Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1988)

Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1988)

Summary: Written on the instruction of the OAS Permanent Council, which met on 29 June 1988 to consider the military coup in Haiti and adopted Resolution 502 requiring the Commission to investigate and report to the General Assembly. The mandate is unusual and the report records it in its opening pages.
Key Findings
Full Description

Written on the instruction of the OAS Permanent Council, which met on 29 June 1988 to consider the military coup in Haiti and adopted Resolution 502 requiring the Commission to investigate and report to the General Assembly. The mandate is unusual and the report records it in its opening pages.

The Commission has reported on Haiti since 1968 and this is one of eight country reports in that run, which is the longest continuous external human rights assessment of Haiti by a regional body. The symbols for the whole series are listed in footnote 22 of the 2022 report.

Published as multi-page HTML under cidh.oas.org/countryrep/, one file per chapter, with no PDF edition. Reassembled into one document with scripts/corpus/assemble_cidh_html_report.py, which takes the chapters in the order the index lists them.

Sectors
Geography
Time Coverage
1987-01 to 1988-12

How to cite

Organization of American States (OAS); Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1988), https://www.oas.org/es/cidh/informes/cch/pais.html

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Organization of American States (OAS)|Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)