Sites for internally displaced people: the RNDDH calls on the Haitian state to bring this situation to an end
- Sixteen years after the earthquake, the sites built for the homeless are still in use.
- They now hold both earthquake victims and people displaced by armed violence.
- The network asks that displaced people be given a house or a return to their home region, according to what each wants.
- It asks for psychological assistance and a protection plan for women, girls and people with disabilities.
The anniversary is the report's frame: sixteen years since an earthquake that changed the face of the Ouest, and the sites built then for the homeless are still there, now holding two populations. The network sets out what it found in them and asks the state to bring the situation to an end. Its recommendations are that displaced people be given a route out, whether through housing or a return to their home region according to what each of them wants, that psychological assistance be provided, and that a protection plan be put in place for women, girls and people living with a disability.
How to cite
National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), 2026, Sites for internally displaced people: the RNDDH calls on the Haitian state to bring this situation to an end, https://web.rnddh.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1-RapM-Sites-de-Deplaces.es-Internes-12Jan2026.pdf
- Rights holder
- Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH)