Multimédias

UN urges Dominican Republic to ensure citizens of Haitian origin do not lose nationality

The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of the Dominican Republic to take all necessary measures to ensure that citizens of Haitian origin are not deprived of their right to nationality in light of a recent court ruling.

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Last week the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that the children of undocumented migrants who have been in the Dominican Republic and… Continue reading →

Prolonged pretrial detention creates overcrowding in Haitian prisons

Senator Hyppolite Mélius, who chairs the Commission on Human Rights and Anti-Corruption in the Haitian Parliament, is currently undertaking a tour of Haitian prisons. His objective: to make an inventory and advocate for the improvement of prison conditions. In late September, and accompanied by representatives of the Section of Human Rights of MINUSTAH, the Senator visited the civil prison in Pétionville, home to women only.… Continue reading →

Cité Soleil welcomes its own police brigade on wheels

After Croix-des-Bouquets, Pétionville and Delmas, it’s the turn of Cité Soleil to host the fourth Brigade on Bicycles – a unit of the Police Nationale d’Haïti (PNH ), whose mission is to get closer to the population.

“Officers on bicycles can patrol Cité Soleil’s ‘corridors’ where access is inaccessible to vehicles,” says Michelle Marie Dossous, a resident of this volatile neighbourhood in the Haitian capital,… Continue reading →