Le 12 juin 2021 ramène le 26ème anniversaire de la Police Nationale d’Haïti (PNH). A cette occasion, le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) partage avec l’opinion publique ses constats et inquiétudes relatifs au fonctionnement de cette institution, tellement importante pour le pays, et dont l’une des missions est de protéger les vies…
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…
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…
From January to December 2020, the MOÏSE / JOUTHE administration adopted thirty-eight (38) decrees on such diverse and unexpected subjects as: the professional lease (May 11, 2020), the regulation of leasing operations (May 12, 2020), the reform of matrimonial property regimes (May 13, 2020), security law (May 14, 2020), the Haitian Penal Code (June 24,…
In recent years, several cases of disappearance of the corpus delicti, of exhibits and even of personal belongings seized or confiscated by the judicial police and transmitted to the authorities of the Justice, were registered in the court of first instance of Port-au-Prince. However, the attention of the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) was…
From January to October 2020, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) and its regional structures monitored the general functioning of detention centers throughout the country. And, during the month of October 2020, a specific study was carried out on the activities implemented in prison to help the social reintegration of ex-prisoners. Today, the RNDDH…
Protests and anti-government demonstrations, lockdown operations, precarious security situation, outbreak of Covid-19 in Haiti followed by repeated work stoppages of judicial staff: many difficulties punctuated the legal year 2019-2020, making it a very meagre year in terms of balance sheet…
Questioned by the latest armed attacks recorded in Cité Soleil, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) launched an investigation from June 30 to August 8, 2020, the results of which are presented in this report for which, the organisation met with police authorities, judicial authorities, notables of Cité Soleil as well as 108 victims…
From May 23 to 27, 2020, automatic weapons were fired continuously in several underprivileged areas of Port-au-Prince including Pont Rouge, Chancerelles, Wharf Jérémie, Fort Dimanche, La Saline and Nan Tokyo. Several kilometers away, smoke was also seen, and the tension in these areas was palpable…
For some time now, the Unit for the Fight Against Corruption (ULCC), under the pretext of investigating facts of corruption, carries out highly publicized actions, summons citizens, carries out arrests, launches research notices and likes to equate his investigative work with a judicial investigation…
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