The coordinated armed attack on Mirebalais during the night of March 30 to 31, 2025, carried out by the 400 Mawozo and the Canaan-based Taliban gangs, led respectively by Wilson JOSEPH, alias Lanmò san Jou, and Jeff LAROSE, alias Jeff Gwo Lwa, resulted in the fall of two key communes in Haiti’s Centre Department: Mirebalais and Saut-d’Eau.…
En décembre 2024, en janvier et en février 2025, trois (3) massacres ont été perpétrés respectivement à Wharf Jérémie, à Kenscoff et à Chateaublond, des zones localisées dans le département de l’Ouest. Ces épisodes de violence ont tous occasionné des pertes humaines et matérielles incommensurables : de part et d’autre, des personnes ont été assassinées dont…
On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck several communes in the departments of the West, Southeast, and Nippes, resulting in the deaths of 222,517 people and the disappearance of 300,000 others. The material losses were also immense. Hundreds of thousands of homes collapsed, forcing the population to take refuge in the streets, public…
L’année judiciaire 2023-2024 a été rudement frappée par l’insécurité et la crise sociopolitique en cours qui aggravent le dysfonctionnement de la Justice haïtienne depuis quelque temps : des juridictions de première instance n’ont réalisé aucune audience criminelle, des infrastructures judiciaires ont été attaquées par les bandits armés et d’autres ont dû fermer leurs portes en raison…
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…
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…