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Haiti - Social : Inhumane living conditions for Haitians back from DR 18/09/2015 11:03:36
"[...] I have focused my attention during this visit particularly on the situation of the Haitian people or of Haitian descent returning from the Dominican Republic. I went to the municipality of Anse-à-Pitre, on the southern border between the two countries. There there are approximately 2,500 people in five camps, living in very precarious conditions: in cardboard and plastic tents, no food, no drinking water and no health infrastructure, which is a risk for the spread of disease such as cholera. The camp that I visited had two latrines for about 500 people. Children and youth do not have the opportunity to study. Some residents produce coal by taking the wood nearby, whose deforestation is obvious. There are no health services and the majority of people have no identity documents. The local mayor and a committee composed of non-governmental organizations and aid agencies do what they can to help this population. There is a plan to transfer them to their places of origin in Haiti and give them a small initial grant of survival. It would be necessary to make this move faster because the rainy season has started and the tents will have serious difficulties to resist water. These people say they have not been expelled by the Dominican authorities, they define themselves as volunteers IDPs but 'under pressure' because they were afraid of being deported from the Dominican Republic, because the government announced that the persons in an irregular situation would be taken out of the country after June 17, 2015. While recognizing the right of the Dominican authorities to control migration in its territory, I noted that the Haitian authorities require a protocol between the two countries so that the names and status of people who would be deported are known in sufficient advance. I also appeal to the Haitian authorities to take urgent measures to ensure that the persons from the Dominican Republic, either deported or transferred 'under pressure' have access to health services, education and sanitation, as well as food and drinking water. At the same time, I agree with the opinions expressed yesterday by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the opening sessions of the Council of Human Rights in Geneva, who said, I quote 'his office continues to monitor deportations of the Dominican Republic of Haitian people' and said that he 'continues to make an emergency call to the authorities to ensure that those who ask to remain validly be allowed to do so, and that all deportations are made in accordance with international human rights standards'" HL/ HaitiLibre
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