Repub­lic of Haiti
Sub­mis­sion to the United Nations
Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review

12th Ses­sion of the Work­ing Group on the UPR
Human Rights Coun­cil
[Octo­ber 3 — 14, 2011]

Crim­i­nal Jus­tice
Down­load a copy: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/UPR-Prisons-SR-English-Final.pdf
…

By Deb­o­rah Son­tag and Wal­ter Bog­danich, New York Times

The entrance to Les Cayes Prison and the police sta­tion, in Les Cayes, Haiti. Ángel Franco/The New York Times …

Inter­na­tional Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross
Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – The Inter­na­tional Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just fin­ished rebuild­ing and refur­bish­ing the civil­ian prison in …

New York Times
An inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in Les Cayes, Haiti, was formally …

By Alice Speri, Women’s Inter­na­tional Perspective

• Out­side the National Pen­i­ten­tiary in Port-au-Prince. Pho­to­graph cour­tesy of the author. •

Eleven-year-old Car­men Suze quar­reled with a …