On August 14, 2021, around 8:30 am, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the Ritcher scale hit three (3) departments on the country’s southern coast, namely, the Nippes, the South and the Grand’Anse…
On the night of June 29-30, 2021, at Delmas 32, Christ-Roi and Avenue N prolonged, armed individuals fired on at least twenty (20) people, killing nineteen (19) of them and wounding at least one (1) other…
Le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) a appris qu’en date du 17 juin 2021, le juge d’instruction Rénord Régis a été contraint de remettre à la Direction logistique de la Police Nationale d’Haiti (PNH) le fusil Galil de calibre 556 qui avait été confié le 25 septembre 2020 à l’agent affecté à…
June 12, 2021, brings back the 26th anniversary of the National Police of Haiti (PNH). On this occasion, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) shares with the public its observations and concerns about the functioning of this institution, so crucial for the country. One of its missions is to protect the…
Since August 2020, the Bel-Air neighborhood has been under great stress. Although there was some calm at the beginning of the current year, hostilities resumed in March 2021. Similarly, Cité Soleil, ravaged in 2020 by armed attacks that lasted several months, has once again attracted attention since January 2021 because of the hegemonic rivalries that…
The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) Is particularly concerned about the systematic human rights violations in the country and the uncertain development of the general situation which seems to be completely elusive to the State authorities.
We, organizations for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society, duly represented, engaged in the struggle for the emergence in Haiti of a rule of law, stripped of the slags of corruption, blind violence and official impunity, We have the honor to present the following:
Since March 31, 2021, information relayed by the media and circulating on social networks reports of new armed attacks recorded in the Bel-Air neighborhood. Several of the victims met by the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) reported on the circumstances of these attacks, the seriousness of which particularly attracted the attention of the organization. It therefore…
On February 25, 2021, the Croix-des-Bouquets civil prison was the scene of bloody events that resulted in the death of several people and the escape of hundreds of detainees…
The Constitution of 1987, considered by many as the most democratic constitution of Haiti’s entire history, was approved by referendum on March 29th, 1987. The reception by the population of this new mother law crystallized the main demands of the Haitian people to the fall of the thirty-year dictatorship of Duvalier. It heralded a new…