The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 55
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Some officials and diplomats have suggested that although they would favour providing an appropriate remedy in this case, nothing can be done until the shadow of litigation has been lifted. To take action before then would only encourage many more suits designed to achieve the same result: the proverbial "floodgates" would be opened. But even in the wake of the dismissal of the suit on 19 August 2016, the floodgates argument seems to motivate continuing insistence on the abdication policy.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights