Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1990)

Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1990)

Summary: A report covering the end of the military period before the 1990 elections. Its introduction reviews the Commission's attention to Haiti from the start of its work, through the governments of François Duvalier from 1957 to 1971 and Jean-Claude Duvalier from 1971 to 1986, and the 1979 special report that followed the on-site visit.
Key Findings
Full Description

A report covering the end of the military period before the 1990 elections. Its introduction reviews the Commission's attention to Haiti from the start of its work, through the governments of François Duvalier from 1957 to 1971 and Jean-Claude Duvalier from 1971 to 1986, and the 1979 special report that followed the on-site visit.

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
1989-01 to 1990-12

How to cite

Organization of American States (OAS); Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti (1990), 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)