Reports & Newsletters

The Increasing violence in the West and Artibonite departments: RNDDH denounces the complicity of the CSPN

Since the beginning of August 2023, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has noted an increase in violence in several areas of the West and Artibonite departments, including Carrefour, Carrefour-Feuilles, Croix-des-Bouquets, Delmas, La Croix Périsse, Savien, Solino, etc., resulting in numerous murders and gunshot wounds. Concerned by this situation, RNDDH wishes to alert public…

Vingt-huitième anniversaire de l’institution policière: Le RNDDH dénonce les conditions de travail des agents-tes de la PNH

Le 12 juin 2023 ramène le vingt-huitième (28ème) anniversaire de la Police Nationale d’Haïti (PNH). Le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH), qui a passé l’année 2022-2023 à monitorer le travail des agents-tes de l’institution policière, estime de son devoir de partager avec l’opinion publique, les différentes remarques faites au cours de cette…

The reign of Prime Minister Ariel HENRY or The fury of the armed gangs

Since the advent to power of the de facto Prime Minister Ariel HENRY, the security situation in the country has been deteriorating continuously and armed gangs are multiplying exponentially. Massacres, raids and armed attacks have been recorded everywhere, particularly in the departments of the West and Artibonite – the two (2) largest geographic departments in…

Remarques sur la réalisation des audiences criminelles dans certaines juridictions de première instance du pays.

L’année judiciaire 2021-2022 s’est clôturée sur un bilan extrêmement maigre, les cours et tribunaux du pays n’ayant que très peu fonctionné en raison notamment des arrêts de travail du personnel judiciaire et de la situation sécuritaire préoccupante en Haïti. Ce ralentissement dans les travaux judiciaires a eu pour conséquences une augmentation exponentielle du nombre de…

Arms and ammunition trafficking : Employees of ONA and OFATMA arrested by the DCPJ

Since April 2022, the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) has been investigating a case of arms and ammunition trafficking, in which three (3) employees of the National Old Age Insurance Office (ONA), one (1) agent of the Haitian National Police (PNH) and one (1) employee of the Office of Work Accident, Sickness and…

RNDDH position on the serial murders of PNH officers

Since the beginning of 2023, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has been concerned about the obvious and accelerated deterioration of the country’s overall security situation…

The file of Sherlson Sanon: RNDDH Clarifications

The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) learned that on January 20, 2023, Sherlson SANON was tried by the Criminal Court of Port-au-Prince sitting without the assistance of a jury, for the association of wrongdoers and slanderous denunciations. He was sentenced to one (1) year’s imprisonment. And, since he had already spent in prison the…

Tentative de libération au Parquet de Port-au-Prince: Le RNDDH exige l’ouverture d’une enquête sur le comportement du magistrat Jeanty Souvenir

Selon des informations parvenues au Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH), le 11 novembre 2022, le substitut commissaire du gouvernement près le Tribunal de première instance de Port-au-Prince, Maître Jeanty Souvenir, a tenté de libérer Amos Edmond et Signoly Edmond, deux (2) inculpés poursuivis pour assassinat alors que leur dossier est pendant par…

Dysfunction of the judicial and penal systems: RNDDH calls for respect for rights to a judicial guarantee

During the judicial year 2021-2022, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) monitored the functioning of the courts and tribunals, and prisons of the country.  In addition, meetings were held with heads of jurisdiction, prison officials, and prison administration authorities…

Seizure of illicit objects at the customs of Port-au-Prince: RNDDH demands a full investigation of this issue

On July 14, 2022, weapons, and ammunition as well as other illicit objects presumably covered by the exemptions granted by the Haitian government to the Episcopal Church of Haiti, were seized at the customs of Port-au-Prince…