Second RNDDH report on the general situation of the country after the earthquake of 12 January 2010

The report begins before the earthquake, with eighty per cent of the population below the poverty line, corruption described as a system, an environment degraded by repeated storms and floods, an electoral crisis already forming around the composition of the electoral council and its exclusion of parties, and a security situation that had improved with police and MINUSTAH patrols. It then sets out the damage. The Direction de la Protection Civile counted 222,517 dead, 250,000 injured, 300,000 missing and 597,801 people displaced to the provinces, of whom 160,000 reached the Haitian-Dominican border zone; at least 450,000 children were living in camps, some orphaned of both parents, and at least 1,053 camps had been listed. More than half the prison population escaped, the number falling from 8,535 on 12 January to 3,661 on 25 February.

The Ministry of Justice, the Port-au-Prince palais de justice and the peace courts of the southern section of Port-au-Prince and of Gressier were destroyed outright, and nine courts of first instance, fourteen peace courts and the special labour tribunal were damaged. The network then works through education, health and the state university hospital, post-earthquake vaccination, people living with HIV or tuberculosis, the police, the prison service, the condition of each civil prison, the courts, child trafficking, life inside the camps including insecurity and sexual violence, and the coordination of humanitarian aid. Its judgement of the international response is that it was needed because the state could not cope and that it disregarded the humanitarian charter and minimum standards for disaster response: dropping food kits to victims was an affront to their dignity, and distributing sacks of rice to everyone ignored what people actually eat.