Summary:

This report details how the human rights situation in Haiti has further unravelled, particularly in the Haitian-Dominican Republic border area since the January's earthquake struck.

The report is in French.

http://www.crin.org/docs/AUDIENCE 2010 A PRESENTER.doc

Le Regroupement des Citoyens pour la Protection des Droits Humains (RECIPRODH) focused its report on the area of Ouanaminthe, which is located in the border region in the north-east of the country. Many children from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic travel to Ouanaminthe on market days to sell their wares. Acts of violence have reportedly increased in the aftermath of the earthquake, partly as a result the exodus from the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, to provinces such as Ouanaminthe.

RECIPRODH detailed a number of specific cases of violence against children in Ouanaminthe, particularly against girls, including trafficking, child prostitution and kidnappings, saying that the perpetrators had not been brought to justice. RECIPRODH explained that the country's justice system is slow, ineffective and corrupt, and that relations between the police and judiciary were frayed. It urged the Commission to make recommendations to the State to improve the children's rights situation in Haiti in general and the north of the country in particular.

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