Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of Haiti to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/HTI/2-3)

Haiti signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child on January 26, 1990 and ratified it on December 23, 1994. After its initial report of April 3, 2001, considered by the Committee on June 22, 2002, this combined second and third report presents data for 2002 to 2013 and follows the structure of the 2010 reporting guidelines: general measures of implementation, the definition of the child, general principles, civil rights and freedoms, family environment, health, education and special protection measures.

The report states that national coverage of birth registration is estimated at 81 percent and that registry offices operate in 137 of the 140 communes. It cites the 2012 Fifth Mortality, Morbidity and Service Utilization Survey (EMMUS V) for a net primary school attendance rate of 77 percent and for 86 percent of children subjected to some form of psychological or physical violence. It also sets out the constraints on following the Committee's recommendations, including the effects of Hurricanes Isaac and Sandy in 2012. The document was issued without formal editing; the corpus also holds the Committee's concluding observations.