rethinking about the way downtown port-au-princece. 80% of entrepreneurs, and to ignore the economic lifeline of the country is to let it die. we didn't see that outside our mandate. this is my building era. you want to talk about building leadership, look at man, haitian architect, who decided to give up his firm in new york, go back to the country that he called his home, and to dedicate his life to ensure there was not only strong buildings, but a strong architectural engineering construction practice so this never happens again. true leaders happen within the silent, quiet, strong determined architects in our profession, and we shouldn't overlook that we have a number of quiet heros who made us look incredibly good for what we do. i have 11 minutes. we're going to go tho japan really quickly. what we learned from haiti was it's not just about how we build. it's how we leave. implementing an exit strategy, like, come into your community, figure out help and support we need, figure out a way so we don't stay so that exit strategy

get the mom-and-pop business as -- so that people have jobs and rethinking about the way downtown port-au-princets commerce. 80 percent of haiti our entrepreneurs. ignore the economic lifeline of the country. just letting you die. making sure we did not see that outside of our mandate. if he is my building, you want to talk about leaders, look at the man, patient architecture decided he would give up his firm in new york, go back to the country that he called his home and dedicate his lives to ensure there were not only small buildings, but a small architectural engineering construction practice. we should not overlook that we have a number of quiet heroes who have made us look incredibly good at what we do. so i have 11 minutes. we will go through japan really. what we learned from haiti and katrina was it is not just about how we built but have relief series of implementing an exit strategy like we're going to come in to your community, figure out the help and support we need, figure out a way so that we don't stay, so that exit strategy was part of our thinking as we started working in japan.