Showing articles 1 - 20 of 41 (sorted by date).
| 1 |  | 2008-06-18: U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur Views Haiti by Relief Web |  |
| Louis Joinet, independent expert, gives his last report and closes 40 years with the U.N. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2007-03-07: Few Human Rights Improvements in 2006 by State Department | |
| Despite improvements the government's human rights record remained poor. The government committed no political killings or disappearances and held no political prisoners. But prison conditions and judicial practices were seriously subpar. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 |  | 2007-02-03: The Terrible Truth of Martissant by Michael Deibert, author of Notes from the Last Testament | |
| All the gangs there are up to their elbows in blood-letting; don't be fooled by the propaganda. They cloak their barbarity in the thinnest veneer of ideology. | Rating: 3 |
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| 4 |  | 2007-02-03: More Than Five Hundred Bodies Found on Port-au-Prince Streets by National Bishops' Conference for Justice and Peace |  |
| Au cours de l’année passée nous avons enregistré 539 victimes mortelles de la violence à travers les rues de la capitale. Trois mois étaient particulièrement violents : les mois de janvier, août et
décembre 2006. | Rating: 3 |
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| 5 |  | 2007-01-22: Elections Went Well, but Entrenched Lawlessness Remains by Human Rights Watch | |
| Release of Yvon Neptune may have been warranted by failure to bring him to trial, but the atrocities he was accused of remain uninvestigated and unpunished. | Rating: 3 |
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| 6 |  | 2007-01-12: In Plain English: An Asylum Seeker's Assault on the Church by National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) and Plate-forme des Organisations Haïtiennes de Droits Humains (POHDH) | |
| Former Lavalas deputy Jean Candio, portrayed as a political prisoner by fringe groups in Canada, is known in Haiti for his rough tactics with churchgoers. He is now seeking "asylum" in Canada. New English translation by RNDDH. | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 |  | 2006-09-12: Human Rights, Not Politics, Should Be Priority by Michael Deibert, on Alterpresse | |
| It is high time that rape and killings be denounced without regard to who is committing them, and that foreign lawyers and researchers stop trying to shield the guilty from accountability. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 | | 2006-07-11: Denouncing Violence in Carrefour-Feuilles by Family Health Association and National Human Rights Network | |
| Gangleaders secretly recommencing their operations since June 3-4. We're glad to see police at the sanatorium, would like to see U.N. as well. Arrest and sentence the leaders of the armed groups, don't appease them in the name of compromise. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 | | 2006-03-08: Haiti's Human-Rights Record Remained Poor in 2005 by State Department | |
| Annual human-rights report cites arbitrary killings and arrests by Haitian police, but also nineteen killings of police mainly by Aristide gang members. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 | | 2005-09-30: Remembering the Bloody Coup of September 30 by Marie Yolène Gilles, RNDDH | |
| Haiti's suffering continues. Impunity reigns. Those responsible for the Raboteau massacre are set free. A former assailant is running for president. Criminals and gang members associated with the Lavalas party have launched Operation Baghdad. | Rating: 5 |
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| 11 |  | 2005-08-24: Foreigners Fishing in Haiti's Troubled Waters by Sabine Manigat, in Le Matin | |
| The police and U.N. have made tentative progress against the terror. Amnesty International, Medicins sans Frontieres, and International Crisis Group undermine this progress with unfounded charges and a defeatist attitude. English translation above. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2005-08-24: Report on Violence by Haitian Conference of Bishops | |
| We count 864 killed 2002-2004, 1151 since then, but these are only the ones that can be documented. Stop the violence. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 | | 2005-08-15: Speaking Out Against Impunity by RNDDH, Haiti Human Rights Network | |
| Chamblain is well known for his implication in the murder of Antoine Izmery, the Cité Soleil massacre in 1993, and the Raboteau massacre in Gonaïves in 1994. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 | | 2005-08-05: Amnesty's Report a Pro-Aristide Parti Pris by Sabine Manigat, in Le Matin | |
| For example, Amnesty slammed interim regime for not cracking down on ex-military, but when the regime killed ex-military leader Ravix, Amnesty criticized this, too, for disrupting "unity among this group over accepting to disarm." | Rating: 5 |
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| 15 |  | 2005-08-02: Aristide Gangs Alleged to Kill Forty Civilians After U.N. Operation by Haitian human-rights organizations on Radio Metropole | |
| Charges and counter-charges fly on aftermath of U.N. raid that killed gang-leader Dread Wilme. Appears U.N. killed several civilians screening gangleaders, gangs then killed dozens more after U.N. left. | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 |  | 2005-07-28: Disarmament Delayed, Justice Denied by Amnesty International | |
| Webmaster's warning: This Amnesty report is factually weak on major issues including ex-military, Aristide gangs, and MINUSTAH. See analysis by Sabine Manigat elsewhere on this web page. | Rating: 1 |
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| 17 |  | 2005-07-25: Haiti Eyes by M. Catherine Maternowska in the New York Times | |
| A medical anthropologist's recount of a terrifying day. | Rating: 3 |
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| 18 | | 2005-07-25: Gerard Jean-Juste a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International | |
| Rev. Jean-Juste is a prisoner of conscience and victim of arbitrary arrest. Awaiting trial on
apparently trumped-up charges. (See Sabine Manigat's analysis of Amnesty reporting elsewhere on this web page.) | Rating: 1 |
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| 19 | | 2005-07-15: Blaming the Victim by Amnesty International | |
| Amnesty International blames interim government for violence in Haiti. No mention of "Operation Baghdad," a terrorist campaign instigated by the ousted president.
See commentary by Sabine Manigat elsewhere on this web page. | Rating: 1 |
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| 20 | | 2005-06-30: Human Rights Situation Is Dire As Elections Near by Haiti Human Rights Network (RNDDH) | |
| Today Aristide supporters commit worse atrocities than their former military oppressors. Government is indifferent to security situation. U.N. force is passive. Human-rights situation is dire, threatening elections. | Rating: 5 |
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