Report on Alleged Human Rights Violations and Abuses During the Attacks in the Bel-Air Neighbourhood, Port-au-Prince, 4-6 November 2019

This February 2020 joint report by BINUH and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) investigates the attacks carried out in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince from 4 to 6 November 2019. Based on field investigation, it reconstructs the context and course of the attacks, documents the killings, injuries, and destruction of property inflicted on residents, and examines allegations that state representatives were involved in or facilitated the violence. The report highlights the absence of any intervention by the Haitian National Police during the attacks and reviews the response, or lack of response, of the Haitian authorities in the aftermath. It sets out the resulting human rights concerns, including the state's obligations to protect the population, investigate, and hold perpetrators to account, and issues recommendations to the authorities. The report is an early entry in the series of UN human rights investigations into gang attacks on Port-au-Prince neighborhoods that would recur through the subsequent years.