The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has learned with great dismay of the massacre perpetrated during the night of October 2 to 3, 2024, against the population of Pont-Sondé, located in the 5th communal section of Saint-Marc, in the Artibonite department…
Nou Pap Dòmi, la Plateforme des Organisations Haïtiennes des Droits Humains (POHDH) et le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) prennent note de la création, en date du 18 septembre 2024, en Conseil des Ministres, de la Commission Vérité, Justice et Réparation…
Préoccupé par la situation alarmante qui sévit au Centre de Rééducation des Mineurs en Conflit avec la Loi (CERMICOL), le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) se fait le devoir de partager avec l’opinion publique les constats effectués audit centre ; et d’exiger des autorités étatiques la fin immédiate des traitements cruels, inhumains et…
For several months, the violent acts recorded in the communes of Carrefour and Gressier have captured the attention of the Haitian population. This situation, which has been brewing since 2021 and worsened in 2023 and 2024, has had enormous consequences on the lives of those living in the aforementioned communes in particular, and in the…
Mr Prime Minister The Circle of Reflections (CR), the National Episcopal Commission Justice and Peace (CE JILAP), NÈGÈS MAWON, the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (POHDH), and the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) feel it is their duty to share with you their positions on five (5) crucial issues that, if not addressed…
From May 6 to 27, 2024, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) conducted a survey on the functioning of the Haitian National Police (PNH). On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the police institution, the RNDDH proposes to share with all interested parties the results of the aforementioned survey, for which one hundred…
During the first quarter of 2024, the general human rights situation in Haiti remained very worrying. Attacks on life and property, as well as acts of violence, were perpetrated against the civilian population, who had been handed over to armed bandits by the state authorities. In addition, the West department plunged into chaos at the…
Since February 29, 2024, the two (2) major coalitions of armed gangs – G-9 an Fanmi e Alye and G-Pèp – grouped around a federation called “Viv Ansanm”, whose leader and spokesman is Jimmy CHERIZIER alias Barbecue, have been demonstrating their power in several communes in the West Department. The number of human and material…
For several years now, the Haitian population’s rights to life, security, physical and psychological integrity, freedom of movement and private property have been violated. These systematic and massive violations take the form, among other things, of massacres and armed attacks, the immediate consequences of which are the reconfiguration of territorial space and the acceptance of…
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck several municipalities in the departments of West, South-East and Nippes, causing enormous human and material losses. The population, devastated by this cataclysm, took refuge en masse in the streets, public places, churches and schools, as well as on empty lots, forming shelter…