(2025-03) Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Haiti: Key Recent Developments, June through November 2024

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) • 2025 • 82 pages

Summary — IJDH's periodic human rights and rule of law update covering June to November 2024 documents worsening armed-group violence, Transitional Presidential Council corruption, judicial dysfunction, humanitarian collapse and failures of the Multinational Security Support mission.

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Key Findings

Armed-group violence escalated despite the MSS deployment, with the Pont-Sonde massacre killing at least 50 people and coordinated Viv Ansanm attacks displacing more than 40,000 people in a single week. More than 5,000 people were killed since January 2024 and more than 700,000 were internally displaced. Four members of the Transitional Presidential Council were implicated in corruption scandals while the justice sector remained largely non-functional. About 40 percent of Haitians live in extreme poverty and more than 5.4 million face acute food insecurity, while the Dominican Republic launched a program to return 10,000 Haitians per week.

Full Description

This 82-page update in IJDH's periodic series on human rights and the rule of law in Haiti covers June through November 2024. It reports that insecurity and humanitarian crises deepened despite partial deployment of the Multinational Security Support mission (MSS), citing the Pont-Sonde massacre that killed at least 50 people, coordinated Viv Ansanm attacks that displaced more than 40,000 people in one week, and the forced halt of international air traffic. The report states that more than 5,000 people were killed since January and more than 700,000 were internally displaced. It documents corruption allegations implicating four members of the Transitional Presidential Council, chronic impunity, a largely non-functional justice sector, inhumane detention conditions, rising gender-based violence and child recruitment, and deteriorating economic and social rights, with about 40 percent of Haitians in extreme poverty and more than 5.4 million acutely food insecure. It also reviews migration pressures, including Dominican Republic removals, and criticizes international engagement patterns, including continued US-origin arms flows.

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Time Coverage

2024-06 — 2024-11

Keywords

human rights, rule of law, armed groups, Viv Ansanm, Pont-Sonde massacre, Transitional Presidential Council, MSS mission, displacement, corruption, impunity, food insecurity, deportations

Entities

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), Conseil presidentiel de transition (CPT), Viv Ansanm, Multinational Security Support mission (MMAS), BINUH, Police nationale d'Haiti (PNH), Pati Ayisyen Tet Kale (PHTK), OIM, OCHA, Dominican Republic, United States

Notes

IJDH periodic human rights and rule of law review series, French translation of the December 2024 update; ayitistats wave B