In the context of ongoing protests, at least 83 people died in two peak moments during the year (February and mid-September to end of October), many at the hands of the police, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Amnesty International verified videos...

One year after painful and overtly racist images emerged from Del Rio, Texas, in which US Border Patrol officials mounted on horseback used excessive force against Black Haitians asylum seekers invoking associations with slavery, this report details the on-going arbitrary detention, mass expulsions...

Between 19 September and 10 November, the US government sent nearly 9.000 Haitian migrants and asylum seekers to Haiti, largely without providing access to the US asylum system or protection screenings. These mass expulsions by the US government were followed by an increase in deportations of...

As the political and economic situation continues to deteriorate in Haiti, tens of thousands of Haitians are moving across the Americas in search of safety. This briefing illustrates that countries are limiting access to international protection and failing to shield Haitians from a range of human...

Emmanuel’s* dreams may seem humble, but they are not so different from those of millions of our planet’s inhabitants. “To get a job to help my wife and children. And to support my family back in Haiti,” he tells me, in a shelter in Mexico City. “We left in search of a better life for […]

Haiti’s acceptance of recommendations to ratify the UN Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is significant in a situation where tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent born in the neighbouring Dominican Republic have been rendered...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Haiti in November 2016. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made in its UPR in 2011, noting that while Haiti has taken some steps to address concerns raised in the previous review, more...

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Dominican and the Haitian authorities, as well as international organizations and donors, need to respect the commitments they initially made and the obligations they have under international human rights law in order to ensure that Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent are not...

The current critical political situation in Haiti should not be used as an excuse to deny justice to the victims of human rights violations during the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

Five years after the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, Amnesty International is seriously concerned at the failure of the United Nations to ensure the victims’ human rights, including their right to a remedy.

Amnesty International is writing to you to highlight some human rights issues that our organisation believes your government should address as a matter of priority. These include ensuring the right to freedom of peaceful assembly; protecting human rights defenders; ensuring the independence of the...

Five years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, durable housing solutions remain out of reach for hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Although forced evictions from displacement camps decreased in 2014, forced evictions in the context of reconstruction and infrastructure development...